Our reclaim the name campaign was a huge success. Thanks in huge part to all of you Naturalists. We launched this campaign with the hopes of creating community and having some fun. But, we had no idea how much fun it would be and how much community we had. A week after the launch we had, at last count, 59…
Read MoreBlog post from the ESA BLOG Are you a naturalist? Join the grassroots effort to reclaim the name. ESA’s Natural History section is calling on you to assert your naturalist identity with pride by tweeting a photo to #IAmANaturalist on Monday, September 8, 2014. I am a Naturalist — I use careful observations of the natural world to inform my daily…
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the recipient of our Natural History Student Award is Jeremy Feinberg, a doctoral candidate of Rutgers University. His poster “A tale of two species: recent discovery of a cryptic leopard frog species from the New York City region”, presented emergent natural history findings from careful field observations. A keen ear for frog calls alerted Jeremy…
Read MoreIImportant information about this year’s meeting: we are on Twitter – @esanathist, use hashtags #nathist and #esa2014, visit the Natural History Section booth & mixer; support our student awards applicants by attending their presentations! **Also, check out Noam Ross’s blog on “natural history” in ESA abstracts. Super cool to think about how this has changed over the pas 100 years….
Election Results Chairs – we have two! John Pastor – website Brad Taylor – website Vice Chair Christian DiVittorio – website Secretary Kirsten Hill – website As the former chair, I will stay on the governing board for two years to help with the transition. And Nash Turley has agreed to stay on as over achieving member and now postdoc-at-large. Brad and…
Exciting new paper on the importance and decline of natural history! This paper was inspired by conversations started during the The Natural History Initiative workshops (funded by NSF and UW College on the Environment) focused on the importance of Natural History in Society, Education, Research and Management. Full article published online – Bioscience .http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/03/23/biosci.biu032.full In a new window Download…
Its time to start gearing up for the 99th ANNUAL ESA meetings in Sacramento California. Abstracts are due Thursday Feb. 27th. Submit your abstract here. If you are a student, or if you have a student that has a presentation that employs and showcases natural history knowledge to further their ecological studies, please let us know! We would like…
The 2013 ESA meeting was another year of growth for the ESA Natural History section. This was our THIRD year as a section and it gets more fun and exciting as we go along. I was delighted to meet folks and hear about student’s studies, passions and commitment to Natural History. Last year I reported that our membership double, totaling…
We have a few updates on natural history activities and opportunities to help the section. In effort to keep the membership growth trajectory (doubling every year so far), we will continue to have our NATURAL HISTORY booth. This will be the hotspot for signing up new members, and we will again have a natural history book auction. To help make…
Post from Rafe Sagarin – an ESA Natural History Section member I wanted to encourage you to adopt our book, “Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World” (2012 Island Press) for your next class in biology, ecology or environmental studies. This compact and affordable volume ($30 or less from Amazon and other retailers in…