{"id":279,"date":"2022-03-21T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2022-06-14T18:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:20:37","slug":"leadership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/2021\/leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We had a year of challenges and opportunities in 2021, and, as our leadership has time and again, they rose to the occasion and steered the Society toward a more promising future. As an organization, we revamped our governance to make it more responsive and representative of the membership, created two new committees to better address our strategic priorities and overhauled our approach to professional development for ecologists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This letter<\/a> from past president Kathleen Weathers<\/strong> details some of our major accomplishments in support more inclusion in science and our Society, while this message from Executive Director Catherine O\u2019Riordan<\/strong> digs into the successes of the leadership and staff working together<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Governing Board<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

President-Elect<\/h3>Dennis Ojima<\/strong>
Colorado State University<\/div>

President<\/h3>Kathleen Weathers<\/strong>
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies<\/div>

Past President<\/h3>Osvaldo Sala<\/strong>
Arizona State University<\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Vice President for Finance<\/h3>Jeannine Cavender-Bares<\/strong>
University of Minnesota<\/td>\n

Secretary<\/h3>Jessica Gurevitch<\/strong>
Stony Brook University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Vice President for Education
and Human Resources<\/h3>Carmen Cid<\/strong>
Eastern Connecticut State University<\/td>\n

Vice President for Public Affairs<\/h3>
Laura Petes<\/strong>
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Vice President for Science<\/h3>Diane Pataki<\/strong>
Arizona State University<\/td>\n

Member At-large<\/h3>Zoe Cardon<\/strong>
Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Member At-large<\/h3>Jacqueline Gill<\/strong>
University of Maine<\/td>\n

Member At-large<\/h3>Sasha Reed<\/strong>
U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Center<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

2021 Board of Professional Certification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Chair<\/h3>Tim Nuttle<\/strong>
Oikos Ecology LLC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Steven Archer<\/strong>
University of Arizona<\/td>\n		Mary Barber<\/strong>
RTI International<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steven Jones<\/strong>
GFD Pty, Ltd<\/td>\n		Zakiya Leggett<\/strong>
North Carolina State University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Schmalzer<\/strong>
NASA Kennedy Space Center, IMSS<\/td>\n		Diane Wickland<\/strong>
NASA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

2021 Editors in Chief<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ecology<\/h3>Kathryn Cottingham<\/strong>
Dartmouth College<\/td>\n

Ecological Applications<\/h3>Juan Corley<\/strong>
Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Ecological Monographs<\/h3>Aimee Classen<\/strong>
University of Michigan<\/td>\n

Ecosphere<\/h3>Debra Peters<\/strong>
USDA\/ARS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment<\/h3>Rich Wallace<\/strong>
Ecological Society of America<\/td>\n

Bulletin of the
Ecological Society of America<\/h3>Ed Johnson<\/strong>
University of Calgary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Issues in Ecology<\/h3>Serita Frey<\/strong>
University of New Hampshire<\/td>\n

Book Review Editor<\/h3>Stephen Matter<\/strong>
University of Cincinnati<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

2021 Committee Members<\/h2>\n

See this page for a full list of ESA\u2019s Board, program and administrative committees; note that the Society\u2019s governance reform changed the\n\n\n\n<\/p>

2021 Section and Chapter Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Section Chairs<\/h3><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Agroecology<\/strong>
Andrew Cartmill
\u00a0<\/td>\n		Applied Ecology<\/strong>
Ajay Sharma
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Aquatic Ecology<\/strong>
John Kominoski
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asian Ecology<\/strong>
Lin Jiang
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Biogeosciences<\/strong>
Steven Allison
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Black Ecologists<\/strong>
Nyeema Harris
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Communication &
Engagement<\/strong>
Robert Newman
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Disease Ecology<\/strong>
Sarah Budischak
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Early Career Ecologists<\/strong>
Cari Ficken
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ecological Restoration<\/strong>
Jonathan Bauer
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Education<\/strong>
Tracy Gartner
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Environmental Justice<\/strong>
Jorge Ramos
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Human Ecology<\/strong>
V. Beth Kueser
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Inclusive Ecology<\/strong>
Allyson Salisbury
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Invasion Ecology<\/strong>
Jessica Welch
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Long-term Studies<\/strong>
Morgan Ernest
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Microbial Ecology<\/strong>
Mario Muscarella
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Natural History<\/strong>
Susannah Lerman
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paleoecology<\/strong>
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Physiological Ecology<\/strong>
Michael Loik
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Plant Population Ecology<\/strong>
Nicole Rafferty
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Policy<\/strong>
Charlotte Levy
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Rangeland Ecology<\/strong>
Daniel Rubenstein
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Researchers at
Undergraduate Institutions<\/strong>
Daniel Scholes
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Soil Ecology<\/strong>
Daniel Stover
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Statistical Ecology<\/strong>
Masami Fujiwara
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Student Section<\/strong>
Callie Oldfield
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Theoretical Ecology<\/strong>
James O\u2019Dwyer
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Traditional Ecological
Knowledge<\/strong>
James Rattling Leaf
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Urban Ecosystem Ecology<\/strong>
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vegetation<\/strong>
Kyle Palmquist<\/td>\n		\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Chapter Chairs<\/h3><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Canada<\/strong>
Mark Boyce
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Great Lakes<\/strong>
Kenneth Zidell
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n		Latin America<\/strong>
Diogo Provete
\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mid-Atlantic<\/strong>
Vince D\u2019Amico<\/td>\n		Southeastern<\/strong>
Charles Kwit<\/td>\n		Southwestern<\/strong>
Tara Bishop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n


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