Briefings

ESA sponsors or co-sponsors congressional briefings in which ESA members and other experts inform congressional staff on the science behind issues of importance to lawmakers, such as biofuels, wildfires, invasive species, and climate change. Recent briefings include:

• ESA and USGS Partner to Hold a Chesapeake Bay Roundtable Discussion on Capitol Hill
• Climate Engineering: Future Guiding Principles and Ethics
• The Ecology of Zoonotic Diseases
• Using Science to Improve Flood Management
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
• Water Resources in the West: Assessing Tradeoffs in a Changing Climate
• Climate Change: Intersections of Climate and Policy
• From Agricultural to Urban Ecosystems: Nature’s Services to Humankind
• After the Fire: Approaches to Revitalizing Ecosystem Resources
• The Sustainability of Cellulosic Biofuels