Public Affairs Staff

Public Affairs staff manages the Society’s public policy and media initiatives. Working closely with its elected leadership, we facilitate opportunities for members to engage beyond the scientific community through media contacts, press releases, social media, briefings, and one-on-one meetings with policymakers. We provide media and policy training to our members, in addition to bimonthly updates on national policy developments relevant to this ecological community.


Alison Mize Director of Public Affairs gro.asenull@nosila 202.833.8773, ext. 205	Heidi Swanson Public Information Manager gro.asenull@idieh 202.833.8773 ext. 211	Nicole Zimmerman Public Affairs Manager gro.asenull@elocin 202.833.8773 ext. 224

Public Affairs Committee

Frank Davis, Vice President for Public Affairs (2015-2017) Phone: (805) 893-3438 ude.bscu.nerbnull@dwf

Bruce Byers, Bruce Byers Consulting (2017-2020)

Laura Petes, NOAA Office for Coastal Management (2018-2020)

Tim Male, Environmental Policy Innovation Center (2017-2020)

Ann Bartuska, Resources for the Future (2019-2022)

Astrid Caldas, Union of Concerned Scientists (2017-2020)

Kabryn Mattison, Student Representative (2019-2020)

News

ESA Selects EEE Scholars

(October 28, 2021) – The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the first cohort of the ESA Excellence in Ecology (EEE) Scholars: Dr. Na’Taki Osborne Jelks, Dr. Theresa Wei Ying Ong, Dr. Adriana Lucia Romero-Olivares, and Dr. Erika S. Zavaleta.

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Sustaining polar bear populations in the face of climate warming

New research provides information on an appropriate level of polar bear harvest that meets cultural needs, while accounting for both climate warming and the health of the Chukchi Sea polar bear population.

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Gardening for Wildlife Enhances Bird Diversity Beyond Your Own Back Yard

New research finds that landscaping and yard management decisions can increase wild bird habitat and influence bird biodiversity at the neighborhood and city scale.

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October research news from the Ecological Society of America: Recent findings from Frontiers & Ecosphere

(October 27, 2021) – The latest research from ESA’s journals: Tallying tropical vertebrates – Animal personalities – Deep-sea ecosystems – And more

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Journals and Publications

Adult Canada jays (Perisoreus canadensis), such as the one pictured here from Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, are a food-caching songbird of boreal and subalpine ecosystems. In a study using 55 years of breeding and resighting data, published in the September issue of Ecosphere, Fuirst et al. used mixed-effect models to determine the short- and long-term fitness consequences of breeding dispersal. The authors found that Canada jays improve their brood size and probability of nest success after dispersing, but that these benefits are reduced when individuals disperse in fall/winter, when there is less time to cache food. Importantly, jays also improved their lifetime reproductive success due to breeding dispersal.

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