External Press Releases — Page 20

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.

A new study published this month (March 2021) in the journal Ecological Applications reveals that migratory habitat for the Whooping Crane is being gradually reduced by wind energy development.

Dr. Stefan Schnitzer, Mellon Distinguished Professor of Plant Community and Tropical Forest Ecology, and Dr. Nathan Lemoine, assistant professor of trophic and quantitative ecology, in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences have been named fellows by the Ecological Society of America.

University of Georgia professor Pejman Rohani and alumnus Shuijin Hu are among a group of distinguished scientists elected Fellows of the Ecological Society of America in 2021, the organization announced March 25, 2021.

Biologists including Eleanor Pardini at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered that climate change represents a specific extinction threat for an endangered coastal lupine plant.

On Thursday, March 25, Dr. William Morris of Duke University was named a 2021 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Morris’ research focuses on understanding how plants and the insects that eat and pollinate them respond to climate change.

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has added Pedro Peres-Neto, professor in Concordia’s Department of Biology, to its esteemed list of fellows.

University of Rhode Island Professor Laura Meyerson has been elected a fellow of the Ecological Society of America for her contributions to ecological research and policy.

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) recently announced its 2021 ESA Fellow awards, which recognize scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field, and UC Santa Cruz’s faculty were the most decorated of any university on this year’s list.  

Lauren Shoemaker, a University of Wyoming assistant professor in the Department of Botany, has been selected as a 2021-25 Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

For his work advancing our understanding of the recovery of degraded marine species and ecosystems, Adrian Stier of UC Santa Barbara has been named a 2021 Early Career Fellow by ESA.

Jay T. Lennon, a professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology, has been elected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.