Abstract
Collaborations and Moving Past COVID‐19: The Human Ecology and Applied Ecology Sections
Highlights
Contributions the human dimension of ecological change, including justice and fairness issues
Ecological Society of America (ESA) members joined the Applied Ecology, Human Ecology, and Environmental Justice sections, and SEEDS students on a BioBlitz that included participation from the Carnegie Museum and other local institutions. The success of this joint effort led to three more BioBlitzes, each centered in a lowerincome neighborhood within the host city of the ESA annual meeting, including Sacramento, California, Austin, Texas, and Baltimore, Maryland (Fig. 2)
Invertebrate and plant specimens collected during the Pittsburgh and Austin BioBlitzes were donated back to the community or partnering organization to provide an accessible record for community members of the species found
Summary
Human Ecology was first constituted within ESA in 1950 as the Committee for Human Ecology. By the end of the 1950s, Human Ecology was on the brink of being awarded section status, which would have made it one of ESA’s first sections, not as old as Applied Ecology. It is unclear why this formalization never went ahead at the time (for an historical account, see Dyball 2017). Work of a human ecological nature continued within ESA, it was another 50 years until a Human Ecology section was inaugurated at ESA’s 93rd annual conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2008. The founding bylaws read: “The objectives of the Section shall be to encourage cross-disciplinary research and publication in areas relating to the interface of humans and the environment and to explicitly encourage linkages between practicing scientists and researchers in the social sciences, arts and humanities” (draft bylaws for the Human Ecology section, passed in 2007)
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