Call for Organized Oral Session Proposals for 93rd ESA Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 3-8, 2008

Call for Organized Oral Session Proposals
93rd ESA Annual Meeting

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
August 3 - 8, 2008
Call Open: July 2 - September 14, 2007

We invite proposals for organized oral sessions for the 93rd ESA Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held from August 3 8, 2007 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin at the Midwest Airline Center.

Organized oral sessions are organized around a specific topic with most of the speakers invited by the organizer. These sessions are distinguished from symposia in that 1) there is less emphasis on breadth of appeal and overall synthesis; 2) they may be comprised largely of related case studies; 3) talks are set at 15 minutes each, with 5 minutes following for discussion (as in contributed oral sessions); and 4) at least 2 time slots out of the 10 available in an organized oral session are reserved for placing related talks from the contributed abstracts by the Program Chair. Organized oral sessions are limited to half-day sessions (3 hours long); full-day organized oral sessions will not be considered. Proposals may be from any area of ecology, but those that relate to the overall theme Enhancing Ecological Thought by Linking Research and Education are especially encouraged. We also welcome proposals that explore interdisciplinary connections with areas of social and natural science outside of ecology or that relate to ecological education at any level.

Applications must be received on or before Friday, September 14, 2007 . You must use the http://eco.confex.com/eco/2008/cfp.cgi that will be available on the ESA website (www.esa.org/milwaukee ) as of July 2, 2007 .

Do not send proposals to ESA Headquarters.

[MESSAGE TRUNCATED] Full description available at the URL given below.

For further information consult the ESA website (www.esa.org/milwaukee ) or contact the Program Chair or Program Assistant (see below).

* Please note that a separate call will be announced later this fall for Workshops and Special Sessions for the 2008 Annual Meeting.*

Program Chair
Louis Gross
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
569 Dabney Hall- 1416 Circle Dr.
Knoxville, TN 37996-1610

Phone: (865) 974-4295
Fax: (865) 974-6042
Email: gross@tiem.utk.edu