2022 ESA Election Candidates

Beginning in September and running through October, ESA members will be able to vote in the annual election for offices on the Governing Board and Board of Professional Certification. All members are strongly encouraged to vote — the members elected to these positions are responsible for the strategic direction of ESA.

President-Elect

Stephanie Hampton, Deputy Director, Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science
Diane McKnight, Professor, University of Colorado

Vice President for Finance

Steven Allison, Professor, University of California, Irvine
Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Professor, University of Minnesota

Member of the Governing Board

(select one)

Charles Nilon, Professor, University of Missouri
James Rattling Leaf, Research Associate, University of Colorado-Boulder
Adriana L. Romero-Olivares, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University

Member of the Board of Professional Certification

(select two)

Joseph A. Bruseo, Professor, Holyoke Community College
Laura Lawlor, Principal, Natural Resources Lead (Ontario), Senior Ecologist, GHD Limited
Drew Rayburn, Director of Conservation Science and Planning, The Nature Conservancy in Colorado
Kat Superfisky, Urban Ecologist, City of Los Angeles

News

Canned salmon dating back to 1970s shows that marine mammals face increasing risks of intestinal parasitism

(August 3, 2022) – Cans of salmon processed between 1979 and 2019 reveal that whales and dolphins have become increasingly likely to consume prey containing parasitic worms that can cause acute gastritis in marine mammals.

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Pathogenic microbes in drying soils could present public health threat

(July 28, 2022) – Research on soil fungal communities in the southwestern United States suggests that spore-producing fungi in increasingly dry soils could represent a future threat to public health.

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Senator Rosa Galvez Selected as the 2022 ESA Regional Policy Award Winner

(July 21, 2022) – ESA will present its 15th annual Regional Policy Award to the Honorable Rosa Galvez, an independent Senator for Quebec, on Sunday, Aug 14, 5:00pm EDT, during the ESA Annual Meeting Opening Plenary.

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High-flying hover flies: entomologists report for the first time that some North American hover flies migrate

(July 19, 2022) – Scientists have documented long-distance migration for the first time in several species of North American hover flies, some of the continent’s most important pollinators.

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Journals and Publications

Using a meta-analysis, Stephens et al. demonstrate that trophic discrimination factors (TDFs)—offsets between the isotopic composition of diet and animal tissues—are strongly influenced by consumer type and diet source, particularly for carbon (TDF-δ13C). Using field-collected data from a variety of small mammal species (including the pictured deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus) the authors also show that using incorrect TDFs result in inaccurate estimates of diet. Their study is published in the August issue of Ecological Monographs.

Ecological Monographs