Julissa Rojas-Sandoval (@uconn.bsky.social) is a 2026 EEE Scholar studying how climate change, land use, and invasive species reshape biodiversity across the Caribbean and the Americas

Lis Regula (Otterbein University) is a 2026 EEE Scholar whose work and advocacy bridge biological research, inclusive science education, and environmental justice

Ana Carolina Prado-Valladares (FIPERJ) is a 2026 EEE Scholar working on freshwater biodiversity, protected areas, and gender in small-scale fisheries

Diana Macias (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) is a 2026 EEE Scholar studying climate resilience in dryland forests who partners with Tribal Nations on woodland health and traditional foods research

Laura Yahdjian (University of Buenos Aires & IFEVA–CONICET) is an ESA Fellow, recognized for her research on grazing, drought, and grassland ecosystem function, and for building ecological research networks across the Americas

Nathan Swenson (@notredame.bsky.social) is an ESA Fellow, honored for integrating phylogenetics, traits, and genomics to understand tree community assembly across space and time

Sergio Navarrete (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) is an ESA Fellow, recognized for integrating species interactions and oceanography to understand marine community dynamics and conservation

Lianhong Gu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) is an ESA Fellow, honored for multidisciplinary work linking plant biology, ecosystem science, and environmental biophysics using AI and novel sensors

Donald Falk (@uarizona.bsky.social) is an ESA Fellow, recognized for pioneering research on fire history, fire ecology and ecological resilience, as well as for his professional leadership in the fields of plant conservation and ecological restoration

Vanessa Ezenwa (@yale.edu) is an ESA Fellow, honored for her work on host-parasite interactions, disease ecology, and the links between animal behavior and infectious disease

Deron Burkepile (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social) is an ESA Fellow, recognized for research on how consumers and climate shape ecosystem function and nutrient cycling, spanning coral reefs to savannas

Bethany Bradley (@umassamherst.bsky.social) is an ESA Fellow, honored for her research on invasive plant biogeography and for her dedication to actionable science, as illustrated by her co-founding of the NE RISCC Network to support climate-smart invasive species management

Yong Zhou (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, recognized for his research on carbon & nutrient dynamics in fire-prone ecosystems, shedding light on how ecosystem processes respond to global change

Casey Youngflesh (Clemson University) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, honored for combining ecological theory with data science to study migration and demography across animal taxa

Claire Willing (University of Washington) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, recognized for research on mycorrhizal fungi and plant responses to climate change

Lin Meng (@vanderbilt.edu) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, honored for her work on vegetation phenology, climate change, and implications for public health and sustainable cities

Joseph Hoyt (@virginiatech.bsky.social) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, recognized for his research on emerging infectious disease dynamics & conservation solutions for imperiled wildlife

Christina Hernández (Old Dominion University) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, recognized for her work on population dynamics and life history evolution, and for her commitment to empowering women in marine science

Tess Grainger (@uofguelph.bsky.social) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, honored for her research on coexistence and eco-evolutionary dynamics, and for her advocacy on mental health and parenting in academia

Corey Callaghan (University of Florida) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, honored for using citizen science data like iNaturalist & eBird to understand biodiversity change at global scales

Roxanne Beltran (@ucsantacruz.bsky.social) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, recognized for her work on elephant seal behavior, physiology, & survival in changing oceans

Lillian Aoki (@uoregon.bsky.social) is a 2026 ESA Early Career Fellow, honored for her research on seagrass recovery after marine heatwaves & carbon sequestration in tidal marshes

Stephen Pacala (@princeton.edu) receives the Eminent Ecologist Award for a career bridging ecological theory and climate policy, and the development of tools and frameworks like the SORTIE forest model & "stabilization wedges" for cutting greenhouse gas emissions

Brian Enquist (@uarizona.bsky.social) receives the Robert H. MacArthur Award for his work linking plant traits to ecosystem function, exemplified by his contributions to Trait-Driver Theory and Metabolic Scaling Theory

Erika Zavaleta (@ucsantacruz.bsky.social) is the inaugural recipient of the Bazzaz-Pickett Award for Excellence in Mentoring, having guided 150+ students & founded programs like Doris Duke Conservation Scholars & FieldFutures

Nathan Kiel (SUNY ESF) & colleagues share the W.S. Cooper Award for their paper tracking subalpine forest recovery 34 years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires, revealing diverse & uncertain post-fire trajectories: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Jill Anderson (@universityofga.bsky.social) & colleagues share the W.S. Cooper Award for their study showing gene flow & adaptation alone can't rescue montane plants like Drummond's rockcress under climate change: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Harman Jaggi (@princeton.edu) & colleagues receive the Sustainability Science Award for their study on the biocultural vulnerability of traditional Himalayan crops like black pea & barley: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Daniel Perret (@nature.org) & colleagues receive the George Mercer Award for their paper showing space-for-time substitutions can mislead predictions of tree growth responses to climate change: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Daniel Zuleta (University of Gothenburg) receives the Emerging Ecologist Award in honor of his work on tropical forest dynamics, tree mortality, and carbon cycling across the Amazon and around the world