Posts tagged “ESA”

Crepes in Austin

The best restaurant I visited while at ESA in Austin was Le Café Crêpe. Look how happy it made these other ecologists:

ESA Interviews: Steve Ellner

I interviewed ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. If I hadn’t been certain that Ithaca would have dramatically increased the amount of time I spent incapacitated by migraines, I might […]

ESA interviews: Nick Gotelli

I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. Scientists are often portrayed in popular culture as utterly focused on their work, absolutely excluding personal relationships and all other interests […]

ESA Interviews: Aaron Berdanier

I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. I almost missed my first interview at ESA. After 14 hours door-to-door to get to my hotel in Austin with no […]

ESA Interviews – Coming Soon

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 […]

A new kind of talk at ESA

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?

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 […]