The Applied Ecology Section of The Ecological Society of America {ESA}

The Applied Ecology Section seeks to encourage research and the sponsorship of meetings to facilitate communication of results in all phases of the application of ecological principles to the solution of practical environmental problems associated with providing for the needs and requirements of our increasing human population. The Section specifically encourages active and sustained relationships with and among those specialists in public policy, public administration, law, engineering, education, urban and regional planning, public health, political science, agriculture, and natural resources who use ecological principles in the resolution of their problems. Each year the Section awards travel money to students who are traveling to the ESA Annual Meeting to make presentations in applied ecology.

Chairs Corner

Welcome to the Applied Ecology Section webpage of the Ecological Society of America. We hope you find this site useful. We have provided information on the officers of the section, annual activities, our bylaws, and past and current newsletters.

The Applied Ecology Section of ESA is the second-largest and third-oldest of the active sections within this Society. The Section was established in 1971 and has a two-fold purpose:

1) To facilitate communication about applying ecological principles to solve practical environmental problems, and 2) To encourage liaison with specialists in policy, administration, planning, health, agriculture and natural resource management who use ecological principles to resolve problems.

The officers of the Applied Ecology Section are here to assist you. In addition to the Chair, we have a vice-chair (Dr. Hal Balbach) and a secretary (Dr. Gillian Bowser). Currently our main activities include symposia sponsorship, evaluating and awarding Section student travel grants, and evaluating applications for student travel grants offered through SERDP. We also host a mixer at the Annual Meeting which is held jointly with the Agroecology, Rangelands, Long-Term Studies and Soil Ecology Sections. The response we've been receiving to the Section's student scholarships has been great over the past several years, and recipients have included students from the U.S., Newfoundland, Argentina, France and Benin (Africa). We will continue to provide travel assistance to students presenting at the meetings. Section Officers are in frequent communication via email and to focus our work. We have endorsed Symposium proposals for each of the past three years, and section officers have developed Organized Oral Sessions at the 2007 and 2008 Annual Meetings, and are proposing a session for the 2009 meeting.

We want to make membership in this section relevant to you and to cultivate close links between research and application. Feel free to contact any of the officers with any comments or suggestions.

Best regards!
Scott Roberts, Chair, Applied Ecology Section

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