Our place at the table: The social roots of sustainability
Oct 2025
Adjunct faculty Tyra Byers is featured in this story on social sustainability.
Rainbow parrotfish may be behind coral bleaching in part of the Florida Keys
Jul 2025
New research by Bill Fitt reveals that more than 1 in 3 corals in Buttonwood Sound frequented by parrotfish were bleached.
Endangered minnow rallies conservationists in race to save laurel dace
Jul 2025
Odum School graduate students Christian Swartzbaugh and Mackenzi Hallmark are working with the Tennessee Aquarium and local residents to save an endangered minnow that only lives in a few streams in southeastern Tennessee.
Grad student conducts research to understand—and protect—the Tapir Valley tree frog
May 2025
Valeria Aspinall saw the first female Tapir Valley tree frog in 2020. The tiny, critically endangered frog exists only in a 20-acre wetland in Costa Rica.
Study reveals even common plants are threatened by climate change
May 2025
New research from Jill Anderson is published in Science.
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 publication on oyster reef breakwaters, a form of natural infrastructure.