News – August 2017

Posted by on August 3, 2017

Greetings, ESA Ecological Restoration Section members!

 

The 2017 annual meeting is less than two weeks away, and we wanted to take this opportunity to share some of the Section activities you can enjoy in Portland:

  • Our business meeting will be held Tuesday, Aug. 8, 6:30-8 pm, in room 257 of the Oregon Convention Center. We hope everyone who’s going to ESA this year will join us to help us plan our efforts to raise the profile of ecological restoration within the Society and to support restoration students, practitioners, and researchers. Because it’s no fun to be all business, we have also planned an informal mixer immediately following the meeting at the Lucky Labrador/ Hawthorn Brew Pub, 915 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd from 8pm-12.
  • One of our tasks during the business meeting will be to select our officers for the coming year. We are accepting nominations for the following offices: chair, vice-chair, treasurer, secretary, outreach coordinator, website guru, student coordinator, social media coordinator, and programs coordinator. If you are interested in serving in any of these positions, or know someone who would be great, please submit the nominee’s name and a 1- to 2-sentence description of the nominee to our current co-chairs, Kris Hulvey (kris.hulvey@nullusu.edu) and Elise Gornish (egornish@nullplantsciences.ucdavis.edu). For a description of the positions follow this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vRHOxX8Q9WoRaKIAXiaVR1ohsmeiKKZ2Gcqo9ES3Jq4/pub
  • We were successful in our proposal for a restoration-themed symposium at this year’s meeting. The symposium is entitled “Ecological Restoration for Multiple Ecosystem Services and the People Who Value Them” and features presentations from a mix of practitioners and researchers (https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session12910.html). See you there on Friday, August 11 2017from 8:00 – 11:30, Room D135!
  • While at the meeting, please stop by our Ecological Restoration Section booth at the poster session. The booth will feature information about ecological restoration activities, both at ESA and in the future; a survey to gauge your interests in possible section activities; and a logo design contest. Every section needs a logo – help us get started by sketching out a design and you might win $150! We also need volunteers to staff the booth between 4:15 and 6:30 pm Monday through Thursday. If you’d like to take a half-hour slot at the booth, contact Mark Brunson (mark.brunson@nullusu.edu).
  • To our student members: If you’re presenting a poster on a restoration-themed topic at this year’s meeting, please consider entering our poster contest. Judges will award points based on content and design, and relevance to restoration. The winner will receive a $300 check, 2nd place will receive a $200 check and 3rd place will receive a $100 check after the meeting. To submit your poster for consideration, email Julea Shaw (jashaw@nullucdavis.edu) with your name, poster title and poster session number, or sign-up via this online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrAGQZHxmc9J_3PKX4Is2VSvMgiQyosPWjlut1sOQhPy2VFg/viewform

Hope to see you in Portland!

-Kris Hulvey, Elise Gornish, Mark Brunson, Jonathan Bauer, Virginia Matzek, Dustin Joughton & Julea Shaw (the current Ecological Restoration Section Officer Team)

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