Clinic combines law and science to protect land
Dec 2024
The Odum School partnered with the School of Law to create UGA’s Land Conservation Clinic, which takes a cross-disciplinary approach to land conservation.
Building a more sustainable world
Sep 2024
Ecology’s Krista Capps led a session on water stewardship for the Sustainable Development Excellence program developed by Boehringer Ingelheim in conjunction with UGA partners including the Odum School.
Managing the ebb & flow of the I-85 corridor
Jun 2024
Krista Capps and UGA scientists from across four schools and colleges have brought their research together to synthesize the water issues facing the I-85 “urban archipelago.”
Accessing the connections between infectious disease, climate change and biodiversity loss
Apr 2024
Regents’ Professor and CEID Director John Drake is co-author on a new report calling for a more unified approach to planetary health.
What it takes to create a successful oyster reef breakwater
Feb 2024
Jeb Byers, Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Ecology, recently coauthored a publicaiton on oyster reef breakwaters, a form of natural infrastructure.
Signature Lecture Series draws prominent speakers to campus
Feb 2024
The 38th Odum Lecture will be delivered by Kai Chan, Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, and is part of the University of Georgia’s spring 2024 Signature Lecture Series.
Nutrient pollution reduces nutrient retention services of streams, new research shows
Oct 2023
Few nutrients are as fundamental to or ubiquitous in modern life as nitrogen and phosphorus. As fertilizers, they form the bedrock of our global agricultural systems—but at a cost to our waterways.
UGA researchers work to save an iconic plant in the Lowcountry
Sep 2023
Researcher Elizabeth KIng, associate professor in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, is on a mission to monitor, restore and conserve the native sweetgrass populations along the Georgia coast.
‘People are also part of this ecosystem’: Rao studies impact of hydropower on human, ecological systems
Sep 2023
When small hydroelectric projects began dotting the rivers of the Western Ghats, a strip of mountains that runs parallel to the west coast of Peninsular India, Odum and Integrative Conservation (ICON) graduate student Shishir Rao pivoted from a career in IT to study their impact.
Thompson to lead new Land Conservation Clinic
Aug 2023
Steffney R. Thompson will lead the School of Law’s new Land Conservation Clinic (a refocused version of the Environmental Practicum). The clinic will be an interdisciplinary collaboration between the law school and Odum School of Ecology working at the nexus of law, science and policy to support and expand conservation efforts across Georgia and the Southeast.