Posts tagged “ESA”

Hello from ESA 2011!

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 […]

Send me to the Ecological Society of America meeting!

By August, I’m usually more than a little frustrated with my research and feeling overwhelmed. But then I go to the annual Ecological Society of America meeting. I leave brimming with ideas and renewed excitement and motivation. ESA is awesome… I love hearing about the latest research in my particular subfield, and I’m inspired by research seemingly […]

Why should you go to a scientific meeting?

Every summer since 2008, I’ve gone to a big scientific meeting.  Meetings are one of my favorite parts of being a scientist.  It’s exciting to see all the newest ideas in my particular subfield and to learn more about subfields I’m interested in, but don’t have time to teach myself about.  I’m becoming more and […]

ESA Meeting

I spent last week at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Albuquerque.  ESA meetings are huge, and Albuquerque was not quite prepared – at least one bar ran out of beer. Albuquerque was not the prettiest city, but I loved that there were murals everywhere.  Unfortunately, I only got one picture.   There were […]

My first ESA meeting!

This summer, I went to the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting in Milwaukee.  After spending most of my summer at KBS near the small town of Hickory Corners, it was nice to be in a city for a few days. The conference was great.  I learned a lot of ecology, met tons of cool […]