Dear Early Career Ecologist (ECE) Section members, The following opportunities are only available to ESA ECE members. You can join the ECE section following these instructions: http://esa.org/earlycareer/join-us/
- Outstanding publication award of ECE & Ecology Letters submission deadline extended to June 7th 2017. More details here: http://esa.org/earlycareer/awards/outstanding-publication-award/ - Do you want to be more active within the ECE Section? We are now accepting nominations to secretary/treasurer and vice-chair. More details here: https://goo.gl/forms/gcQfe7gjTaFEVm2f1 - We are proposing an amendment to our current bylaws (http://esa.org/earlycareer/about/bylaws/), to be voted at the Early Career Ecologist business meeting, to take place at the 2017 ESA annual meeting in Portland, OR. Briefly, the amendment, if approved, would allow future elections of officers (starting 2018) to be conducted over an internet poll. More details on the amendment can be found at the bottom of this email. No further action is required from the membership at this moment, but we encourage you to attend our business meeting in Portland to vote on this amendment. ESA Early Career Ecologist Section governing board PROPOSAL FOR AMENDMENT OF ECE BYLAWS: The Coordinating Committee of the Early Career Ecologist Section of the Ecological Society of America, comprising of the Officers of the Section, is proposing the following amendment to Article 5 of the Bylaws, pertaining to the election of Officers. Currently Article 5 stipulates “Election of Officers shall be by majority vote of those members present at the Section’s annual business meeting. Each Officer will serve a term of one year.” Motivation for the Proposed Amendment Over the past four years of its existence, officers have been elected following Article 5. However, the current Coordinating Committee believes that attendance at the Section's annual business meetings, being low in number (< 20 members), has not adequately represented the membership, and that holding elections by electronic ballot could lead to more participation in the election process. We therefore propose the following Amendment to Article 5, represented by the underlined text. ARTICLE 5. OFFICERS. The Officers of the Section shall be a Chair, Vice-Chair, Past-Chair, and Secretary. The Officers comprise the Coordinating Committee and may act on behalf of the Section membership during intervals between annual meetings. BEGIN REMOVE Election of Officers shall be by majority vote of those members present at the Section’s annual business meeting. END REMOVE Each Officer will serve a term of one year. 5.1. CHAIR. The Chair shall preside at the business meetings of the Section, authorize expenditures of Section funds, create and/or approve Section initiatives, and work with the other Officers to promote the interests of the Section. The Chair shall create auxiliary positions and committees as necessary for specific tasks at the discretion of the Chair. The Chair will represent the Section on the Council of the Society as per Article 6 of the Society Constitution. 5.2. VICE-CHAIR. The Vice-Chair shall assist the Chair in promoting the interests of the Section as requested by the Chair. The Vice-Chair shall assume the duties of the Chair whenever the Chair is unable to act. At the completion of the Vice-Chair’s term, the Vice-Chair may assume the office of Chair if they so choose. 5.3. PAST-CHAIR. Upon completion of the term as Chair, this person shall serve as Past- Chair. Duties will be limited to an advisory role as needed to support the actions of the Chair and the interests of the Section. 5.4. SECRETARY. The Secretary shall keep the records, accounts, and files of the Section, keep the minutes of the annual meeting, maintain up-to-date membership and email contact lists, dispatch communications between the Coordinating Committee and the Section membership as requested by the Officers and approved by the Chair, and perform other duties at the discretion of the Chair to promote the interests of the Section. 5.5. ELECTIONS. Election of officers will be by majority vote of those members who cast an electronic ballot. Officer nominations will be solicited at least 3 months prior to the Section’s annual business meeting. Self-nominations are allowed. An electronic ballot will be sent to the membership via the membership email contact list at least 2 months prior to the Section’s annual business meeting. Voting will close 2 weeks prior to this meeting and the candidates will be notified. A public announcement will be made at the start of the Section’s business meeting. New book on the Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life http://tinyurl.com/SenescenceBook "Aliud iter ad prosperitatem nos est: id est omnibus rebus vincere" .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez Oxford - NERC Independent Research Fellow University of Queensland - Honorary Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research - Guest Researcher University of Sheffield - Visiting Researcher http://sites.google.com/site/RobResearchSite/
