The following are sessions and workshops that EFI has sponsored or coordinated at national and international conferences.
| Date | Conference | Session | Location | Organizer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System Oral and Poster Session | Washington, D.C., USA | EFI |
| 2019 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Advancing the Ecological Forecasting Initiative: Novel Applications, Discoveries, and Opportunities Oral Session | Louisville, KY, USA | EFI |
| 2019 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System Oral and Poster Session | San Francisco, CA, USA | EFI |
| 2019 Feb | Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) | Forecasting is the Future: Advancing Methods and Applications of Forecasting in the Aquatic Sciences Special Session | San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
| 2023 Jun | Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) | Combining Machine Learning and Process-Based Models in Ecological Prediction | Palma De Mallorca, Spain | |
| 2019 Nov | Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) | Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) Training Workshop | Launceston, Tasmania | |
| 2019 Nov | Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) | An Introduction to Ecological Forecasting in Lakes Workshop | Huntsville (Muskoka), ON, Canada | |
| 2020 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Ecological Forecasting: Applications, Discoveries, and Opportunities Oral Session | Virtual | EFI |
| 2020 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | The Ecological Forecasting Initiative: Lessons Learned from a Grassroots Network to Advance Ecology Symposia | Virtual | EFI |
| 2020 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System Oral and Poster Session | Virtual | EFI |
| 2020 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting Initiative: NEON Forecasting Challenge Town Hall | Virtual | EFI |
| 2020 Jan | American Meteorological Society (AMS) | Panel Discussion 2: Saving More Lives and Livelihoods in the Next Century: The Era of Operational Ecological Forecasting | Boston, MA, USA | |
| 2021 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | EFI/NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge Inspire Session | Virtual | EFI |
| 2021 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System Oral and Poster Session | New Orleans, LA, USA | EFI |
| 2021 Sep | American Meteorological Society 10th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise | Ecological Forecasting: Predicting Nature for Environmental Security | Virtual | |
| 2022 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Planning Resilient Ecological Futures with Indigenous Communities Oral Session | Toronto, ON, Canada | EFI & ESA Traditional Knowledge Section |
| 2022 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | A Comparative Perspective on Integrating Ecological Forecasting with Decision-Making” Oral Session | Toronto, ON, Canada | CEFI |
| 2022 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Ecological Forecasting: Applications, Discoveries, and Opportunities Oral Session | Toronto, ON, Canada | EFI |
| 2022 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System Oral and Poster Session | Chicago, IL, USA | EFI |
| 2022 Jul | Geoscience Alliance Conference: Data Science in Indian Country | Ecological Forecasting and Native American Land and Water Resource Management | St. Paul, MN, USA | |
| 2022 May | Joint Aquatic Science Meeting (JASM) | Advancing Near-term, Iterative Ecological Forecasting in Aquatic Ecosystems Session | Grand Rapids, MI, USA | |
| 2022 May | Royal Meteorological Society & British Ecological Society Symposium | Climate Science for Ecological Forecasting | London, UK | |
| 2022 Oct | Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) | Introduction to real-time lake forecasting: learn, teach, and generate forecasts with Macrosystems EDDIE modules and the NEON Forecasting Challenge Workshop | Lake George, NY, USA | |
| 2023 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Can you Predict the Future? Introducing the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge Workshop | Portland, OR, USA | EFI |
| 2023 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Teach Quantitative Reasoning and Ecological Forecasting to Undergraduates with Project EDDIE and Macrosystems EDDIE Modules | Portland, OR, USA | EFI |
| 2023 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Ecological Forecasting: Applications, Discoveries, and Opportunities Oral Session | Portland, OR, USA | EFI |
| 2023 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System Oral and Poster Session | San Francisco, CA, USA | EFI |
| 2023 Feb | Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) | Introduction to real-time lake forecasting: learn, teach, and generate forecasts with Macrosystems EDDIE modules and the NEON Forecasting Challenge | Virtual | |
| 2023 Jul | Hacking Limnology 2023 from DSOS and AEMON-J | Incorporating Data Science and Open Science in Aquatic Research | Virtual | |
| 2023 Sep | GfÖ 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland | Ecological forecasting for decision making under global change: Advances and applications Session | Leipzig Germany | EEFI |
| 2024 Jun | Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) | SS42 Ecological Forecasting as a Tool for Adaptation and Mitigation in Aquatic Ecosystems | Madison, WI, USA | |
| 2024 Jul | Hacking Limnology 2024 from DSOS and AEMON-J | Incorporating Data Science and Open Science in Aquatic Research | Virtual | |
| 2024 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Ecological Forecasting for Research and Decision Making | Long Beach, CA, USA | EFI |
| 2024 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | An Introduction to the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge: A Hands-On Example Using Ground Beetle Abundance and Richness | Long Beach, CA, USA | EFI |
| 2024 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | What is Model Complexity? Defining Complexity Across Systems in Ecology | Long Beach, CA, USA | EFI |
| 2024 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Model-Data Integration and Novel Paradigms in Ecosystem Forecasting Poster and Oral Presentations | Washington, DC | EFI |
| 2024 Dec | Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) | Advancing ecological theory and management with near-term forecasts: an Australasian synthesis Symposium | Melbourne, Australia | OEFI |
| 2025 Feb | BioSpace25 | Forecasting Landscape Dynamics DEMO | Frascati (Rome), Italy | EEFI |
| 2025 Jun | eLTER Science Conference 2025 | Ecological Forecasting for Integrated Science | Tampere, Finland | EEFI |
| 2025 Jun | III meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society (SIBECOL) | Perspectives and Challenges in Biodiversity Forecasting | Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain | EEFI |
| 2025 Aug | Ecological Society of America (ESA) | Ecological Forecasting for Research and Decision Making | Baltimore, MD, USA | EFI |
| 2025 Nov | MODSIM | Ecological forecasting: Advancing ecological theory and management in Oceania with near-term forecasts session in the "Environment and ecology” stream | Adelaide, Australia | OEFI |
| 2025 Dec | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System | New Orleans, LA, USA | EFI |
| 2025 Dec | British Ecological Society | Lunchtime Workshop on “Skill, impact, or trust? Building a holistic view of ecological forecast success” | Edinburgh, Scotland | EEFI |
| 2026 Jan | The International Biogeography Society (TIBS) | Workshop on “Building Workflows for Near-Term Iterative Forecasting“ | Aarhus, Denmark | EEFI |
| 2026 May | 2026 Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and International Society for Limnology (SIL) joint meeting | SS070 Session: Exploring the confluence of data, models, and forecasts for advancing adaptive management strategies for aquatic ecosystems | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | EFI |
| 2026 Jun | ANdiNa VIII Workshop | Improving Predictions in Ecology: Can complex problems get away with simple solutions? | Nerín, Spain | EEFI |