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 Annual Meeting in Montreal – Program Highlights, Book Travel Now

(May 18, 2022) – Sessions focus on transforming the science of ecology – “a change is gonna come”

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Invasive Species and Climate Change Impact Coastal Estuaries

New research from the University of California, Davis shows how biological invasions interact with a changing climate in unpredictable ways.

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Shuffling the Deck

New research from UC Santa Barbara scientists explores what happens when traits jump between branches of the tree of life.

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Decades later, ʻōhiʻa repopulation results encouraging

The ʻōhiʻa tree, which is endemic to Hawaiʻi, may be easier to repopulate than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Journals and Publications

Tidal cycles influence the availability of shallow-water habitat for foraging wading birds, such as the little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) pictured here on an intertidal mudflat in Florida, USA. To evaluate the transferability of a model quantifying shallow water, Martinez et al. applied the Tidal Inundation Model of Shallow-water Availability (TiMSA) under novel temporal and spatial conditions in the Florida Keys and Florida Bay. The authors found that TiMSA can assume uncertainty in spatial data to generate reliable estimates of shallow-water availability over space and time. Considerable spatiotemporal changes in shallow-water habitat for little blue herons were identified using TiMSA that were otherwise undetectable with water level data alone, suggesting that TiMSA may be a valuable tool for use in natural resource management of shallow-water habitat. Martinez et al.'s results are published in the April issue of Ecosphere.

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