{"id":311,"date":"2023-08-28T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2025-04-23T19:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:48:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Purpose<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #212529;\">The Private and Public Sector Ecologists Section encourages networking between professionals who work in for-profit or not-for-profit businesses or governmental agencies, whose primary professional focus is application of ecological science.\u00a0 The section seeks to build value for scientists in these fields among ESA in terms of programs and member benefits, and to represent these scientists\u2019 interests in ESA\u2019s leadership. Members with an interest in furthering the application of ecological knowledge, regardless of their career area, are encouraged to join the Section.\u00a0 Read more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2024\/01\/2023-p-p-section-bylaws.pdf\">Section Bylaws.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"well\">The Ecological Society of America welcomes all ecologists, supporters and enthusiasts as members, as do our many sections and chapters. There are no restrictions on membership nor participation in our programs.<\/div>\n<h1>Leadership\u00a0<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Past chair:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nuttle.tim@gmail.com\">Tim Nuttle<\/a>, Oikos LLC (private sector)<\/li>\n<li>Senior co-chair:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:aaron.b.stoler@exxonmobil.com\">Aaron Stoler<\/a>, ExxonMobil (private sector)<\/li>\n<li>Junior co-chair: Sarah Anderson<\/li>\n<li>Chair-elect: Open (private sector rotation)<\/li>\n<li>Web: <a href=\"mailto:adeines@exponent.com\">Andy Deines<\/a>, Exponent (private sector)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/public-and-private-webinar-series\/\">PPSES Webinar Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2024\/10\/Council-Report-PPSES_24.pdf\">2024 Annual Report for PPSES<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"citation__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/fee.1941\">Ecological consultants: serving on the front lines of species and ecosystem conservation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose The Private and Public Sector Ecologists Section encourages networking between professionals who work in for-profit or not-for-profit businesses or governmental agencies, whose primary professional focus is application of ecological science.\u00a0 The section seeks to build value for scientists in these fields among ESA in terms of programs and member benefits, and to represent these scientists\u2019 interests in ESA\u2019s leadership&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/pps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}