{"id":330,"date":"2016-02-13T22:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T22:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students-preprod\/2016\/02\/13\/2016-2-13-februarys-section-connection-blog\/"},"modified":"2016-02-13T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T22:35:27","slug":"2016-2-13-februarys-section-connection-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/2016\/02\/13\/2016-2-13-februarys-section-connection-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"February\u2019s Section Connection Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Greetings Students,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">This blog consists of monthly entries from your Student Section liaisons describing exciting news and opportunities about ESA sections and committees and how to get more out of ESA. Here is February\u2019s Section Connection Blog from Jessica Moore of ESA\u2019s Microbial Ecology Section. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">News<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">: One thing the ESA Microbial Ecology Section takes seriously: community outreach! We donated compost kits to the Cheery Hill Urban Garden (pictured) and the Chesapeake Center for Youth Development during the 2015 ESA Meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Opportunities<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Our section also offers student travel awards that were up to $500 at past meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">What you wish you had known when you first joined ESA<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">: When I first joined ESA, I wish I would have known that volunteering to staff the Microbial Ecology booth during poster sessions would open doors to networking and collaborating opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Contact<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">: You can learn more about our section and get your very own I \u201cheart\u201d microbes t-shirt on our website esa.org\/microbial or by following us on Twitter @esamicrobe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\">This blog consists of monthly entries from your Student Section liaisons describing exciting news and opportunities about ESA sections and committees and how to get more out of ESA. Here is February\u2019s Section Connection Blog from Jessica Moore of ESA\u2019s Microbial Ecology Section.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}