ESA Executive Director Catherine O’Riordan on the Hill Oct. 6, 2025 with American Geophysical Union President Brandon Jones.

There is an increasing nationwide demand for certification credentials in the environmental arena. Besides natural resource management, ecological expertise is needed on a host of other current ...

Employers in all sectors value a credential that speaks to your skills as a professional. Certification through ESA is a way for ecologists at all levels of education and training to add a credential ...

Dr. Mark Vellend is a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and a 2020 ESA Fellow. Since the start of his career, Dr. Vellend has been interested in long-term changes in the composition ...

The Eugene P. Odum Award celebrates sustained, outstanding work in ecology education. This award was generously endowed by, and named for, the distinguished ecologist Eugene P. Odum. Through teaching, ...

Join us for a hands-on GIS workshop, a collaborative effort between the Ecological Society of America (ESA) SEEDS program, the NSF-funded Landscape Exchange Netw ork for Socio-environmental Systems ...

The Ton Damman Award is given to a graduate student or very recent post-graduate scientist for the best oral presentation in vegetation ecology at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Students in the 2024 cohort are engaged in advocacy with ...

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to ecology in new discoveries, teaching, sustainability, diversity ...

Bees are not the only animals that carry pollen from flower to flower. Species with backbones, among them bats, birds, mice, and even lizards, also serve as pollinators. Although less familiar as ...

The first direct evidence of orcas killing white sharks in South Africa has been captured by both a helicopter and drone pilot, and a new open-access paper published today in The Ecological Society of ...