ESA Council
The Council of the Society serves as a forum for member participation in governance and strategy. Its responsibilities include
- Providing input during the development of the Society’s strategic plan
- Receiving reports from Committees, Sections and Chapters
- Approving the establishment and dissolution of Sections and Chapters
- Removing Governing Board members
- Approving changes in the Bylaws.
Council Leadership Team
The purpose of the Leadership Team is to coordinate the meetings and work of the Council, to nominate the Speaker-Elect, and to bring ideas to Council when needed. The Leadership Team shall consist of the Speaker-Elect, Speaker, Past Speaker, President, and Secretary.Â
Council Speaker-Elect Rachel Bowes, Aquatic Ecology Section |
Council Speaker Diogo Provete, Latin America & The Caribbean Chapter |
Past Speaker Emilie Graves, Policy Section |
Ex-officio Members | ESA President Stephanie Hampton |
ESA Secretary Emilio Bruna |
Council Representatives
The following ESA members have been selected to represent their respective sections and chapters on the ESA Council.
Section/Chapter | Representative | |
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Agroecology | Ben Iuliano | benjamin.iuliano@baruch.cuny.edu |
Applied Ecology | Renee Richer | renee.richer@dukekunshan.edu.cn |
Aquatic Ecology | Rachel Bowes | rbowes@emporia.edu |
Asian Ecology | Wei Ren | wei.ren@uconn.edu |
Biogeosciences | Becca Ryals | rryals@ucmerced.edu |
Black Ecologists | Matt McCary | matt.mccary@rice.edu |
Climate Adaptation | Laura Thompson | lthompson@usgs.gov |
Coastal and Marine Ecology | Natalia Lopez Figueroa | natalia28@usf.edu |
Communication and Engagement | Gina Errico | gerrico@hpu.edu |
Disease Ecology | Catherine Searle | searlec@purdue.edu |
Early Career Ecologist | Alyson East | a.east.ecology@gmail.com |
Ecological Restoration | Anisha Malik | anisha.malik@mbakerintl.com |
Education | Charu Nair | Chair.ESA.Education.Section@gmail.com |
Environmental Justice | Frederick Nelson | fanelson@ucdavis.edu |
Human Ecology | Kennedy Rubert-Nason | kennedy.rubertnason@maine.edu |
Inclusive Ecology | Allyson Salisbury | allyson.salisbury@gmail.com |
Invasion Ecology | Jess Hartshorn | jhartsh@clemson.edu |
Long Term Studies | Bryant Dossman | bd618@georgetown.edu |
Microbial Ecology | Mario Muscarella | memuscarella@alaska.edu |
Natural History | Susannah Lerman | susannah.b.lerman@usda.gov |
Open Science | Bruno Soares | bruno.soares@uregina.ca |
Paleoecology | Rachel Reid | rebreid@vt.edu |
Physiological Ecology | Daniel Stanton | stan0477@umn.edu |
Plant Population Ecology | Jennifer Gremer | jrgremer@ucdavis.edu |
Policy | Emilie Graves | eegraves@ucdavis.edu |
Public & Private Sector Ecologists | Aaron Stoler | |
Rangeland Ecology | Michael Duniway | |
Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions | Linda Auker | lauker@misericordia.edu |
Soil Ecology | Lydia Zeglin | lzeglin@ksu.edu |
Statistical Ecology | Vianey Leos Barajas | vianey.leosbarajas@utoronto.ca |
Student Section | Megan Garvey | garvey3@clemson.edu |
Theoretical Ecology | Fernanda Valdovinos | fvaldovinos@ucdavis.edu |
Traditional Ecological Knowledge | Danielle Ignace | dignace@umn.edu |
Urban Ecosystem Ecology | Matthew Lundquist | mlundquist@mmm.edu |
Vegetation | Carissa Brown | carissa.brown@mun.ca |
Women in Soil Ecology | Sierra Jech | sierra.jech@colorado.edu |
Canada Chapter | Emily Holden | eholden@ualberta.ca |
Great Lakes Chapter | Lekeah Durden | l.durden@uga.edu |
Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter | Diogo Provete | diogo.provete@ufms.br |
Mid-Atlantic Chapter | Lea Johnson | ljohnson@longwoodgardens.org |
Southeast Chapter | LaRoy Brandt | laroy.brandt@lmunet.edu |
Southwest Chapter | Rebecca Finger-Higgens | rfinger-higgens@usgs.gov |