BU at the 2019 Ecological Society of America Meeting

Posted by Lucy Zipf

This August I traveled to Louisville, KY to attend this year’s Ecological Society of America meeting. This conference provides attendees a great opportunity to interact with a large community of ecologists and learn about new exciting research. I presented my work on Tree Swallow response to global change to an engaged audience.

Presenting my talk using very animated facial expressions

Many current and past members of the BU Biogeosciences Program presented talks and posters through the week. I was also able to see talks from former Primack Lab members Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie and Dr. Amanda Gallinat, who both presented work from their post docs. 

In addition to hearing about my peers’ work, I enjoyed attending the diversity of talks on urban ecology; including Dr. Diane Pataki’s plenary talk on the ecology of cultivated landscapes and the symposium on segregation as an ecological factor lead by Dr. Steward Pickett.

BU Biogeoscientists at ESA. 

Let to Right: Nick Ray giving a talk about oyster mediated nitrogen fluxes; Jamie Harrison showing off the title slide for her talk on winter climate change; Erin Pierce presenting her urban ecology poster

On the last night of the conference the BU Biogeoscience members organized a meet up to attend a minor league baseball game. Unfortunately, the Louisville Bats did not win, but we had a great time at the game and the conference!