{"id":31,"date":"2019-12-24T19:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2020-02-05T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:01:59","slug":"2019-year-in-review-executive-director-catherine-oriordan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/2019-year-in-review\/2019-year-in-review-executive-director-catherine-oriordan\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Year in Review: Executive Director Catherine O&#8217;Riordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2020\/01\/cathy-oriordan_250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2020\/01\/cathy-oriordan_250.png 250w, https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2020\/01\/cathy-oriordan_250-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As ESA members and staff begin\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a new year in 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I would like to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0take a few minutes to reflect on a few of our accomplishments in 2019.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The ESA Governing Board led an effort to draft a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/about\/esa-strategic-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new strategic plan<\/a>\u00a0that will guide our efforts through 2022.\u00a0 In addition, they have begun a review of ESA governance that has resulted in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">changes to modernize ESA Bylaws.\u00a0 These changes will help ESA to function as a modern scientific society to achieve our mission \u2013\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">to advance the science and practice of ecology and support ecologists throughout their careers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/ecology-in-the-news\/news-events\/a-brief-look-back-at-esa-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Read the rest on Ecotone!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As ESA members and staff begin\u00a0a new year in 2020,\u00a0I would like to\u00a0take a few minutes to reflect on a few of our accomplishments in 2019.\u00a0 The ESA Governing Board led an effort to draft a\u00a0new strategic plan\u00a0that will guide our efforts through 2022.\u00a0 In addition, they have begun a review of ESA governance that has resulted in\u00a0changes to modernize&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":238,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}