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AESS's 2011 Annual Meeting and Conference
"Confronting Complexity"
 
Hosted by the University of Vermont
June 23-26, 2011
B
urlington, Vermont




"Confronting Complexity" Program

Thursday, June 23    
7:30am-8:30am Breakfast 
 8:30am (depart from Davis Center Oval)
All-day and Half-day Field Trips
9:00am-4:00pm
(Depart from Lafayette)
All-day Workshops
9:00am-12:00pm Half-day workshops 
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch provided 
1:00pm-4:00pm Half-day workshops & Half-day Field Trips
5:00pm-6:45pm
(Billings)
Evening opening reception and welcome Taste of Vermont buffet 
7:00pm-8:30pm
(Billings Theater)
Plenary event :  
    - Welcome from UVM president
    - Remarks from AESS president Kim Smith
    - Plenary address by Dr. Heidi Cullen, CEO and Director of Communications, Climate Central 
Friday, June 24   
7:30am-9:00am  Breakfast 
9:00am-10:30am, coffee and snack break at 10:30

(All sessions in Davis Center, Jeffords, Terrill)

Session A

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  • Theoretical Innovation in ESS
  • Exploring How Mass Media Confront Complexity When Covering Climate Change, part 1
  • Ecological Insights: Pushing the Boundaries (Symposium)
  • Environmental Collaboration Outside the Classroom, part 1
  • Green Economics: Theory and Practice, part 1
  • Food Systems: Theory & Practice, part 1
  • Networks of sustainability: Examining & opening up the politics of power system transitions
  • Relationships between Interdisciplinary Environmental Education and Sustainability Education Degree Programs:  Transitions and Transformations
  • A Place for History in Environmental Studies, Part 1
  • Open Source Learning

 

 

 

11:00am-12:30pm

(All sessions in Davis Center, Jeffords, Terrill) 
Session B

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  • Forests: Their Multiple Dimensions in a Complex World
  • Confronting Complexity: The Brazilian Experience
  • Education for Sustainable Energy
  • Community Sustainability, part 1
  • Tales of the Adirondacks: Cooperation and Conflict in Protected Area Land Management
  • eTour of Local Lands: An Interdisciplinary Tool to Connect Students and Place-based Research
  • Artists and Environmental Scientists: Opportunities for Skill-Sharing and Collaborations, part 1
  • Agency Perspectives: The U.S. Marine Mammal Commission 
  • ESS Program Design and Assessment, part 1
  • Urban Environmental Pedagogies: Bringing Theory to Practice, part 1

 

12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch, Roundtable Discussions
2:00pm-3:30pm, coffee and snack break at 3:30

(All sessions in Davis Center, Jeffords, Terrill)
Session C

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  • Pedagogy of Place: Seeing the Forest for more than its trees
  • Confronting Complexity in Vermont
  • Environmental Justice: Ethics, Race, Rights, part 1
  • Confronting Complexity Through The Policy Perspective: What Shapes and Drives our Social Institutions
  • A Role for Privilege in Complexity Theory: The Contributions of William Freudenburg 
  • ESS – Pedagogical Issues, part 1
  • Sustainability Frontiers: Models, Meanings, Manipulations, part 1
  • Information Dissemination: Developing Green Tools
  • Overcoming the Challenges of Multi-X Collaborations
  • Confronting Complexity with Concept Maps
  • The Legacies of Aldo Leopold: Confronting the Ethical and Spiritual Complexities of the Land Ethic
 4:00pm-5:30pm

(All sessions in Davis Center, Jeffords, Terrill)
Session D

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  • Religion, Ethics, Peace: A Golden Braid
  • Floods and Water Management
  • Communities & Conservation: Leadership and Engagement
  • Dealing with Complexity: Perspectives from Developing Countries
  • Climate Change in Communities: Mitigation, Adaptation, Resilience, part 1
  • Food Systems: Theory & Practice, part 2
  • Artists and Environmental Scientists: Opportunities for Skill-Sharing and Collaborations, part 2
  • Taking Stock: An Evaluation of PES Programs
  • Coming Clean: Environmental Information Disclosure in the United States

 

5:45pm
(Livak I)
AESS business meeting 
6:30pm
(Brennan's, Davis Center)
ESS Junior Scholars Reception: A gathering for undergraduate and graduate students and emerging scholars in the fields of ESS

Dinner (on your own)
 7:30pm
(Silver Maple Room)

Film: Vermont premier of the documentary "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time" followed by a panel discussion with Leopold biographer and on-screen guide Curt Meine, co-director Steve Dunsky, and conservation biologist and author Gary Meffe.
Saturday, June 25    
7:30am-9:00am   Breakfast, Roundtable Discussions
9:00am-10:30am, coffee and snack break at 10:30

(All sessions in Davis Center, Jeffords, Terrill)
Session E

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  • Population-Level Effects of Acoustic Disturbance on Marine Mammals, Part 1
  • Green Economics: Theory and Practice, part 2
  • Social Responses to New Renewable Energy Technologies and Infrastructure, part 1
  • Environmental Collaboration Outside the Classroom, part 2
  • Sustainable Behavior: Its Psychological and Environmental Impacts
  • ESS – Pedagogical Issues, part 2
  • Sustainability Pedagogy & Practice
  • ‘Complexifying’ the Vision: Increasing Hospitality toward Different Ways of Knowing in ESS, part 1
  • A Place for History in Environmental Studies, part 2
  • Teaching Climate Change Across the Curriculum - Within and Outside of the Classroom

 

 

11:00am-12:30pm

(All sessions in Davis Center, Jeffords, Terrill)
Session F

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  • Population-Level Effects of Acoustic Disturbance on Marine Mammals, Part 2
  • Reports from the Field: Newly-minted PhDs Relay the Real Deal
  • Social Responses to New Renewable Energy Technologies and Infrastructure, part 2
  • Community Sustainability, part 2
  • The World of Environmental Policy-Making, part 1
  • Exploring How Mass Media Confront Complexity When Covering Climate Change, part 2
  • ESS Program Design and Assessment, part 1
  • Student Award Presentations
  • Artists and Environmental Scientists: Opportunities for Skill-Sharing and Collaborations, part 3
  • Urban Environmental Pedagogies: Bringing Theory to Practice, part 2
  • ‘Complexifying’ the Vision: Increasing Hospitality toward Different Ways of Knowing in ESS, part 2
1:00pm-5:30pm
(Depart from Davis Center Oval)
Field Trips in afternoon with box lunch 
6:30pm-7:30pm
(Livak Fireplace Lounge)
Poster Sessions and reception 
7:30pm-10:00pm
(Silver Maple Room)
Evening buffet banquet, awards ceremony, entertainment, social  
Sunday, June 26    
7:30am-9:00am   Breakfast 
8:00am
(Handy Family Room)
 AESS Council Meeting
9:00am-10:30am

(All sessions in Davis Center, Jeffords, Terrill) 
Session G

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  • Career Advising in ESS: Demystifying Green Job Counseling
  • Perspectives on Invasive Species
  • Integrating community-based projects into GIS courses: Preparing students to work on interdisciplinary group projects
  • The World of Environmental Policy-making, part 2
  • Environmental Justice: Ethics, Race, Rights, part 2
  • ESS – Pedagogical Issues, part 3
  • Artists and Environmental Scientists: Opportunities for Skill-Sharing and Collaborations, part 4
  • Urban Environmental Pedagogies: Bringing Theory to Practice, part 3
  • A Place for History in Environmental Studies, part 3

 

9:00am-10:30am
(Sugar Maple Room)
 Journey of the Universe film
11:00am-12:00pm
(Sugar Maple Room)
Closing plenary event featuring The Hon. Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator (I-VT) 
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch, Adjourn