Front Range Student Ecology Symposium

2026 SCHEDULE

We look forward to seeing you for the 32nd edition of FRSES: FRSES 2026- Understand Your Planet! FRSES is proud to host a networking event for the Ecological Society of America Rocky Mountain Chapter Meeting following the chapter’s reestablishment in 2025. The event will take place on Friday 2/27 at 11 am and we encourage all participants to join! Full presentation details can be found in the FRSES 2026 program – to be posted soon!

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THURSDAY – FEB 26, 2026

12:00pm-6:30pm	Check-in	LSC Theatre
2:00pm-3:00pm	Campus Tours	Insect Museum, Biology Collections, and Herbarium
3:00pm- 4:00pm	Coffee and Tea	LSC Theatre
4:00pm-5:00pm	Keynote: Whendee Silver	LSC Theatre
5pm	Hors D’ouvres served	LSC Theatre
5:00pm-6:30pm	Poster Session	LSC Theatre
5:00pm-5:45pm	Even Numbered Posters
5:45pm-6:30pm	Odd Numbered Posters
6:30pm-7:00pm	Social Hour	LSC Theatre

FRIDAY – FEB 27, 2026

7:00am-3:00pm	Check-in	LSC Theater
8:00am-3:00pm	Anytime Break Room: Coffee, Tea, & Snacks	LSC Theater
8:00am-9:15am	Oral Presentations: Session 1
	TBD	LSC Room 304 – 306
	TBD	LSC Room 308 – 310
	TBD	LSC Room 312
9:15am-9:30am	Break	LSC Theater
9:30am-10:45am	Oral Presentations: Session 2
	TBD	LSC Room 304 – 306
	TBD	LSC Room 308 – 310
	TBD	LSC Room 312
10:45am-11:00am	Break	LSC Theatre
11:00am-12:00pm	Rocky Mountain Chapter ESA Hosted Panel	LSC Theatre
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch	LSC Theater
1:00pm-2:30pm	Oral Presentations: Session 3
	TBD	LSC Room 304-306
	TBD	LSC Room 308-310
2:30pm-2:45pm	Break	LSC Theater
2:45pm-3:45pm	Workshops
	“Keep your R Code Tidy” with Brooke Anderson	LSC Room 304 – 306
	“Ecological Perspectives Across Time: How Past and Present Inform Each Other” with Nicole Archambeau (History) and Lindsay Burnette (Horticulture and Landscape Architecture)	LSC Room 308 – 310
3:45pm-4:00pm	Break	LSC Theater
4:00pm-5:00pm	Reception, Awards Ceremony & Hor’s Douvres served	LSC Theater