103rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America: Extreme events, ecosystem resilience and human well-being 5–10 August 2018 July 5, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, zgentes@esa.org With the increased likelihood of extreme weather events and sea-level rise associated with climate change, flooding poses a major risk to coastal regions. Seawater flooding is not only…
103rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America: Extreme events, ecosystem resilience and human well-being 5–10 August 2018 June 22, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, zgentes@esa.org Tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme windstorm events cause millions of dollars in structural damage and related losses each year. They can also significantly damage ecosystems systems, driving…
Awards recognize students for exceptional research and outstanding presentations at the 2017 Annual Meeting June 19, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, zgentes@esa.org The Ecological Society of America recognizes Michael T. Kohl, Benjamin J. Wilson, and Emily E. Ernst for awards for outstanding student research. The Murray F. Buell and E. Lucy Braun awards are given…
Extreme Events, Ecosystem Resilience and Human Well-being June 12, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, zgentes@esa.org Extreme events – such as heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and storms – are made worse by human activities. For example, past civilizations, such as the Maya and Mesopotamians, apparently exacerbated the droughts that caused their demise through deforestation and…
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday May 30 Contact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, zgentes@esa.org New eDNA method to track down sneaky stink bug pioneers before they destroy crops Quantifying the cultural importance of the Great Barrier Reef How to use eco-engineering to make underwater structures more fish-friendly Effects of Canadian oil sands drilling on moose,…
Thursday, 24 May 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Alison Mize, 202-833-8773 ext. 205, alison@esa.org Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming the remote Oombulgurri floodplains of tropical Western Australia, ecologists report in the Ecological Society of America’s open access journal Ecosphere. But boldness has a cost: bold individuals expose…
Wednesday April 25, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Alison Mize, 202-833-8773 ext. 205, alison@esa.org The Ecological Society of America is concerned with reports that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a rule that would require all data from scientific studies be made public and be reproducible. Over the past 50 years the EPA has worked to protect public health…
Bees are not the only animals that carry pollen from flower to flower. Species with backbones, among them bats, birds, mice, and even lizards, also serve as pollinators. Although less familiar as flower visitors than insect pollinators, vertebrate pollinators are more likely to have coevolved tight relationships of high value to the plants they service, supplying essential reproductive aid for which few or no other species may substitute.
RELEASE DATE: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 Contact: Alison Mize, alison@esa.org, (202) 833-8773 ext. 205 The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). This award provides graduate students with the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. for policy experience and training. Ten recipients were…
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will present the 2018 awards recognizing outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity, and lifelong commitment to the profession during the Society’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La.
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2018 Fellows. The Society’s fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and management and policy.
Extreme events, ecosystem resilience, and human wellbeing 5–10 August 2018 Environmental scientists, educators, and policy makers will gather at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana this August 5th through 10th, 2018, for the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Ecologists from around the world attend the 5-day conference, which is expected to host…
A special issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment looks for new solutions to old problems by pooling the knowledge of scientists, ranchers, feds, community groups, and tribes Thursday, 8 February 2018 For Immediate Release Ecological Socitey of America Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, LLester@esa.org University of Idaho Contact: Phillip Bogdan, 208-885-4155, pbogdan@uidaho.edu Tension between the needs of…
Thursday, 8 February 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Alison Mize, 202-833-8773 ext. 205, alison@esa.org Washington D.C.—The ESA Governing Board announced today that Dr. Catherine O’Riordan, interim co-CEO and chief operating officer of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), will join the Society’s staff as its new executive director on April 16. O’Riordan, an ocean scientist and highly accomplished association…
Tuesday, 19 December 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, LLester@esa.org In a frozen lake in Quebec, tiny red creatures zip about under the ice. Guillaume Grosbois and Milla Rautio, researchers at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Québec, Canada report the discovery of active life in a winter lake today in the Ecological Society…
Dark nights offer best chance of survival for sixbar wrasse leaving the open ocean for the reef, but risky moonlit swims may grant a fitness edge to survivors Monday, 18 December 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, LLester@esa.org Parents’ choices about when to breed have lifelong consequences for offspring. For the sixbar wrasse, the flexibility of…
A study published in Ecological Monographs follows 9,685 wandering albatrosses throughout their long lives, seeking the intrinsic differences that make some individuals outstanding performers Thursday, 7 December 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, LLester@esa.org When ecologists study populations of animals, they commonly round off the individuality of individuals, treating animals of the same species, sex, and…
The recovery of the wild turkey is a great restoration success story. But concerns have been rising over the specter of declines in some areas. Lack of reliable tools to estimate abundance of turkeys has increased uncertainty for managers. So wildlife researchers at Michigan State University investigated how to harvest wild turkeys sustainably when information is imperfect in a study published this fall in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecological Applications.
Montana scientists project pathways to wider mating pools in the Northern Rockies, based on characteristic movements of male bears
Penguins caught on camera eating jellyfish Monday, 25 September 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, LLester@esa.org Footage from penguin-mounted mini video recorders shows four species of penguin eating jellyfish and other gelatinous animals of the open ocean, a food source penguins were not previously believed to partake of, scientists report this month in the Ecological…