UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant published an article featuring our group’s work on Ecologically and Culturally Important Plants of the Georgia Coast. CLICK HERE TO READ IT. By clicking on the lead photo on that site, you will…
Soft Skills Training for the Future of Forests in Liberia
Liberia has the most forest cover of any West African country, and these forests have sustained indigenous societies for millennia. Today, Liberia’s forested landscapes face a future that holds both great promise and peril. The sustainability challenges arise at the…
Bees, Beekeeping, and Livelihood Transitions
Multi-species ethnography is a valuable qualitative methodology for revealing the mutual, iterative influences of animals, plants and people on one another, as each responds to environmental change. Through these entanglements, we can track how trajectories of adaptation unfold. This study…
Monitoring Sweetgrass Restoration on Jekyll Island
With support from a USDA-NIFA Developing Pathways internship, Carlie Blackburn — a recent graduate from the College of Coastal Georgia — spent the summer of 2023 on Jekyll Island, conducting an innovative monitoring study of a large sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea)…
Paid Summer 2023 Internship Available!
Paid Summer Internship: Culturally Important Plants on the Georgia Coast We are seeking an undergraduate student or recent graduate to assist with the development and digital publication of an Identification Guide for Culturally Important Plant Species on the Georgia Coast.…
Culturally and ecologically important plants on the Georgia Coast
BIO-CULTURAL CONSERVATION ON THE COAST! We are starting a new project, funded by NOAA and Georgia Sea Grant, investigating sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea) and other plant species of cultural and ecological importance to Gullah Geechee people and Georgia’s maritime ecosystems. The…
Krishna’s Smithsonian Magazine’s Photo of the Day
Congrats to Krishna Sharma, whose photography has been making a splash in many circles this year. Today, his photo was selected by the Smithsonian Magazine’s 17th Annual Photo Contest to be the Photo of the Day! Check it out at…
Congratulations, Dr. Lear!
Kristen Lear successfully completed and defended her dissertation this summer, with her dream job already lined up — as the Endangered Species Interventions Specialist for the Agave Restoration Initiative at Bat Conservation International. Congratulations and Bon Voyage! Even though Kristen…
Dessa Dunn awarded the 2020 Golley Memorial Scholarhsip
This award honors the late Frank Golley, director of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory from 1962‐1967 and director of the Institute of Ecology from 1968‐1979. An internationally acclaimed leader in the field of landscape ecology, with important career contributions in…
Interdisciplinary Graduate Training for Addressing Wicked Problems
Thank you for your interest in this topic! At UGA, the ICON PhD Program endeavors to train the next generation of sustainability and conservation scientists and practitioners with the competencies needed to work effectively on teams that address wicked problems.…