Program

The details for the 2012 USIALE Annual Meeting are starting to come together and we have an exciting slate of Plenary Speakers, Symposia, and Workshops lined up. As more details emerge for each of these, we will add that information here.

Plenary Speakers:

Scott Nixon, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Professor of Oceanography
Morgan Grove, USDA Forest Service & Balmtimore LTER, Research Forester
Mark Anderson, The Nature Conservance, Eastern US Region, Director of Conservation Science

Symposia:

Historical, current, and future land-cover mapping and modeling for the United States (Conveners: Terry Sohl, Benjamin Sleeter, Peter Claggett)
Green space as a key feature in the urban landscape - from theory to praxis (Conveners: Michael Strohbac, Emily Lorance Rall, Paige Warren, Eric Strauss)
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives: Regional Geographic Network Partnerships Supporting Sustainable Landscapes (Conveners: Anne Kuhn-Hines, Andrew Milliken)
Landscape resilience to changing disturbance dynamics: bold approaches and solutions (Convener: Erica Smithwick)
Informing forest landscape management decisions using LANDIS-II (Convener: Eric Gustafson)
NASA-MSU symposium: Environmental sensors and loggers: New approaches to characterizing heterogeneity and applications in landscape ecology (Convener: Thomas Albright)

Workshops:

Half-day Workshops (Tuesday, April 10th)

NASA-MSU Workshop: A Workshop on Land Surface Phenology (Organizers: Kirsten de Beurs and Geoff Henebry)
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Data and Information for Science, Education, and Resource Management (Organizers: Brian Wee)
NASA-MSU Student Workshop: From Application to Employment: Starting a Career in Landscape Ecology (Organizers: Jessica Price and Molly Van Appledorn)

Full-day Workshops (Thursday, April 12th)

Part 1: Introduction to R and Part 2: Spatial analysis in R (Organizer: Sarah Goslee)
Land Change Modeling: calibration, validation, extrapolation, and interpretation (Organizer: Robert (Gil) Pontius, Jr)
Statistical Analysis of Spatial Data Differing in Support (Organizers: Linda Young and Michael McManus)