Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Unifying Natural History, Big Data, and Theory
Discussion Leader: Racine Rangel (University of California Santa Cruz, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm
Sarah Supp (Denison University, United States)
"Problem-Solving in The Anthropocene: The Emergence of Data Driven Research and Training in Ecology"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Role of Data in Ecology
Discussion Leader: Lisa Buche (University of Melbourne, Australia)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Hanlun Liu (University of Melbourne, Australia)
"How Interaction Networks Scale Up with More Species in Plant Communities"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Jamie Reeves (Oklahoma State University, United States)
"A Landscape of Arthropod Nutrition: Using Spectral Measures of Plant Quantity and Quality to Understand Spatial Variability in Community-Level Biomass."
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Kyle Turchick (Cornell University, United States)
"Testing the Geodiversity-Biodiversity Relationship across Spatial Scales and Taxa"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Clara Qin (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, United States)
"Quantifying the Compositional Sensitivity of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Climate Change"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Prediction Within and Across Changing Ecosystems
Discussion Leader: Ze-Yi Han (Duke University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Ashwini Ramesh (Michigan State University, United States)
"Coinfection, Exclusion and Priority Effect: A Mechanistic Framework of Within-Host Parasite Competition"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Pinelopi Ntetsika (ETHZ, Eawag, Switzerland)
"Uncovering Cyanobacterial Growth Drivers Through State-Dependent Dynamics Reconstruction Using High-Frequency Observational Data"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Greta Savitsky (University of Vermont, United States)
"Modeling Feedbacks in Boreal Carbon, Temperature, and Vegetative Dynamics"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Andrew Villeneuve (University of New Hampshire, United States)
"Coupling of Mechanistic Individual Survival Models with Metapopulation Models as an Ecological Forecasting Tool to Marine Heatwaves"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Decision Making for an Unknown Future
Discussion Leader: Nadia Raytselis (Emory University, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
David Grenier-Héon (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
"Linking Metabolic Scaling Theory and Ecological Thermodynamics to Assess the Ecological Integrity of Urban Forests"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Benjamin Tonelli (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"Linking Climatic Variability, Cone Production in Coniferous Forests, Bird Irruptions, and Disease Outbreaks in the United States"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes