This year’s Annual Meeting theme is Supporting Ecologists Throughout Their Careers, so we’re putting extra emphasis on helping ecologists at all career levels — but especially students, early career scientists and those making career transitions — navigate their way to career success.
Here are activities you can put on your agenda to see to your own career development!
Training
Enhance your skills, or even learn completely new ones, through this year’s suite of workshops and short courses.
- Multiple learning opportunities in R: Sparse modeling, quantitative community ecology, heatmaps and bubble plots, GLMM
- Bioacoustic surveys
- Science communication
- Bioinformatics
- Datasets, analysis and synthesis
- Ecology education
- Policy outreach training
You can select among these and dozens of others you’d like to attend when you register — spots are filling up fast!
Mentoring
We will individually link to these sessions as the program migrates online.
Mentoring, whether in one-on-one, peer group or other settings, is one of the most effective ways for people to navigate complicated career pathways. Within our theme, we are pleased to be able to include several different activities to serve as a mentor, learn effective best practices in mentoring, and be mentored.
- SEEDS Student Mentoring: Our award-winning undergraduate program seeks meeting mentors for at least 30 students participating through the program. Activities may be held throughout the week.
- Early Career Ecologists Mentoring: Scheduled for August 6 at 11:45 AM.
- Other ESA sections will also be hosting mentoring. Watch this space and your email inbox for updates as we have them.
- Dedicated sessions to promote effective mentoring include:
- August 4: Entering Mentoring — An Interactive Short Course on Evidence-based Practices for Mentorship (SC 1) *requires advance registration
- August 8: Promoting Research Self-efficacy to Facilitate Inclusion in Mentoring Relationships (WK 1) *requires advance registration
Career Central
Our popular hub of career content returns to the exhibit hall with another three-day block of sessions designed to help ecologists navigate their careers.
- Explore a diverse array of careers with ecologists in those occupations
- Chart a pathway toward rewarding careers in research, practice, education and policy
- Get one-on-one help with your CV, resume or interview skills
- Meet — and network with — the editors-in-chief of ESA’s journals
- Get unique guidance on your job search
- Learn how to prioritize your wellness, not just your professional and scientific skills