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Please note that this program is subject to change without notice at anytime. Times are AEDT (Sydney / Melbourne / Canberra time zone)
ESA2020 Program at a Glance
Monday 30 November 2020
| 9:00 – 10:00 | PLENARY SESSION ONE | |||
| Conference Opening & Acknowledgement of Country | ||||
| President’s Address | ||||
| Indigenous Keynote presentation: Vanessa Cavanagh | ||||
| 10:00 – 12:00 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Temperature Extremes: impacts, resilience and mitigation (Thermal Tolerance) | SYMPOSIUM: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge 10th Anniversary Symposium | SYMPOSIUM: Soil microbial responses to climate extremes: mechanisms, patterns, interactions | OPEN FORUM – Urban Ecology (1) | |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Take a break (Monday) | |||
| 12:15 – 13:45 | Post Graduate Session | |||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Networking – Diversity at ESA | |||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunchtime Discussion 1: Teaching ecology in unusual times | |||
| 14:00 – 15:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Temperature Extremes: impacts, resilience and mitigation (Thermal Extremes) | SYMPOSIUM: Managing a cultural landscape and building resilience in a new world reality | OPEN FORUM – Speed talk (1) | OPEN FORUM – Global Ecology | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon refresh break (Monday) | |||
| 16:00 – 17:45 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Temperature Extremes: impacts, resilience and mitigation (Animals / Management and mitigation) | OPEN FORUM – Wildlife Ecology | Open Forum – Methods and Monitoring (1) | ||
| 18:00 – 18:45 |
ESA AGM |
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| 19:00 – 20:00 |
ESA Queer Mixer |
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Tuesday 1 December 2020
| 8:00 – 08:45
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International Networking Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 – 10:00 | PLENARY SESSION TWO | |||
| Keynote presentation: ESA Next Generation Ecologist Award presentation: Laura Brannelly | ||||
| 10:00 – 12:00 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Perspectives on a changing landscape of fire (1) | SYMPOSIUM: Behavioural response to ecological challenges (1) | OPEN FORUM – Restoration Ecology | Open forum – species distribution | |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Take a break (Tuesday) | |||
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunchtime workshop 2. Early Career Ecology: How do you write a job application during a pandemic? So glad you (m)asked…
Lunchtime workshop 3. Sharing your data through TERN Data Infrastructure |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Perspectives on a changing landscape of fire (2) | SYMPOSIUM: Behavioural response to ecological challenges (2) | OPEN FORUM – Marine and Freshwater | OPEN FORUM – Conservation Biology (1) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Quick refresh break (Tuesday) | |||
| 16:00 – 17:45 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 6 | |||
| OPEN FORUM – Methods and Monitoring (2) | SYMPOSIUM Approaches for detailing threats, actions and management costs for threatened species recovery across broad scales | OPEN FORUM – Functional Ecology | ||
| 18:00 – 19:30 |
Barbara Rice Memorial Poster Session (click here to view poster abstracts) |
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Wednesday 2 December 2020
| 9:00 – 10:00 | PLENARY SESSION THREE | |||
| Keynote presentation: Dr Belinda Medlyn | ||||
| 10:00 – 12:00 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 7 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Ecological Extremes in Antarctica, mechanisms of resilience and recovery | SYMPOSIUM: Windows into resilience and recovery: technological advances and the acquisition of data in ecological systems (1) | SYMPOSIUM: Citizen Science: a tool for ecology, conservation and science communication (1) | SYMPOSIUM: Tree dieback in Australian Ecosystems (1) | |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Take a break (Wednesday) | |||
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunchtime workshop 4. Sci-what?! How to communicate your science effectively | |||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunchtime workhop 5. ecoEd – training for next generation researchers and practitioners in ecological and environmental problem solving | |||
| 14:00 – 15:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Wetland management and restoration in human-dominated landscapes | SYMPOSIUM: Windows into resilience and recovery: technological advances and the acquisition of data in ecological systems (2) | SYMPOSIUM: Citizen Science: a tool for ecology, conservation and science communication (2) | SYMPOSIUM: Tree dieback in Australian Ecosystems (2) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Quick refresh break (Wednesday) | |||
| 16:00 – 18:00 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 9 | |||
| OPEN FORUM – Climate change and plants | SYMPOSIUM: Improving the adaptive potential of restored communities | OPEN FORUM – Fire Impacts | SYMPOSIUM: Tree dieback in Australian Ecosystems (3) | |
| 19:00 – 20:30 |
Online Trivia |
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Thursday 3 December 2020
| 9:00 – 10:00 | PLENARY SESSION FOUR | |||
| Keynote presentation: AERA presentation: Diana Fisher | ||||
| ESA Ecological Impact Award Winner Presentation | ||||
| 10:00 – 12:00 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10 | |||
| SYMPOSIUM: Our national State of the Environment – Key issues during a time of change (1) | SYMPOSIUM: Building resilience and recovering communities: collaborations between practitioners and researchers | SYMPOSIUM: Short-term impacts of the 2019-20 Fire Season | OPEN FORUM – Plant Ecology | |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Take a break (Thursday) | |||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunchtime workshop 6. Tips and Tricks for Starting an online Seminar Series | |||
| Lunchtime workshop 7: Using Virtual Laboratories to solve environmental problems – the EcoCommons Australia Program showcases it analytical tools | ||||
| 14:00 – 15:30 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 11 | |||
| ROUND TABLE: Our national State of the Environment – Key issues during a time of change | SYMPOSIUM: Building resilience and recovering communities: collaborations between practitioners and researchers | OPEN FORUM – Conservation Biology (2) | OPEN FORUM – Behaviour (1) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Quick refresh break (Thursday) | |||
| 16:00 – 17:00 | CONCURRENT SESSIONS 12 | |||
| OPEN FORUM – Urban Ecology (2) | OPEN FORUM – Behaviour (2) | OPEN FORUM – Conservation Biology (3) | OPEN FORUM – Pollution impacts on wildlife | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | CLOSING SESSION | |||
| Prizes and Awards | ||||
| Photo competition winners announcement | ||||
Friday 4 December 2020
| 900 – 1530 | Workshop 8: Writing for Publication |
| 900 – 1100 | Friday Workshop – Wildlife Acoustics |
| 1200 – 1400 | Friday Workshop -Wildlife Drones with Debbie Saunders |
