The Ecological Society of America is the country's primary professional organization of ecologists, representing over 10,000 scientists in the United States and around the world.
Since its founding in 1915, ESA has diligently pursued the promotion of the responsible application of ecological principles to the solution of environmental problems through ESA reports, journals, research, and expert testimony to Congress.
ESA offers a professional Certification Program for ecologists. ESA maintains a List of Certified Ecologists.
Membership Benefits include:
- Networking opportunities and contacts with over 9,000 professional ecologists worldwide through the on-line ESA Membership Directory, through Section and Chapter, activities and the Annual Meeting and other conferences.
- Advanced notification of employment opportunities.
- Substantial cost savings on registration for the Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting that draws more than 3,000 professional ecologists from around the world.
- Membership - only subscriptions to the Society's well respected and highly cited scientific journals - Ecology, Ecological Monographs, and Ecological Applications - which provide the latest peer-reviewed research worldwide.
- Subscription to Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a world-class journal of interdisciplinary science for scientists, researchers, resource managers, policy-makers and educators.
- Representation in the policy arena: ESA ensures that ecological science informs national policy decisions and works to garner federal support for ecological research.
- Opportunity to join any of the five chapters or twenty sections.
- Discounted subscription rates to Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, published by American Society of Agronomy.
- Discounted subscription rates to Journal of Biological Dynamics, published by Taylor and Francis.
- The Society works with national and international media to convey ecological research results to the general public.
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