Soft Skills Training for the Future of Forests in Liberia
Soft Skills Training for the Future of Forests in Liberia

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
Bees, Beekeeping, and Livelihood Transitions

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
Monitoring Sweetgrass Restoration on Jekyll Island

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)…

Culturally and ecologically important plants on the Georgia Coast
Culturally and ecologically important plants 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…

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…