Ecological Society of America announces 2015 fellows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, 7 May 2015
Contact: Liza Lester, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, gro.asenull@retseLL

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2015 fellows. The Society’s fellows program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and to management and policy.

ESA fellows and early career fellows are listed on the ESA Fellows page.

Fellows are members who have made outstanding contributions to a wide range of fields served by ESA, including, but not restricted to those that advance or apply ecological knowledge in academics, government, non-profit organizations and the broader society. They are elected for life.

Early career fellows are members who have advanced ecological knowledge and applications within 8 years of completing their doctoral training (or other terminal degree), and show promise of continuing to make outstanding contributions to a wide range of fields served by ESA. They are elected for five years.

ESA established its fellows program in 2012.

Awards Committee Chair Alan Hastings says that the program’s goals are to honor its members and to support their competitiveness and advancement to leadership positions in the Society, at their institutions, and in broader society.

Fellows elected in 2015:

• Jayne Belnap, Research Ecologist, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
• John Blair, University Distinguished Professor and Edwin G. Brychta Professor of Biology, Division of Biology, Kansas State University
• David D. Breshears, Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
• Grace Brush, Professor, Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• Peter Chesson, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona; Visiting Professor, Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
• Kathy Cottingham, Professor, Biological Sciences, Dartmouth
• Evan DeLucia, G. Arends Professor of Integrative Biology, Department of Plant Biology, Baum Family Director, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
• Valerie Eviner, Associate Professor, Plant Sciences, University of California Davis
• Mary Firestone, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley
• Janet Franklin, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University
• Peter Groffman, Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• Drew Harvell, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
• Sarah Hobbie, Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
• David Inouye, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, University of Maryland
• Pat Megonigal, Senior Scientist & Deputy Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian Institution
• Gary Mittelbach, Professor, Kellogg Biological Station and Dept. of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University
• Craig Osenberg, Professor, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
• Mercedes Pascual, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
• Ivette Perfecto, George W. Pack Professor of Ecology, Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
• Steward Pickett, Distinguished Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• Jim Reynolds, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy, The Nicholas School, Duke University
• Os Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
• Sharon Strauss, Professor and Chair, Department Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis
• Kathleen Weathers, Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Early Career Fellows elected in 2015:

• Karen Abbott, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University
• Brian Allan, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Liza Comita, Assistant Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
• Rob Pringle, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
• Corinna Riginos, Adjunct Professor, Haub School of the Environment, University of Wyoming
• Rob Salguero-Gómez, Australian Research Council Fellow, University of Queensland; Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
• Daniel Stouffer, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Integrative Ecology and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury
• Ariana Sutton-Grier, Assistant Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites in the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland; Ecosystem Science Adviser, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Hillary Young, Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara

The Ecological Society of America (ESA), founded in 1915, is the world’s largest community of professional ecologists and a trusted source of ecological knowledge, committed to advancing the understanding of life on Earth. The 10,000 member Society publishes six journals and a membership bulletin and broadly shares ecological information through policy, media outreach, and education initiatives. The Society’s Annual Meeting attracts 4,000 attendees and features the most recent advances in ecological science. Visit the ESA website at https://ecologicalsocietyofamerica.org.