Dr. Eric MacDonald of the College of Environment & Design at UGA is shepherding this student-run initiative that uses prescribed grazing to control invasive species, reclaim forgotten natural areas on campus, and foster environmental stewardship in students. The goats, or the…
Keeping with our theme of extreme lab diversity — students’ research topics include African pastoralist social-ecological systems, coastal biogeochemistry, and bat pollination ecology in Mexico — we’re please do welcome Hannah, who is an archaeologist with particular interest in paleoethnobotany!…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Congratulations to Kristen, for winning 1st place in her oral session on Research Proposals at the Warnell Graduate Student Symposium!
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…
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…