Section Officers
For 2002-2004 the new section officers are:

Chair: Paulette Ford, Research Ecologist
Rocky Mountain Research Station
333 Broadway SE, Suite 115
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102-3497, USA
Telephone: 505-766-1044
Fax: 505-766-1046
E-mail: plford@fs.fed.us

Vice Chair: Jon Keeley
US Geological Survey
Western Ecological Research Center
6000 J Street, Placer Hall
Sacramento, CA 95819-6129
Telephone: 559-565-3170
Fax: 559-565-3177
Email: jon_keeley@usgs.gov

Secretary: Dan Binkley
Professor, Department of Forest Sciences
Director, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523 USA
Telephone: 970 491 6519
Fax: 970 491 2796
Email: dan@cnr.colostate.edu

Students Travel Awards for the ESA 2002 Annual Meeting
Three students were selected to receive travel awards of $250 to attend the ESA 2002 Annual Meeting. These students are:

Betsy Galbraith, an MS student from the University of Wisconsin working on species diversity in managed white pine forests,

Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, a PhD student in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia working on urbanization impacts on soil quality, and

Joanne Tippett, a graduate student from the University of Manchester working on Integrated catchement management and planning for sustainability - the case of the Mersey Basin Campaign.

Conference Sponsorship
The Applied Ecology section has provided $500 in support of an American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference entitled "Ecohydrology of Semiarid Landscapes: Interactions and Processes" on 9-13 September 2002 in Taos, New Mexico. More details for this international conference, including designation of the section as a co-sponsor, are listed at

http//agu.org/meetings/cc02dcall.html#Cosponsors
http//agu.org/meetings/cc02dcall.html

Web Page
The Section web page has been completely revised and updated as of August, 2002. The revised site has been submitted to ESA for incorporation into the ESA web site.

2002 Annual Meeting
The Applied Ecology Section is a sponsor or co-sponsor of 4 symposia at this year's annual meeting in Tucson:

Symposium #3: Ecological Theory and Restoration Ecology,

Symposium #15: Fire and Invasive Plant Ecology and Management: the Need for Integration to Effectively Restore Ecosystems,

Symposium #18: Understanding and Restoring Watersheds and Riparian Systems at Risk: The Great Basin Ecosystem Management Project, and

Symposium #19: Cities of Resilience: Integrating Ecology into Urban Planning, Design, Policy, and Management

In order to broaden section membership interactions within ESA the Applied Ecology section is co hosting a social/mixer with the Soil Ecology Section and the Rangeland Ecology Section at the 2002 Tucson meeting.

Respectfully submitted,
Kris Havstad
khavstad@nmsu.edu
Applied Ecology Section Chair, 2000-2002