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2012 LTER All Scientists Meeting Agenda

2012 LTER ALL SCIENTISTS MEETING AGENDA

The Unique Role of the LTER Network in the Anthropocene: Collaborative Science Across Scales

YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park

Saturday - September 8

Travel day for LNO Staff, Information Managers, Grad Students, Education Representatives, and Executive Board

1700 - 1900 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room

1900 - Mixer - Convention Center Assembly Hall

Sunday - September 9

General Travel Day for meeting participants

0700 - 0830 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room

0830 - 1200 Ancillary Working Group Session 1

0830 - 1200 Information Managers Meeting - Session I (invitation only)  - Longs Peak,  Diamond East+West

0830 - 1700 Graduate Student Symposium - Ruesch Auditorium

0830 - 1700 Education Representatives Meeting - Wind River A

1000 - 1030 Coffee break - Convention Center Assembly Hall

1200 - 1300 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room

1300 - 1700 Ancillary Working Group Session 2

1300 - 1700 Information Managers Meeting - Session II (public session)

1300 - 1900 Executive Board Meeting and Dinner (invitation only) - Wind River C and Pine Dining Room

1300 - 2000 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup and "Wednesday Field Trip" Ticket Sales - Administration Building

1600 - 1900 Poster set up - Convention Center Assembly Hall

1730 - 1900 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room

1930 - 2030 Site Science Lightning Plenary (2 slides + 2 minutes / site) - Ruesch Auditorium

2030 - 0000 Evening mixer and informal poster presentation - Pizza and light snacks for late arrivals - Convention Center Assembly Hall

Monday September 10

0700 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room

0700 - 1200 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup and "Wednesday Field Trip" Ticket Sales - Administration Building

0700 - 1000 Poster Set up - Convention Center Assembly Hall

0830 - 1200 Morning Plenary - Ruesch Auditorium

0830 - 0900 Welcome - Scott Collins and Robert Waide

0900 - 1000 Theme Plenary: Erle C. Ellis, Ecology in the Anthropocene: Observing, Understanding, and Embracing Human Nature

1000 - 1030 Coffee break - Convention Center Assembly Hall

1030 - 1130 NSF Plenary: John Wingfield - Assistant Director for Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation, Vision of a Strategic Innovation for Biological Sciences

1145 - 1200 Group Photo - Outside - location TBD

1200 - 1330 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room

1200 - 1330 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 1

1330 - 1700 ASM Registration, Registration material pickup - Administration Building

1330 -1530 - Afternoon Working Group Session 1

1530 - Break - Convention Center Assembly Hall

1600 - 1800 - Afternoon Working Group Session 2

1800 -1930 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room

1800 -1930 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 2

1930 - 2030 NSF Town Hall / LTER Discussion - Saran Twombly and NSF Representatives - Ruesch Auditorium

2030 - 0000 Evening Science Poster Session and Mixer - Presentation of SITE related Posters - Convention Center Assembly Hall

Tuesday September 11

0700 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room

0700 - 1700 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup - Administration Building

0830 Morning Plenary: Robert Kates, Does LTER All Science include Sustainability Science? - Ruesch Auditorium

0930 Break - Convention Center Assembly Hall

1000 - 1200 Morning Working Group Session 3

1200 - 1330 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room

1200 - 1330 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 3

1330 - 1530 Afternoon Working Group Session 4

1530 Break - Convention Center Assembly Hall

1600 - 1800 Free time, Ancillary Working Group Session 3

1800 - 1930 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room

1800 - 1930 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 4

1930 - 2030 Evening plenary: Steve Lansing, The Balinese Would Like a Word: Implications of Alternate Steady States in Lakes and Rice Paddies - Ruesch Auditorium

2030 - 0000 Evening Poster Session and Mixer - Presentation of EVEN numbered Posters - Convention Center Assembly Hall

Wednesday September 12

0700 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room

0700 - 1700 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup - Administration Building

0830 Morning plenary - Ruesch Auditorium

0830 Morning plenary 1 - Michael P. Nelson, The Value of, and Challenges for Long Term Ecological Research

0900 Morning plenary 2 - Elizabeth Borer, Emergent properties of cooperative science: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

0930 Break

1000 - 1200 Morning Working Group Session 5

1200 - 1330 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room

1200 - 1330 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 5

1330 - 1800 Free time - Ad-hoc meetings, a choice of field trips - arranged trips to Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park and surrounding attractions, etc.

1330 - 1800 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 6

1700 - 1830 International LTER Mixer (Open to all ASM Attendees!) - Convention Center Assembly Hall Foyer

1800 - 1930 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room

1800 - 1930 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 7

1730 - 1930 LTER Lead PI Meeting - Pine Dining Room

1930 - 0000 Evening Poster Session and Mixer - Presentation of Odd numbered Posters - Convention Center Assembly Hall

Thursday September 13

0700 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room

0700 - 1700 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup - Administration Building

0830 - 0930 Morning Plenary - Luís Amaral, From the three Rs to the three Cs: Complexity, Creativity, Collaboration - Ruesch Auditorium

0930 Break

1000 - 1200 Morning Working Group Session 6

1200 - 1330 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room

1200 - 1330 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 8

1330 - 1530 Afternoon Working Group Session 7

1530 Break - Convention Center Assembly Hall

1600 - 1800 Plenary - Overview from Working Groups and concluding remarks - Ruesch Auditorium

1800 - 1930 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room

1800 - 1930 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 9

1930 - 0000 Entertainment Night and awards - Longhouse Gym

Friday September 14

DEPARTURES

 
 
Background Photo by: Nicole Hansen - Jornada (JRN) LTER