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Baltimore Green Space Receives Environmental Offset from the Ecological Society of America

This year, ESA’s annual meeting offset donation is going to Baltimore’s only environmental land trust.

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Science on the Hill

ESA staff recently attended an event on Capitol Hill highlighting the importance of federal support for R&D

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Science Policy at #ESA2025: Policy-oriented sessions and other events at the Annual Meeting

Don’t miss the exciting lineup of events focused on policymaking, communication and real-world impact at ESA’s Annual Meeting.

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Updates From ESA Leadership

Dear ESA Members, We, as Governing Board Members of ESA, in light of current events in our nation, with impacts that affect all of us locally and globally, write to you today to offer encouragement and to assure that there is a path forward.

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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 donโ€™t yet have an ESA account! Start your free web account with…

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Welcome to Sweden

No, not Greg Poehlerโ€™s short-lived international sitcom by the same name, but very literally what the hotel clerk said when I checked in. He smiled; since Iโ€™d been practicing on Duolingo for a few weeks and had hoped to proudly correctly pronounce Tack sรฅ mycketย and instead replied (translated) โ€œyouโ€™re welcome,โ€ I did not. Blame the jet lag. Nonetheless, greetings from…

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Ecology Doesnโ€™t Stop at the Coast: ESA at the Ocean Sciences Meeting

By Adrienne Sponberg ESA recently joined more thanย 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 Oโ€™Riordan and Director of Society Programs Adrienne Sponberg staffed the ESA…

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Give and Help Us Take Our Next Great Stride Forward

By ESA President Shahid Naeem Itโ€™s now February and, as ESAโ€™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. Iโ€™ve been with ESA since 1984,…

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The Blueprint Foundation Receives Environmental Offsets from the Ecological Society of America

Large conferences leave a large environmental footprint โ€“ with air travel, accommodations, and production of single-use items all generating substantial carbon emissions and impacts on surrounding wildlife and habitats. As a way of offsetting a portion of the environmental costs of its Annual Meeting, ESA contributes $5 for each meeting registrant, which the Society then donates to a local project…

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