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This is Winslow Hansen, \u00a0your ESA Student Section Chair. I wanted to let everyone know that the ESA Student Section will be holding elections for open positions during early September<\/strong>. If you are interested in becoming more involved in the student section,\u00a0we are taking nominations for the 2015-2016 leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n This year I will be focusing on taking the Student Section to the next level as an organization so that we can better serve and provide resources to the student members of ESA.\u00a0 To accomplish this I am seeking motivated, innovative and engaged students that want to help shape the future of the Student Section.\u00a0 Here are the open positions:<\/p>\n Vice Chair:<\/strong><\/p>\n Liaise between ESA SS Board & Section Liaisons<\/p>\n Edit and post Liaison blog entries<\/p>\n \u201cAttend\u201d bi-weekly board Skype meetings Assist with the planning and running of section events: Student Mixer, Workshops (ex: Jobs & Funding Workshops), Special Sections (i.e. Orientation)<\/p>\n \u00a0Take over as Chair the Business Meeting in 2016<\/p>\n Secretary:<\/strong><\/p>\n Treasurer:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Liaisons (See list of sections at the end of the post):<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n If you are interested:<\/p>\n Since we want to be more fair and transparent in our elections this year, we are going to hold online elections for all of the positions for which we have nominees. Some of these positions have multiple nominees, so if you are interested please submit a short paragraph explaining who you are, why you would like the position you\u2019ve selected, and what you bring to the table.\u00a0Your personal statements are due by September 4th 2015. Please email them to students.esa@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n SECTIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n Applied Ecology<\/p>\n Agroecolog<\/p>\n Aquatic Ecology<\/p>\n Biogeosciences<\/p>\n Disease Ecology<\/p>\n Education<\/p>\n Environmental Justice<\/p>\n Human Ecology<\/p>\n International Affairs<\/p>\n INNGE (This is the International Network of Next-Generation Ecologists [http:\/\/innge.net<\/a>] and they want a liaison to help put ESA on the world map \u2013 this would be a major opportunity to do some fun stuff with international folks at all levels, not just grad students.)<\/p>\n Invasive Species<\/p>\n Long-term Studies<\/p>\n Microbial Ecology<\/p>\n Paleoecology<\/p>\n Physiology<\/p>\n Plant Population Ecology<\/p>\n Rangeland Ecology<\/p>\n Researchers at Undergrad. Inst.<\/p>\n\n
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