{"id":20,"date":"2013-10-07T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urban\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-05-18T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:15:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(1) promotes an understanding of the importance of urban ecosystems among ecologists and members of related disciplines<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(2) encourages education and research in urban ecosystem ecology<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(3) sponsors meetings and publications for the communication of research and educational activities in urban ecosystem ecology<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(4) encourages student participation in the Society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">We hope you will consider joining our section! See below for details on how to join. We also encourage you to follow and engage with us on social media!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UrbanEcosystemEcologySection\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UrbanEcosystemEcologySection<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">X (@UrbanEcosystems, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UrbanEcosystems\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/UrbanEcosystems<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To join us, fill out the membership form located on the ESA Membership site and scroll down to \u201cV. Section Affiliation\u201d and select \u201cUrban Ecosystem Ecology Section\u201d. Annual membership dues are $5. You can join us at any time, but you must be a member of ESA. If you\u2019re not already a member of ESA, you can go here on the ESA Membership site to join ESA. ESA memberships run January-December, regardless of when you join.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"well\">The Ecological Society of America welcomes all ecologists, supporters and enthusiasts as members, as do our many sections and chapters. There are no restrictions on membership nor participation in our programs.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">For information on 2025 awards, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/ehrenfeld-award\/\">Ehrenfeld award <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/student-awards\/\">Travel award<\/a> pages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America (1) promotes an understanding of the importance of urban ecosystems among ecologists and members of related disciplines (2) encourages education and research in urban ecosystem ecology (3) sponsors meetings and publications for the communication of research and educational activities in urban ecosystem ecology (4) encourages student participation in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11173,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/urbanecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}