ESA designates an Early Career Fellow of the Society as certain early career members (typically chosen within 8 years of receiving the Ph.D.) who have begun making and show promise of continuing to ...

In fall 2017, ESA President Rich Pouyat charged a task force of ESA members to explore strategies for expanding and stabilizing the Society’s membership. We are committed to increasing membership ...

Some of the most innovative teaching of ecology and environmental science happens at community colleges. Teaching ecology at a community college has its own challenges and special rewards; it is the ...

An archive of reports featured in past issues of Jigsaw. Each link directs the user straight to the selected report. To view the complete Jigsaw Archive, click here. Each issue of Jigsaw serves to ...

Queries regarding ESA journals should be directed to esajournals (esa.org). Queries regarding “Issues in Ecology” should be directed to serita.frey (unh.edu) ...

Dr. Tom Wentworth is a plant community ecologist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University. He has been a member of ESA’s Panel for ...

Dr. Fernando Maestre received his BsC and PhD in biology from the University of Alicante (Spain) in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He then did a postdoc at Duke University and moved in 2005 to Rey Juan ...

Veronica Tangiri is the Water Quality Programs Coordinator at Prince William Soil and Water Conservation District in Prince William County in Virginia. She also leads the Virginia Adopt-A-Stream ...

At the February 2025 ESA Council meeting, representatives reviewed several scenarios for changes to ESA’s dues structure to support additional dues-based funding to the sections and chapters. An ad ...

The Distinguished Service Citation is given to recognize long and distinguished volunteer service to the ESA, to the larger scientific community, and to the larger purpose of ecology in the public ...

Dr. Mark Vellend is a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and a 2020 ESA Fellow. Since the start of his career, Dr. Vellend has been interested in long-term changes in the composition ...

The ESA Public Affairs Office provides complimentary press registration to public information officers and institutional press officers, professional journalists representing media organizations, ...