Rachel Hughes has completed her Masters of Natural Resources in what seems like no time at all. In fact, she did it in less than 12 months! I’m not sure how she got so much high caliber work in to…
Rachel Hughes, Teaching Assistant of the Year Award!
Rachel did so many projects during her sprint through her Masters, everything from developing K-12 teaching modules for Watershed UGA, to spending real teaching time in K-12 classes around Athens, to volunteer efforts, and even some hot and humid fieldwork…
Lizzie receives Odum School Instructor of the Year award
At our annual Spring Fling event, I found out I was selected as the Odum School of Ecology Instructor of the Year. I’m very honored, especially considering the tremendous talent and dedication that my colleagues in the Odum School pour…
Liz Guinessey and Kristen Lear receive Tinker Foundation Research Awards
Congratulations to both Liz and Kristen for receiving a Field Research Award from the Tinker Foundation to support their summer research in Costa Rica and Mexico, respectively. We’re fortunate that the UGA Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) has received…
Warm welcome to Gabriele Volpato, postdoc
We are thrilled that Gabriele Volpato has joined the Pastoralist Transitions project in Kenya as a Center for Integrative Conservation Research Postdoctoral Scholar. With expertise in human ecology and ethnobotany, his doctoral research at Wageningen University focused on the Sahrawi…
Kristen Lear shines at Warnell Graduate Symposium
Congratulations to Kristen, for winning 1st place in her oral session on Research Proposals at the Warnell Graduate Student Symposium!
March 2015: Ryan Unks awarded Botany in Action Fellowship
Great news! Ryan just received a Botany In Action Fellowship, a fellows program sponsored by the Phipps Conservancy and Botanical Garden, Pittsburg, PA. Congratulations!! As a Fellow, Ryan will receive funding to support his research on sustainable landscapes and ethnobotany…
Feb 2015: Ivory Trade documentary screening
On February 9th, the UGA organization Speak Out for Species (SOS) Animal Voices Film Festival showed the National Geographic documentary, “Battle for the Elephants.” The documentary addressed both the supply and demand sides of the illegal trade in ivory from…
Feb 2015: Kristen Lear and Ryan Unks present at ICON symposium
On February 6th, The Integrative Conservation (ICON) Ph.D. program held its second Symposium on Integrative Conservation. Kristen talked about her planned work on bat conservation and their roles as pollinators in agave plantations. Ryan presented his research in Kenya that…
January 2015: Two articles in Ecology and Society
Through an NCEAS-sponsored working group, we have proposed a framework for evaluating tradeoffs in ecosystem services, which seeks to illustrate how trade-offs experienced by different stakeholder groups can vary depending on divergent values held by those groups. The framework is…