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Meet Your New Chair!

This month, we are introducing the Early Career Ecology Section’s new chair, Lilli Kaarakka! Dr. Lilli Kaarakka is an Assistant Professor in Forest Management at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. (She tries hard to adhere to deadlines but sometimes falls short – like for this post.)(And then the webmaster, Cait, fell even shorter. The late blog post was…

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ECE Events at ESA 2023!

Whether you want to show your appreciation for being awarded travel funds, love the resources in the monthly newsletter, have ideas for how the ECE Section can better serve you, or just want to meet others in this transitional phase of our careers, come hang out with the ECE Section at our events in Portland! We are sponsoring and/or highlighting…

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Networking and Establishing Successful Collaborations

by Anthony Snead “Network! Network! Network!” I can hear the phrase ringing in my ears, and it transports me back to when I was a fresh PhD student in my advisor’s office. As early career scientists, we have been told that networking is important, and I took that to heart. I jumped at every chance to meet new people, even…

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Preserving the Future: The Importance of Seed Vaults in Conserving Wild Plants

Sanghyun Kim1,2*, Minseon Kim3, Naharin Sultana Anni4, Keehwa Bae3 1Group of Research in Ecology-MRC Abitibi (GREMA), Forest Research Institute, University of Québec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Amos, QC J9T 2L8, Canada; sanghyun.kim@nulluqat.ca (S.K.); 2Center for Forest Research, University of Québec at Montréal, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada; 3Seed Vault Department, Baekdudaegan National Arboretum, Bongwha, Republic of Korea 4Department of Global Health, McMaster…

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Meet Your New ECE Chair!

This month’s blog post is an introduction to your new Chair for 2022-2023! Kathleen is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UW-Madison in the SILVIS Lab.   Introduction – tell us about yourself! I want to start by mentioning how grateful I am to be the new chair! I answered these questions just a couple weeks after the annual meeting in…

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Meet an Early Career Ecologist: Christine Sit!

by Christine Sit Hi! I’m Christine, I am a post-baccalaureate intern at Archbold Biological Station. I am able to be here because of a generous grant from the Vaughn-Jordan Foundation, who support research internships at Archbold’s Plant Ecology Program. I began my internship four months ago and am now in the middle of my project! My project focuses on plant…

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Blue Carbon and Seagrass Mapping

by Krti Tallam Citation: Maria Laura Zoffoli, Pierre Gernez, Philippe Rosa, Anthony Le Bris, Vittorio E. Brando, Anne-Laure Barillé, Nicolas Harin, Steef Peters, Kathrin Poser, Lazaros Spaias, Gloria Peralta, Laurent Barillé. Sentinel-2 remote sensing of Zostera noltei-dominated intertidal seagrass meadows. Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 251, 2020, 112020, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112020. Blue carbon. When I think about it, I think…

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Advice for Giving a Dual-Language Presentation

by Bryan Juarez I graduated with a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Iowa State University during May 2021. While preparing my presentation I noticed I could not find any easily accessible resources which gave advice on presenting in two languages. For this reason, I was invited to write about my experience. The goal of this piece is to…

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A woman scuba diving in sea grass and bare ocean floor.

The Long Way Around: the struggles of reentering ecology research

by Hayley Henderson By the time I was about to graduate high school, I was too busy trying to live until tomorrow to think of a future for myself. Many of my classmates had careers already in mind – intelligence security, computer engineering, veterinarian science. They’d talk about them openly, about summer internships, the best schools to apply to, the…

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Meet an Early Career Ecologist: Molly Reichenborn

This month’s blog post is an interview with Molly Reichenborn, who serves on the ECE Board as the Secretary-Treasurer. Tell us about yourself! Currently I’m a second-year doctoral student at New Mexico State University in the Animal and Range Sciences Department. I’m from Kansas originally and received my undergraduate and master’s degrees from Wichita State University near where I was…

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Navigating Academia (and Beyond) with ADHD

Navigating Academia (and Beyond) with ADHD by Cait Rottler This post is partially guided by a Slack Chat that took place Monday, 1/24/22 in the ECE Slack Chat space. If you would like to go back and read that and aren’t a member of our Slack channel yet, you can join here. I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until about a…

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