Leadership Corner

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…

Blog post by ESA President Osvaldo Sala On April 9, I represented ESA in a meeting with Joanne Tornow, NSF assistant director for the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). Tornow organized the Zoom meeting to listen to concerns of scientific society leaders and to inform us of NSF’s COVID-19 pandemic response. The other attendees were presidents and CEOs of…

  Blogpost by Osvaldo Sala, ESA President On December 18, ESA joined 125 other societies in sending a letter to address a potential Trump administration executive order that would require all papers produced by federally funded research be made freely available immediately upon publication. While ESA supports open data and facilitates the accessibility of its science content to the broadest…