Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) Conference 2024

About the Event

Learning about how nature works includes identifying fundamental driving processes, characterising important interactions, and communicating those discoveries effectively. This is how ecology advances, providing stories that engage and explain nature to a lay audience, as well as underpinning applications of our science to ecological problems with practitioners on-ground. Never has it been more important to do good science to understand ecological systems and to provide the evidence that supports sound environmental policies and effective conservation and management.

The 2024 Ecological Society of Australia Conference (ESA 2024) will showcase the science of ecology in Australia – across all its varied forms – and be an opportunity to explore the connection between science theory, science research, science policy and science on-ground outcomes.

Program

The conference program will consist of poster presentations, 5-minute speed talks and 15-minute oral presentations. The conference will also feature keynotes, symposia, field trips and workshops, and a wide range of social and networking events.

While in-person attendance is encouraged, a limited number of plenaries and symposia will be live-streamed and some of the presentations will be made available online after the conference.

View the program.

ARDC at ESA 2024

The ARDC will have a booth at the venue, where you can learn about our work through the Planet Research Data Commons for earth and environmental science research. There will also be a number of workshops and presentations by our partners about our co-investment projects, including:

• EcoAcoustics (Build Your Own Call Recogniser: Integrating Passive Acoustic Monitoring with AI for Scalable Biodiversity Tracking)
• EcoCommons (Species Distribution Models for Environmental, Ecological and Conservation Applications with EcoCommons Australia)
• the Wildlife Observatory of Australia (WildObs).

We will also be presenting this year’s ARDC-sponsored ESA award for New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology on Thursday 12 December. Read about the previous winners:

• 2023: Dr Roozbeh Valavi
• 2022: Dr Fonti Kar.

Learn More

For more information, visit the ESA 2024 website.

Do you have questions about this event? Contact the ESA 2024 Conference Secretariat.