Last summer, a minnow called the laurel dace faced extinction when drought dried up the few streams where it lives in southeastern Tennessee. Conservation biologists rescued two populations to keep at the Tennessee Aquarium, and now two Odum School graduate students are working with other researchers and local residents to save the endangered fish.
New research from Jeb Byers, Ben Parrott and Kristen Zemaitis (MS ’23) uncovers increased levels of mercury in the state’s swamps.
Three of five Fellows named by the Society for Freshwater Science are connected to the Odum School.
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.
Convocation speaker Ethell Vereen (PhD ’10) urged Ecology’s spring 2025 graduates to acknowledge the influences that helped make them.
New research from Megan Hopson (PhD ’22) puts a dollar value on consumers’ preference for purified water over reused or recycled water.
Ecology undergrad Michael Skibsted earns a Udall Scholarship.
UGA researchers including Ecology faculty are exploring how new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) could boost efforts to protect species and restore habitats in the future.
Ants are hardwired to accept just one queen or multiple queens, but a minority can change the way others behave, an Odum School researcher found.
New research from Jill Anderson is published in Science.