Ecology Careers Q&A: Skills to Build to Be Competitive on the Job Market
Q: What specific skills should I focus on developing during my time as a graduate student to be competitive in environmental consulting?
Jon Miller
A Letter From the Executive Director
ESA members, I am especially pleased with all that ESA was able to accomplish in 2024. The year began with staff supporting the strategic planning process, led by President-elect Stephanie Hampton, gathering information and feedback from many constituents. The ESA Governing Board adopted a new 3-year strategic plan in May, and rolled it out to the membership at the Annual…
Read MoreESA’s 2024 Year in Review
This letter to our members is by Past President Shahid Naeem It’s my honor as 2024 ESA President to write a letter to the members, to sum up our accomplishments and introduce the full annual report. Since we realistically have to wait until the year is over to work on that, we typically don’t start until late in the winter…
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Ecology Careers Q&A: Career Options with a Doctorate
Is environmental consulting a viable path for a person who will soon graduate with a doctorate? Does having a PhD make you overqualified to certain jobs?
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Ecology Careers Q&A: Getting Your Foot in the Door with a Bachelor’s Degree
Q: Do you have any tips for getting your foot in the door in the environmental consulting world after graduating from undergrad?
Ecology Careers Q&A: Where to Find Jobs in Consulting
Q: Are there certain job boards other than the ECOLOG or Conservation Job Board you would recommend?
A Rousing Success at the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting
Contributed by ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Chair Lea Johnson On April 5, nearly 300 ecologists—faculty, students, and practitioners—gathered at Longwood Gardens for what we’re told may have been the largest meeting of ESA’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter in its decades-long history. As chair of the regional chapter for the year, I was also chair of the meeting – so the enthusiastic participation this…
ECOLOG-L Update to the Ecological Community
Updated October 28, 2024 Migration is now complete! ECOLOG-L is now fully functional on Simplelists. Here are instructions. The ECO community is fully functional on Discourse (though bear with us a bit, we may still need to iron out a few kinks). You can still participate if you don’t yet have an ESA account! Start your free web account with…
Welcome to Sweden
No, not Greg Poehler’s short-lived international sitcom by the same name, but very literally what the hotel clerk said when I checked in. He smiled; since I’d been practicing on Duolingo for a few weeks and had hoped to proudly correctly pronounce Tack så mycket and instead replied (translated) “you’re welcome,” I did not. Blame the jet lag. Nonetheless, greetings from…
Ecology Doesn’t Stop at the Coast: ESA at the Ocean Sciences Meeting
By Adrienne Sponberg ESA recently joined more than 6,000 ocean scientists from around the world at the bi-annual Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) in New Orleans. OSM is a joint meeting between the American Geophysical Union, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography and the Oceanography Society. Executive Director Catherine O’Riordan and Director of Society Programs Adrienne Sponberg staffed the ESA…
Give and Help Us Take Our Next Great Stride Forward
By ESA President Shahid Naeem It’s now February and, as ESA’s President, I realize that my term is almost half over. It is a good time to reflect on our accomplishments from the past few months, while realizing that these have been possible because of the hard work of ESA members over many years. I’ve been with ESA since 1984,…
Guest Post: Why You Should Nominate for Awards
Guest post by ESA Awards Chair Nate Sanders Do you know that feeling when one of your graduate students gets their first paper published? When a postdoc in your lab lands the job of their dreams? When a policy you’ve been working on finally gets implemented, and you can see it’s having positive effects on an environmental issue? Doesn’t that…