{"id":222,"date":"2017-07-13T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/?p=222"},"modified":"2017-07-13T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T16:37:18","slug":"southwest-chapter-elections-and-esa-2017-meeting-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/2017\/07\/13\/southwest-chapter-elections-and-esa-2017-meeting-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest chapter elections and ESA 2017 meeting events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members are invited to vote for Southwest Chapter governance via electronic ballot. You\u2019ll receive shortly an email from Surveymonkey.com with the ballot. Please respond by\u00a0August 7th, 2017<\/span><\/span>\u00a0. Election results will be made official at the\u00a0Southwest Chapter Breakfast Social and Business<\/a>\u00a0meeting.<\/p>\n

Please take note of the Southwest Chapter\u2019s events at this year\u2019s ESA Annual Meeting:<\/p>\n

ESA Joint Section Mixer<\/em><\/strong>
\nMonday, August 7, 2017<\/span><\/span>:\u00a06:30 PM \u2013 8:00 PM<\/span><\/span>, Skyview Terrace, Oregon Convention Center<\/p>\n

Southwest Chapter Breakfast Social and Business Meeting\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nTuesday, August 8, \u00a07 AM \u2013 8 AM<\/span><\/span>, Alaska Room, Doubletree Hotel<\/p>\n

Ignite Session<\/em><\/strong>
\nIGN 13 \u2013 Bloom and Bust: Ecological Consequences of Precipitation Variability in Aridlands<\/em>
\nWednesday, August 9, 8 AM \u2013 9:30 AM<\/span><\/span>, C123 Oregon Convention Center:<\/p>\n

Annual Meeting Student Travel Award Winners \u2013 Southwest Chapter<\/em><\/strong>
\nPlease join us in congratulating our Southwest Chapter Student Travel Award winners, Brian Smithers, Tara Bishop, and Alessandro Filazzola. Our winners were selected from a great group of students! Please support our award recipients by attending their presentations at ESA:<\/p>\n

Brian Smithers<\/strong>, Upslope treeline shifts point to life stage climate envelope differences in Great Basin bristlecone pine forests, COS 126, D129-130,\u00a0Thursday August 10, 10:50am<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tara Bishop<\/strong>, Rodents disrupt invasive grass fire cycles, COS 187-8, E147-148,\u00a0Friday, August 11, 10:30am<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alessandro Filazzola<\/strong>, The inclusion of positive interactions in modeling the niche space of desert annuals, COS 65-10, B113,\u00a0Tuesday, August 8, 4:40pm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Be an ESA Meeting Mentor<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Ecological Society of America will again host the\u00a0Networking for Students and Early Career Professionals<\/em>\u00a0event at this year\u2019s Annual Meeting in Portland,<\/em>and is asking for approximately two to four volunteers from each section to participate as mentors. The event will take place on Sunday, August 6th<\/sup>, and is geared towards mentoring students of various levels, ranging from undergraduates to post-docs.
\nThis event is a result of members expressing interest in networking, career resources, and training opportunities in our Membership Survey six years ago, and a strong positive response in subsequent meetings. The idea is for participants to be able to speak to scientists from sections with discipline areas that are of interest to them. The primary goal of each Section\u2019s mentors will be to facilitate discussions with interested students, offer guidance on getting the most out of the Annual Meeting, and general advice about pursuing ecology at higher levels. There is a list of\u00a0Suggested Talking Points<\/strong>\u00a0attached to serve as guidelines, however mentors are encouraged to allow students to drive the conversation with their questions.
\nThe ESA also has a list of\u00a0Guidelines for Mentors.\u00a0<\/strong>We are asking each mentor to adhere to the guidelines, among which includes attending the Welcoming Reception after the\u00a0Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Plenary, and the\u00a0ESA Graduate Student, Post Docs, and Mentor\/Mentee Breakfast\u00a0<\/em>on Tuesday, August 8th<\/sup>, 2017, which is a ticketed event. The cost of the ticket ($5.00) covers the breakfast provided. Tickets can be purchased with your registration or at the registration desk on site; however, for everyone\u2019s convenience we do ask you to try to purchase your ticket ahead of time if possible.<\/p>\n

Members that are interested should respond as soon as possible (before\u00a0July 20<\/span><\/span>) to the SW Chapter Chair at\u00a0<\/strong>akelly5@ucmerced.edu<\/a>. Those selected will receive special recognition in the Portland Annual Meeting\u2019s addendum. We are very excited to be continuing this successful event and expect that it will again be very beneficial to many members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members are invited to vote for Southwest Chapter governance via electronic ballot. You\u2019ll receive shortly an email from Surveymonkey.com with the ballot. Please respond by\u00a0August 7th, 2017\u00a0. Election results will be made official at the\u00a0Southwest Chapter Breakfast Social and Business\u00a0meeting. Please take note of the Southwest Chapter\u2019s events at this year\u2019s ESA Annual Meeting: ESA Joint Section Mixer Monday, August…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/southwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}