Ecological Society of America Student Section

The Historical Records Committee (HRC) welcomes ideas from students on how to commemorate the past 100 years! If you have any memories of ESA annual meetings, posters/presentation awards, or stories (heart wrenching, funny, ordinary, any and all) related to ESA, we'd like to hear from you! Pictures with stories are ALWAYS welcome.

We have been called into action by the ESA Office! It is in catastrophic situations like the large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that the ecological scientific community must rapidly respond as a cohesive force. The Ecological Society of America and the ESA Student Section are organizing a Rapid Response Action to alleviate the adverse effects of the oil spill in the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama. These actions include sharing of datasets to evaluate biodiversity impacts and hands-on volunteering:

***Deadline extension to June 30, 2010***

Be an active voice in the present and future of the most powerful Section of the Ecological Society of America! Apply for any of the following officer positions: vice-chair, secretary, treasurer, Public affairs officer, Education & Human Resources Committee representative, Science Committee representative positions (descriptions below) for the 2010-2011 academic year.

The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) and the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at Ohio State University are sponsoring an Advanced Study Institute (ASI) and workshop in Conservation Biology to be held July 28 - August 13, 2010 at the Kenya Wildlife Services Training Institute in Naivasha, Kenya. During the 3-day workshop (August 11 – 13, 2010) interdisciplinary researchers will discuss their work with graduate students and assist the graduate students in developing research projects.