Just had to share this little gem I ran across… From Gigerenzer, G. (2004). “Fast and frugal heuristics: The tools of bounded rationality.” Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making: 62-88. A decision theorist … was struggling whether to…
Just published: 2 excellent articles from Ryan’s dissertation!
These two papers are stellar examples of Ryan’s discipline-linking dissertation research. Congratulations, Ryan! Unks, R., E. G. King, L. A. German, N. P. Wachira and D. R. Nelson 2019. Unevenness in scale mismatches: institutional change, pastoralist livelihoods, and herding ecology…
Lizzie presents USSEE Webinar on Ecosystem Services and Livelihood Adaptation
The webinar was held on December 3, 2018 with a live audience at UGA and a virtual audience of attendees from USSEE (U.S. Society for Ecological Economics), ESA (Ecological Society of America), and AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists).…
Just published: Ecological Restoration, Cultural Landscape Conservation, and Novel Ecosystems
This article, just published online in Landscape and Urban Planning, analyzes how two fields of scholarship and practice — ecological restoration and cultural landscape conservation — have faced similar challenging issues as they seek to manage complex intersections of human…
Congratulations Destiny!
Destiny Loyd successfully presented and defended her Masters of Science thesis in the Odum School’s Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development program, and has now graduated! Her research on Goats in Urban Settings included three fascinating studies, exploring children’s, parents’ and…
Our coastal research team hosted Maritime Live Oak Forest Workshop
As part of our research on the status and future of Barrier Island Maritime Live Oak forests on the Georgia coast, on March 12, 2018 we convened a day-long workshop with managers from five barrier islands, coastal ecosystem managers and…
Spring Break on the Georgia Coast
This Spring Break, Lizzie and Dessa spent three days on Jekyll Island conducting soil mapping surveys with Lizzie’s long-time collaborator, Trenton Franz from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. With the energetic help of Rose Parham (Ecology major) and Weston…
Kristen and Hannah Present at ICON Symposium
At the 2018 Symposium on Integrative Conservation, ICON’s annual symposium, two of our lab members gave talks about their research.The symposiumm was held January 26th in Athens and gave students a chance to talk about their research to the general…
Campus Sustainability Grant awarded to Kristen
Kristen received a Campus Sustainability Grant from the University of Georgia, to build and install bat houses on campus as well as lead educational activities. This project will provide important roosting habitat for local Athens bat species and connect people…
Ryan Unks Completes His PhD
Ryan had his PhD defense in November 2017, turned in his dissertation a few weeks later, took barely a week or so of much needed rest in Oregon, then headed to France to begin his Postdoc at the University of…