Monday, July 27, 2026 

• 11:45-1:15pm: Outliers in Regeneration: Bringing Together Perspectives on Ecosystem Recovery in Extreme, Human- and Climate-Altered Environments, Special Session, Cibele Amaral

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

• 8-9:30am: Collaborative conservation planning with AI decision-support tools, Oral Session, Cassie Buhler
• 10-11:30am: AI for Ecology: Accelerating Discoveries, Reducing Uncertainties, and Scaling Solutions, Special Session, Cibele Amaral, Jennifer Balch
• 1:30-3pm: Environmental Data Science Advancements from ESIIL Working Groups, Oral Session, Chelsea Nagy, Jennifer Balch, Ty Tuff, ESIIL WG members
• 3:30-5pm: Promise and Pitfalls: Open Data's Potential to Spark Innovation, Inspire Session, Cibele Amaral
• 3:30-5pm: Pre-fire disturbance context influences post-fire resilience in western U.S. forests, Oral Session, Tyler McIntosh
• 3:30-5pm: When Fire Becomes Metabolic: Dimensional Alignment and the Rise of Extreme Wildfire, Oral Session, Ty Tuff
• 3:30-5pm: Legacies of dead foundation species influence ecological trajectories by reshaping species interactions, Oral Session, Kai Kopecky
• 5:30-7:00pm: ESIIL Social at HallPass - RSVP here

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

• 8-9:30am: From Ember to Exabyte: Wildfires are a Big Data Frontier, Oral Session, Jennifer Balch, Matt Bitters, Nayani Ilangakoon, Lise St. Denis
• 10-11:30am: Fusing causal inference with machine learning to disentangle drivers of variation in the effects of fuel reduction treatments on wildfires in forests of the western United States, Oral Session, Katherine Siegel
• 11:45am-1:15pm: Fires that Linger Longer: Burn Severity as a Function of Fire Persistence, Oral Session, Danielle Losos
• 12:00-1:00pm: Diverse Careers in Higher Education, Exhibit, Cibele Amaral
• 1:30-3pm: Synthetic Ecology in a Time of Uncertainty, Symposia, Jennifer Balch

Thursday, July 30, 2026

• 10-11:30am: Continuous radar monitoring shows bats reduce insecticide use in California agriculture, Symposia, Brian Lee