Using their background as invasion biologists, doctoral candidates Rachel Smith and Linsey Haram are working to on a project at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia to improve restoration in the floodplain of the Middle Oconee River .
Butterflies will use gardens planted to attract them, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. But the researchers cautioned that butterfly gardens can sometimes have a downside
“Plastic: Land to Sea Connections,” a workshop on the problem of plastic waste in our oceans and what we can do about it, will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology auditorium.
Governments and donors have spent billions of dollars since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit attempting to slow the pace of species extinctions around the world. Now, a new paper in Nature provides the first clear evidence that those efforts are working.
Institutions from across the University of Georgia campus have partnered to engage the public and raise awareness about declining coral health around the world with a free screening of the award-winning documentary ?Chasing Coral? on Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. at the Tate Student Center Theatre.
There are lots of great stories featuring Odum School faculty and students in the Spring 2017 issue of UGA Research magazine!
When the documentary Chasing Coral premieres at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 21, University of Georgia ecologist James W. Porter will be there, not as an audience member, but as part of the film’s cast and crew.
Ecology major Katherine Russll has received a Brittney Fox Watts Memorial Endowment scholarship to study in Freiburg, Germany, as part of the Office of Sustainability?s Study Abroad in Sustainability program.
Ania Majewska has created a video explaining why the species of milkweed you plant matters to monarch butterflies.
Watershed UGA, an interdisciplinary initiative to create a culture of sustainability focused on campus waterways, has awarded prizes of $1,000 each to two teams of University of Georgia students for their winning entries in the Daylighting the Watershed design competition.