UGA alumni Carolyn Thomas, MS Ecology ’78, and Bob Pohlad, PhD Plant Pathology ’78, both professors at Ferrum College in Virginia, were jointly honored by the Ecological Society of America with the Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education at the ESA 2016 annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale.
“Carolyn was a MS student of Dr. Odum’s (grad. 1978) and his technician during that time and went on to get her PhD at Virginia Tech in Environmental Engineering (1985). I graduated in Plant Pathology studying Mycology and Ecology with E.S. Luttrell at UGA (PhD 1978) and both of us returned to the Institute of Ecology in 1988 to do sabbatical research. Carolyn worked with Judy Meyer on stream work and decomposition at Coweeta and I worked with Dave Coleman and Mike Beare on agroecosystems at Horseshoe Bend studying fungi in conventional and no-till systems. We have worked side-by-side teaching and doing research at Ferrum College since 1978,” said Pohlad in an email.
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