{"id":24,"date":"2019-06-17T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students-preprod\/what-we-do\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T20:51:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:51:45","slug":"what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/about\/what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"text-align-center\">Welcome to the ESA Student Section<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\">An organization dedicated to meeting the needs of ecology students and providing the networking and professional development opportunities to help them succeed in their careers and continue advancing the field of ecological science.\u00a0 Since our inception in 2000, we have served as the primary advocate for undergraduate and graduate student members of the ESA and have worked to facilitate communication among students, between students and with the Society as a whole. We remain one of the largest communities of young ecologists in the world.<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"text-align-center\"><a href=\"\/become-a-member\">Become A Student Section Member Today!\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<hr>\n<h3>ACTIVITIES<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Represent the interests of undergraduate and graduate student members of the ESA through partnerships with the ESA leadership and governing board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Networking opportunities for collaboration and idea sharing, such as our annual Student Orientation, Student Mixer and Student Night Out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitate conversations among students via social media avenues, including blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Include Facebook and Twitter Links<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Grants and Awards to honor academic excellence and offer travel support to the annual meeting for Student Section members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional development workshops that target the expressed needs of Student Section members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To become a member of the Student Section or learn more about membership details, simply<a href=\"\/become-a-member\"> CLICK HERE<\/a> and follow the instructions provided.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 class=\"text-align-center\">Join our mailing list to Find out about Grants, Awards, and ESA News!<\/h2>\n<div class=\"form-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"form-inner-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"field-list clear\">\n<fieldset id=\"name-yui_3_17_2_1_1445965568773_36863\" class=\"form-item fields name required\">\n<div class=\"title\">Sign up for ESA Student Section Updates! <span class=\"required\">*<\/span><\/div>\n<legend>Sign up for ESA Student Section Updates!<\/legend>\n<div class=\"field first-name\">\n                  <label class=\"caption\"><br>\n                  First Name<\/label>\n                <\/div>\n<div class=\"field last-name\">\n                  <label class=\"caption\"><br>\n                  Last Name<\/label>\n                <\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n<div id=\"email-yui_3_17_2_1_1445965568773_37202\" class=\"form-item field email required\">\n                <label class=\"title\" for=\"email-yui_3_17_2_1_1445965568773_37202-field\">Email Address <span class=\"required\">*<\/span><\/label><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"form-button-wrapper form-button-wrapper--align-left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden form-submission-text\">Thank you!<\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden form-submission-html\" data-submission-html=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sqs-svg-icon--outer social-icon-alignment-center social-icons-color-black social-icons-size-large social-icons-shape-circle social-icons-style-knockout\">\n<nav class=\"sqs-svg-icon--list\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esa_students\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sqs-svg-icon--wrapper twitter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p>    <\/p><\/a><a href=\"mailto:students.esa@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sqs-svg-icon--wrapper email\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p>    <\/p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ecological-Society-of-America-Student-Section\/761632403864881\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sqs-svg-icon--wrapper facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p>    <\/p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/esa_students\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sqs-svg-icon--wrapper instagram\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p>    <\/p><\/a><br>\n  <\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<blockquote><p>\n    <span>\u201c<\/span>The Student Section empowers young ecologists to take an active role in the future of ESA and the field of ecology.<span>\u201d<\/span><br>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote><figcaption class=\"source\">\u2014 Kika Tarsi, 2014 Chair of the Student Section<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the ESA Student Section An organization dedicated to meeting the needs of ecology students and providing the networking and professional development opportunities to help them succeed in their careers and continue advancing the field of ecological science.\u00a0 Since our inception in 2000, we have served as the primary advocate for undergraduate and graduate student members of the ESA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":136,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}