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Professor Juan Armesto, an academic at the Catholic University of Chile, received the ESA Whittaker Prize.

Dr Raj Whitlock, a Senior Lecturer in the University’s Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, is a 2021 recipient of ESA’s prestigious George Mercer Award.

ESA announced Howard University Professor of Biology George A. Middendorf as the winner of its 2021 Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education.

A five-year study by the University of Wyoming researchers of mule deer does and newborn fawns in western Wyoming shows that migrating deer have a lot to balance when it comes to birth timing.

Researchers at CU Boulder find that common plants and pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity and may also serve as buffers against some impacts of climate change.

Piping plovers, charismatic shorebirds that nest and feed on many Atlantic Coast beaches, rely on different kinds of coastal habitats in different regions along the Atlantic Coast, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A 2017 study from ORNL that shows the far-reaching impacts of U.S. cities’ energy consumption on regional ecosystems has received the 2021 Sustainability Science Award from ESA.

A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Florida has developed new decision-making tools to help park managers put a dent in the multibillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade while staying within their budgets.

Joshua Lawler, a University of Washington professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, has been named a 2021 fellow of ESA.

ESA has chosen Erika Zavaleta, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, to receive our 2021 Commitment to Human Diversity in Ecology Award.

Ryan A. McManamay, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental science at Baylor University, is among the recipients of the Sustainability Science Award announced today by the ESA.

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo biology professor Rebecca Ostertag has been elected a 2021 fellow of the nation’s largest organization of professional ecologists.

In a study published in the journal Ecological Applications, a Duke-led team mined 35 years of satellite images of a 245,000-acre area in the state’s Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula.

A faculty-undergraduate research team from William & Mary documented cannibalism amongst juvenile sea stars.

A study conducted by a group of 10 environmental scientists, including Matthew Troia, assistant professor of environmental science at UTSA, was awarded ESA’s 2021 Sustainability Science Award.

ESA’s George Mercer Award has been awarded to Brit Laginhas, a first-year student at North Carolina State University’s Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. program, and her coauthors.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie coauthored a new paper titled “Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades” published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Ecologist Desirée L. Narango of Umass Amherst won the Early Career Award from ESA—an award given to junior researchers who “have advanced ecological knowledge” and show “promise of continuing to make outstanding contributions” in the field of ecology.

Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon biology professor, has been named a fellow by the Ecological Society of America.

Jennifer Sunday named Early Career Fellow by ESA for her research examining how species and ecosystems respond to climate change.