Keynote Schedule

Keynote Schedule

Monday September 10

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

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

Tuesday September 11

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

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

Wednesday September 12

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"

Thursday September 13

0830 - 0930 Morning Plenary - Luis Amaral "From the three Rs to the three Cs: Complexity, Creativity, Collaboration"