Ecovoice 2024

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Welcome to EcoVoice 2024, the Odum School of Ecology magazine.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Features

• • Cover: Carleisha Hanns brings public education to freshwater conservation, GIS mapping

• • Scott Carver augments UGA’s network in disease ecology

• • Students explore infectious disease research through Ecology REU program

• • Collaboration and coronaviruses: Tamika Lunn brings interdisciplinary approach to disease ecology

Research and News Briefs

• • Tracking down a honey bee killer

• • Sonia Altizer named ESA Fellow

• • Researchers to develop tool to predict measles outbreaks

• • People are altering decomposition rates in waterways

• • Gene Rhodes elected AAAS Fellow

• • A genetic clock can predict lifespan in mammals

• • Extreme heat hurts monarchs and their parasites

• • Joro spiders well poised to populate cities

• • Land use, nutrient conditions contribute to oak decline

• • Odum faculty Jeb Byers, Craig Osenberg and Amy Rosemond named Athletic Association, Foundation professors

• • Creating a successful oyster reef breakwater

Students

• • Remembering Birkley

• • Odum School creates Student Ambassador program

• • Ecology undergrads have a large impact in sustainability

Outreach

• • Green Team connects UGA and middle school students with passion for ecology

Faculty profile

• • Ecology lecturer Allison Injaian identifies solutions

Staff profile

• • Academic advisor Misha Boyd helps students find community and strive for sustainability

Alumni

• • Working at the intersection of policy and research with Brian Watts, BS ’11

• • Pursuing momentum with Virginia Schutte, PhD ’14

• • Ecology establishes new Alumni Board of Members

• • Peter Groffman named ESA president-elect

• • Katharine Bleau named to 40 Under 40

Development

• • Wayne Harden gift will support graduate students

• • The Mack and Tamara Branch family commits to environmental stewardship

• • Honor Roll of Donors

Welcome to EcoVoice 2022, the Odum School of Ecology’s annual magazine.

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Transitions

• • Odum Students Changing the Landscape

• • Opening the Door to Discovery: Exploring Undergraduate Ecology Research Opportunities

• • Postcards from Costa Rica

• • On the Road—and the River— with the Ecological Problem Solving Class

Research

• • Disease Ecology Research Briefs

• • Dogs, Frogs, and Copepods: Model Provides Clues About Guinea Worm Transmission

• • Precision Conservation Saves Time, Money—and Species

• • UGA Partnerships Yield Tangible Results in Fighting Floodplain Invasive Species

• • Nutrients a Larger Factor than Temperature in Colorado Mountain Stream Ecosystems

• • Climate Change Could Increase Costs of Reproduction in Plants, Study Finds

• • Joro Spiders Likely to Spread Beyond Georgia

Outreach

• EcoReach Grows with Help of Americorps VISTA

Inside the School

• • Discovery at the River’s Bend

• • Faculty Profile: John Schacke

• • Awards and Honors

• • Parents & Families Day

• • Covich Honored at Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting

• • Emeritus Update

• • Bookshelf

• • Alumni News

• • In Memoriam: Gary W. Barrett

• • Honor Roll of Donors

IN THIS ISSUE:

Transitions

• Q&A with Interim Dean Sonia Altizer
• John L. Gittleman Moves to Faculty Role After 14 Years as Dean

Features

• The Coronavirus Working Group: Tracking the Pandemic and Informing the Fight
• Drawdown Georgia: Local Action to Fight Global Climate Change
• The First Earth Day at UGA: Toward Balance

Research

• Long-term Data Reveal Impact of Barriers and Drought on Migratory Shrimp in Puerto Rico
• “Emerge,” New Program to Create Environment of Inclusion in Freshwater Science, Receives NSF Funding
• Comprehensive Study Reveals an Unexpected Role of Fire in Longleaf Pine Forests
• Evolution of the Fastest Jaws in Nature: Function Before Form in Miniature Trap-Jaw Ants
• Researchers Model the Effects of Seasonal Animal Migration on Disease Transmission
• Coral Reefs Show “Ecological Memory” and Resilience to Rising Temperatures
• Disease Ecology Research Briefs
• Researchers Identify Rules for Predicting Climate Change Effects on Host-Parasite Interactions

Outreach

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, UGA form Network for Engineering with Nature
• EcoReach Creates Virtual Science Lessons for Kids

Inside the School

• Newly Described Fish Species Named in Honor of Bud and Mary Freeman
• Awards and Honors
• Retirements
• Meet Our Newest Faculty
• In Memoriam
• Alumni News
• Honor Roll of Donors

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Welcome to EcoVoice 2015, the Odum School of Ecology’s annual magazine.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Feature Story: From Wormsloe to the World
One of Georgia’s most historically and environmentally significant places is home to innovative interdisciplinary research.

Articles

• Ecology of Infectious Diseases
• Cancelled Flights
• Nutrient Pollution Damages Streams in Ways Previously Unknown
• Species Going Extinct 1,000 Times Faster Than in Pre-Human Times
• UGA Hosts International Conference on Ecology, Evolution of Infectious Diseases
• Watershed UGA
• Odum School Introduces New Bachelor of Arts Degree in Ecology

Departments

• News Briefs
• Student Profiles
• Odum Lecture: Nancy Grimm
• Alumni News
• Graduate Student Symposium
• Spring Fling
• Meet Our Newest Faculty
• Inside the School
• Honor Roll of Donors
• In Print

Download: Ecovoice 2015

Writer: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

Contact: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

EcoVoice is back! Find out more about the latest happenings at the Odum School of Ecology.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Feature Story: Blue Is the New Green
The UGA River Basin Center is meeting Georgia’s water challenges

Articles

• Ecosystem Services: Report finds protecting natural areas makes good fiscal sense
• Climate Change: As climate and disease links become clearer, study highlights need to forecast future shifts
• Coral Reef Ecology in the Caribbean and Pacific
• Drought Affects the Carbon Cycle in Georgia Blackwater Rivers
• New Model to Assess Fish Passage
• Improving Global Conservation Funding
• On Cricket Sex and Gender Discrimination in Science: Marlene Zuk speaks at UGA
• EcoFocus Film Festival 2014

Departments

• Student Profiles
• Alumni News
• Spring Fling
• Faculty Profile
• Inside the School
• Honor Roll of Donors
• In Print

Download: EcoVoice 2014

Writer: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

Contact: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

EcoVoice is back! Find out more about the latest happenings at the Odum School of Ecology.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Features

• A Question of Latitude
• Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Recovery
• Hotspots and Silver Bullets
• Using Social Networks to Fight Disease

Articles

• The Ecology of Fear
• EcoReach Expands
• EcoFocus Film Festival 2013
• Symposium Honoring Professor Emeritus Bernard Patten
• Spring Fling: Costa R(on)ica!

Departments

• Notes from the Dean
• Student Profiles
• Alumni News
• Faculty Profile
• Inside the School
• Honor Roll of Donors
• In Print

Download: EcoVoice 2013

Writer: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

Contact: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

EcoVoice 2012 covers events at the Odum School from Spring 2011 to Summer 2012.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Futurity: The Next Five Years and Beyond, by Dean John Gittleman
• Mohan Receives NSF Grant to Study “Forests of the Future”
• OSE Outreach: RBC Staff, Students Review Southeastern Green Building Programs
• OSE Undergraduates: What We’ve Been Up To, by Malavika Rajeev
• The Future of UGA Sustainability: The Time is Now, by OSE IDEA Board Chair Rutherford Seydel
• Research Spotlight: Unraveling the Ecology and Evolution of Bat Rabies
• 2012 Graduate Student Symposium, by Kyle McKay and Kimberly Kellett
• Ecology Awards
• Former Student and Professor Return to UGA Campus for a Seminar Highlighting Their Work
• Professor Emeritus Bruce Wallace Honored by Colleagues at NABS Annual Meeting
• Alumni News
• New Faculty Highlight: ElizabethKing
• First Annual Parents and Families Day, by Lee Snelling
• Inside the School: Student, Post Doc, Faculty, and Staff News
• Professors Appointed to Emeritus Status
• 2011 Donor Honor Roll

Download: EcoVoice 2012

Writer: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

Contact: Beth Gavrilles, [email protected]

EcoVoice is back! Find out more about the latest happenings at the Odum School of Ecology.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Ecology Responds to Gulf Oil Spill
• Ecology Small Grants  Fund Grad Student Research
• Notes from Dean Gittleman
• A World Premiere, U.S. Premiere, and Inspiring Environmental Films from Around the World
• Odum School Outreach
• Odum School Lives Up to the Legacy: Dr. Eugene Odum is Celebrated through the School’s Green Initiatives
• Alumni News
• Upcoming Events
• Dave Coleman Publishes Big Ecology
• Graduate Student Symposium 2011Inside the School: Student News, Post Doc News, Faculty News, and Ecology Awards
• In Memoriam: Thelma Richardson

Download: EcoVoice 2011

Writer: Anisa S. Jimenez, [email protected]

Contact: Anisa S. Jimenez, [email protected]

In the Odum School’s bi-annual newsletter, read more about our environmental film festival, new faculty members, the undergraduate recycling effort, how we’re helping save a not-so-little piece of Ecuador, how the River Basin Center is working to protect coastal areas from global climate change, updates on our Green Building and much more!

IN THIS ISSUE:

EcoFocus Film Festival – page 1
Notes from the Dean – page 2
Undergraduates help provide UGA gameday recycling – page 2
Fundacion Maquipucuna – page 3
Ecology Movers and Shakers – page 4
2008 Annual Awards Banquet winners announced – page 5
Launch of new Odum School web site – page 5
Organic farming good for environment – and pocketbook – page 6
River Basin Center receives grant to address coastal climate change – page 6
Breaking News – page 7
Green Building progress – page 7
Donor profile:  Rebecca Bell – page 8

Download: EcoVoice Fall 2008/ Winter 2009.

Writer: Anisa S. Jimenez, [email protected]

Contact: Anisa S. Jimenez, [email protected]

EcoVoice Spring/Summer 2008

Writer: Anisa S. Jimenez, [email protected]

Contact: Anisa S. Jimenez, [email protected]

Odum Update: Fall 2007