SYMP 5: ESA Early Career Fellows and Mercer Award Symposium I

Session Organizer(s)

• Charles Nilon

  University of Missouri
  Columbia, MO, USA

Moderator(s)

• Charles Nilon

  University of Missouri
  Columbia, MO, USA

Volunteer(s)

• Sachinthani Karunarathne

  School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia

This symposium will showcase the research of ESA Early Career Fellows and the Mercer Award winner. Early Career Fellows are members recognized for advancing ecological knowledge and for their promise of continuing to make outstanding contributions to ecology. The Mercer Award is given by ESA for an outstanding ecological research paper published by a younger researcher 40 years of age or younger at the time of publication. Talks will span the field of ecology and highlight new directions in ecological research.

Presentations:

• ON DEMAND

  Experiments, synthesis, and love: The means to understanding plant community responses to global change
  

  Presenting Author: Meghan Avolio – Johns Hopkins University
• ON DEMAND

  Linking local dynamics to emergent ecosystem-scale properties to predict production in tropical coastal ecosystems
  

  Presenting Author: Jacob Allgeier – University of Michigan
• ON DEMAND

  Textured species range maps enhance interdisciplinary science capacity across scales
  

  Presenting Author: Nyeema C. Harris – School of the Environment, Yale University
• ON DEMAND

  The right kind of machine learning for a changing planet?
  

  Presenting Author: Carl Boettiger – University of California Berkeley