Announcing Organizational Member WEST, Inc.
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) welcomes Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) as an organizational member of the Society.
“We launched our organizational membership to build better bridges with employers in the private and public sectors,” said ESA President Peter Groffman. “WEST’s staff and leadership have long been prominent in ESA, and the Society is glad to be able to deepen the relationship as we work together to support the science of ecology.”
“Many individual WEST Staff, from one of our Founders, Dr. Dale Strickland, to current junior and senior level staff, have grown through their engagement with ESA”, said WEST CEO, Clayton Derby. “WEST is proud to expand this relationship beyond the individual to the corporate level and to be the first organizational member of the Society.”
ESA’s organizational memberships include memberships and certification applications for members of their staff; exhibits and recognition at our in-person events; promotional emails to the Society’s mailing list; direct interactions with ESA’s leadership; and recruitment benefits, among opportunities unique to organizational members.
WEST was founded in 1990 with the vision of combining ecology and statistics to solve natural resource challenges. What began as a small consultancy has grown into one of the most respected environmental and statistical consulting firms in North America, and many of the folks on the WEST team have been important members and leaders in ESA.
We sought out WEST as a member thanks to the long history of involvement between WEST’s founders and leadership—especially Dale Strickland—in the Society’s work. While the company emerged as a leader in environmental consulting, staff were also helping to guide ESA’s certification program and strategy for engaging with private sector scientists under the Extending the Tent initiative.
Thank you to WEST Co-Founder Dale Strickland and CEO Clayton Derby for bringing us together—we look forward to working with them and the many professional ecologists at WEST to support the science of ecology!
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