Session Topics
Proposed Sessions with Organizers and Contact Information
Sessions are listed below once they have been proposed. If you have questions about a particular proposed session, please contact the organizer listed for that session. Proposals welcome ... If you would like to organize a session on a topic that has not yet been proposed, please see the call for sessions page. Note that we also encourage presentations on topics not solicited by session organizers and that don't necessarily fit into one of the proposed sessions ... we will be creating additional sessions to accommodate those talks.
| Session Title | Organizer | Contact Information |
| Plenary Session | ||
| Nature's Best Chance | Doug Tallamy | |
| Botany | ||
| Tales of Change Through the Lens of Lichens | Jeremy Howland | jhowland@gradcenter.cuny.edu |
| New England Flora | Eric Doucette | Eric.Doucette@maine.gov |
| New York Herbaria: Exciting Stories of Science, Humanity, and Education | James Lendemer | James.Lendemer@nysed.gov |
| The Consortium of Northeast Herbaria (CNH): Advancing Collaboration, Digitization, and Biodiversity Research and Conservation for Nearly 20 Years | Patrick Sweeney | patrick.sweeney@yale.edu |
| Conservation Management | ||
Conservation Dogs |
Ashley Zimmerman | ashley@oxbowassociates.com |
| Ecological Restoration | Jess Rubin | Jessica.Rubin@uvm.edu |
| Fish Ecology | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Ecology and Natural History of Northeastern Forests | Christian Liriano | cliriano1018@gmail.com |
| Freshwater Ecology | ||
| Freshwater Mollusks of the Northeast | Jay Cordeiro |
j.cordeiro@nenaturalhistory.com |
| Water Quality Monitoring and Management: Methods, Ecological Impacts, and Environmental Change | Laura Reynolds | laura.reynolds@worcester.edu |
| Wetlands | Rick Van de Poll | rickvdp@gmail.com |
| General Ecology | ||
| Alpine Zone Ecology | Andrea Tirrell Jordon Tourville Braedon Lineman |
andrea.tirrell@maine.edu jtourville@outdoors.org braedon.lineman@maine.edu |
| Behavioral Ecology | Catherine Bevier | crbevier@colby.edu |
| Peatlands of the Boreal Temperate Ecotone | Mark Lesser | mless004@plattsburgh.edu |
| Stories, Explorations, Discoveries, Ideas, Great Places, and Cool Plants and Animals | John Davis Brett Engstrom Jerry Jenkins |
jdavis@adirondackcouncil.org engstrombrett@gmail.com jerrycreejenkins@gmail.com |
| Stories from the Field: New and Seasoned Voices | Tammis Coffin | asktammis@yahoo.com |
| The Vermont Natural History Collection Network: Plumbing Two Centuries of Specimens for Modern-day Science | Sonia DeYoung | sonia.deyoung@uvm.edu |
| Herps | ||
| Northeast Herpetology | Brian Bastarache | bbastarache@gmail.com |
| The Salamander Population and Adaptation Research Collaboration (SPARCnet) Postbaccalaureate Research Showcase | Caitlin Fisher-Reid | MFISHERREID@bridgew.edu |
| Human Impacts | ||
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| Invasive Species | ||
| Northeast Invasive Species | Elizabeth Whitmore-Stolar | elizabeth.whitmore-stolar@dec.ny.gov |
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| Invertebrates | ||
Butterfly Ecology and Conservation in the Northeast |
Kent McFarland | kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org |
| Native Pollinators of the Northeast | Leslie Spencer Spencer Hardy |
Leslie.Spencer@uvm.edu shardy@vtecostudies.org |
Northeast Odonates |
Mark Ward | akamward@gmail.com |
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| Mammals | ||
| Marine and Coastal Ecology | ||
| Marine and Coastal Ecology of the Northeast | Sarah O'Malley | sarah.omalley@mma.edu |
| Ornithology | ||
| Northeastern Grassland and Scrubland Birds | Kevin Tolan |
ktolan@vtecostudies.org |
| Seabird Ecology in the Marine Environment | John Anderson |
janderson@coa.edu |
| Paleoecology | ||
| Paleontology and Paleoecology of Eastern North America | Fred Rogers | ROGERSFS@franklinpierce.edu |
| Science Education and Public Engagement | ||
| Community Science | Mike Akresh | makresh@antioch.edu |
| Ecology Education: Innovative Pedagogy | Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch | tmaenzag@barnard.edu |
| Your Campus as a Natural History Laboratory | Declan McCabe | dmccabe@smcvt.edu |
| Other | ||
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