ESA Webinars

Upcoming Webinars

ESA is pleased to present opportunities to learn more about key concepts in ecology, scientific careers, leadership, engagement skills, and more. Check back often, as we add content regularly! Are there any sessions that you’d like to see? Let us know! 

• Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology 5, January 7, 2025
• ESA’s Professional Ecologist Certification: Informational Session and Q&A, January 21, 2025
• Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology 6, February 4, 2025
• Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology 7, March 4, 2025

Past Webinars

These webinar sessions were held with Society members and shared with others in the ecological community.

TEK Series (organized by the ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section)

• Indigenous Science: A Non-Western Epistemology of Knowledge, May 20, 2022
• Lessons Learned and Considerations for Conducting Research with Tribes and Indigenous Peoples, April 8, 2022
• The Biden-Harris Administration’s Initiative to Elevate Indigenous TEK in Federal Decisionmaking, March 11, 2022
• Protecting TEK: The Role of Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, February 18, 2022
• Biocultural Restoration of Whitebark Pine on the Flathead Indian Reservation, January 28, 2022
• Indigenous Ethics, Protocols and Self-determination in Science and Research, December 3, 2021
• The Role of TEK in Building Circular Economies and Influencing Federal Land Tenure Policy Changes on Reservations, November 19, 2021
• Indigenous Values and the Preservation of Western Democracy, October 15, 2021
• Ethical Space, Science, Indigenous Knowledge: Conflict and Reconciliation in Ecological Management, September 24, 2021
• Integrating Western Science into Indigenous Knowledge Processes, August 20, 2021
• Guidelines for the Use of Traditional Knowledges, July 23, 2021
• Kiʔlawnaʔ (grizzly bear) – Alternative ways of knowing – Indigenous Knowledge systems, complexity sciences and forestry in the Okanagan, BC, Canada, June 18, 2021
• TEK: Learning from Our Mother, the Earth, May 21, 2021

Inclusive Ecology Spotlight Series

• Inclusive Ecology Spotlight Series: The Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Fieldwork Alliance, October 30, 2023
• The BioGraphI Faculty Mentoring Network, September 25, 2023

The Science of Ecology

• Differential Nutrient Strategies of AM and EcM Plants and Their Role in Soil Carbon Dynamics, December 4, 2024 (organized by ESA’s Asian Ecology Section)
• Evaluation of Terrestrial Ecosystem GHG Budget with a Process-based Model: 25 Years of VISIT Study, September 11, 2024 (organized by ESA’s Asian Ecology Section)
• Earth Observation — Coastal Urban Green Space and Blue Carbon, May 20, 2024 (organized by ESA’s Asian Ecology Section)
• Wavelet Approaches to Studies of Synchrony in Ecology, May 6, 2024 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• SpaDES for Developing and Running Spatial Discrete Event Simulation Models, April 15, 2024 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• A Scoping Study for a NASA Tropical Forest Terrestrial Ecology Campaign, March 18, 2024
• Thermal Optimality of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes, February 15, 2024 (organized by ESA’s Asian Ecology Section)
• antiMotum to Fit Latent Variable Movement Models to Animal Tracking Data, February 5, 2024 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Hierarchical Modeling of Species Communities, December 4, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Soil Microbes as a Driver of Global Carbon Cycle, November 21, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Asian Ecology Section)
• Ecological Forecasting with Dynamic Generalized Additive Models, November 6, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Integrated Species Distribution Models, May 1, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Bayesian Stable Isotope Mixing Models and the MixSIAR R package, April 3, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• State-space Models and the Template Model Builder (TMB) R package, March 6, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Spatial Modeling in Ecology, February 6, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Zero-Inflated GLM and GLMM, January 9, 2023 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Structural Equation Models and the piecewise SEM R package, December 5, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Spatial Occupancy Models and the spOccupancy R Package, October 3, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Hidden Markov Models in Ecology, May 2, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• NIMBLE, April 18, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Multi-species (Species Interactions) Occupancy Modeling, April 4, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Access NEON: Data Portal and Tools for Accessing and Understanding NEON Data, March 21, 2022 (presented by NEON)
• Integrated Step-selection Analysis, March 7, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Movement Ecology, February 7, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative) (R code and slides)
• Generalized Joint Attribute Modeling (GJAM), January 24, 2022 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative)
• Species Archetype Models and Regions of Common Profile Models, December 6, 2021 (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative) (resources and R code)
• Mixed Models (organized by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section and the Ecological Forecasting Initiative), November 1, 2021 (resources and R code)
• Putting LANDFIRE Data (and Models) to Work in the Scientific Community, September 16, 2021
• Determining the role of ruminant livestock in sustainable food systems – A global farm platform approach, March 24, 2021
• Eavesdropping on Animals: Autonomous Acoustic Wildlife Surveys, July 10, 2020
• Issues in Ecology #22: Innovative Finance for Conservation, Jan. 14, 2021
• Harnessing Private Foundation Funding for Your Research Project, April 9, 2020
• Futureproofing Natural History Collections, Jan. 22, 2020
• Wind Energy and Wildlife in the U.S.: State-of-the-Science and Recommendations for Future Research, Oct. 30, 2019
• Collecting, Mapping, Analyzing, and Communicating Location-based Data and Story Maps, Sept. 26, 2019
• Forecasting Ecology in a Changing World, May 23, 2019
• Using Concepts and Products of the USNVC to Address Agency-wide Business Needs, May 3, 2019
• Introduction to the U.S. National Vegetation Classification (USNVC), April 18, 2019

Careers in Ecology

• Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology 4, December 5, 2024
• Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology 3, November 7, 2024
• Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology 2, October 15, 2024
• Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology 1, September 18, 2024
• Navigating Academic Career Trajectories, October 24, 2023 (part of our new professional development program)
• Alt-Academic Career Q&A II, February 9, 2023 (organized by the Early Career Ecologists Section)
• Alt-Academic Career Q&A I, February 8, 2023 (organized by the Early Career Ecologists Section)
• The Value of ESA Certification, December 7, 2021
• Nonprofit careers for ecologists – Ecologists and Trends in the Private Sector and Markets: Natural capital trends and overview, November 3, 2021
• Ecology Careers in Focus: Choices in Education, April 23, 2020
• Ecology Careers in Focus: Nonprofit, Feb. 11, 2020
• Ecology Careers in Focus: Government, Jan. 29, 2020

Diversity in Ecology

• Field Program Perspectives on Diversity and Inclusion in Field Skills Development, March 23, 2021
• Employers’ Perspectives on Diversity in Skills Development for Fieldwork, Feb. 10, 2021
• Students’ Perspectives on Diversity in Skills Development for Fieldwork, Jan. 13, 2021

Communication and Engagement

• Eco-projects and Volunteering with Ecologists Without Borders, March 16, 2023
• Write a Good Abstract, Give a Better Talk, February 6, 2023
• Write a Good Title, Give a Better Talk, January 18, 2023
• Write a Good Title, Give a Better Talk, July 12, 2022
• Local Engagement Opportunities for Scientists, Sept. 30, 2020
• Evidence-based Communication Techniques for Talking about Climate Change, June 25, 2020
• Collaborating with Interpreters to Communicate Science in National Parks, June 4, 2020
• Sharing Science Clearly: Communicating Science through Data Visualization, July 9, 2019

Science Policy

• Chat With Biodiversity & Climate Change Assessment Authors (with Udall Foundation & USGS), November 15, 2024
• Protecting Wetlands for Healthy Communities and Ecosystems (with Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally), May 8, 2023
• Introducing the USGS Climate Research & Development Program, March 7, 2023
• ESA Water Cooler Chat: The National Nature Assessment, January 9, 2022
• National Nature Assessment, December 6, 2022
• Details on the National Climate Assessment, November 30, 2022
• ESA Water Cooler Chat: COP26 Debrief, January 27, 2022
• 2020 Election Results and What they Mean for Scientific and Environmental Policy, Nov. 9, 2020
• Graduate Student Policy Award Policy Careers Panel, Oct. 22, 2020
• Connecting with Congressional Committees to Inform Hearings, Sept. 10, 2020
• Invasive Species Policy and COVID-19, May 21, 2020
• What You Need to Know about the Nagoya Protocol, Access, and Benefit-sharing, March 26, 2020

Other ESA Business

• Awards Build Inclusion: Supporting Candidates for ESA Awards and Fellows, Sept. 29, 2022
• Forum on Enhancing ESA and Tribal Nations’ Engagement, Nov. 30, 2021
• A Q&A about Open Research and the ESA Data Policy, Feb. 17, 2021
• ESA’s Four Dimensional Framework for Ecology Education (4DEE): Opportunities and Challenges, Jan. 24, 2019