The ESA Inclusive Ecology section (http://www.esa.org/inclusive-ecology/) is sponsoring a Special Session (#12) on Monday evening at the upcoming conference in Portland (OR), which will focus on causes and strategies for alleviating impacts of environmental change on minority communities. As a new section (founded in 2016), we are striving to accomplish a lot with limited resources. The organizing members of Inclusive Ecology would be grateful for your support in several ways: (1) by attending our session, (2) offering donations to defray travel costs for our invited speakers from Women of Color Speak Out, and (3) by helping us to locate a ride for our invited speakers from Portland to Seattle (WA) on Monday evening (8/7/17) or Tuesday (8/8/17). More information about this session is available at https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13172.html, and donations may be submitted here: https://www.gofundme.com/connect-scientists-with-communities/. Please respond if you are interested in carpooling with our guests; compensation is negotiable, plus this is an excellent networking opportunity for anyone doing outreach or socio-environmental synthesis research.
Regards, -- Kennedy "Ned" F. Rubert-Nason, Ph.D. Assistant Scientist - University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Instructor - Madison College Chair - Inclusive Ecology section-Ecological Society of America 839 Russell Laboratories 1630 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 office: 608-262-4319 cell: 608-234-1321
