Archive for August, 2011

ESA Interviews – Coming Soon

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As promised, I interviewed a bunch of really cool ecologists at ESA this year. While I really enjoyed the talks at the conference and catching up with old friends, the interviews ended up being my favorite part of ESA! I’ll start writing those up and posting them soon, but the arrival of my stuff and […]

Home again!

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I’m finally home after a thrilling, but exhausting ESA meeting. The trip home was a little more exciting and a lot longer than I expected due to a flock of birds attacking my plane. There were no winners in this interaction, but the birds definitely got the worst of it. I’m still pretty tired, but […]

A new kind of talk at ESA

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I think the annual Ecological Society of America meeting needs some new talk types. I know, I know – there are already lots of different kinds of sessions – workshops, organized oral, contributed oral, symposia, special, and posters. But I think ESA would be better with some ‘overview’ talks and lectures for the general public. […]

Interview sneak peak: What’s an inquiline?

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One of the people I’m interviewing this week thinks a lot about a specific system of inquilines. To prep you for reading about his work, I thought a little background on inquilines was in order. So what exactly is an inquiline? An inquiline is an animal (including bugs!) that lives inside a structure – like […]

Hello from ESA 2011!

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I’m at ESA in Austin, Texas – thanks to you! I’m melting from the heat, but so happy and excited to be here. I’ve already run into lots of old friends and interviewed my first awesome ecologist. Awesome ecologist posts will likely be up late this week or sometime next week. Until then, have a […]