This year’s Ecological Society of America’s Annual Conference will feature a number of speakers from the Odum School of Ecology, as well as speakers affiliated with other UGA schools and colleges.
Megan Vahsen will join the Odum School of Ecology as an assistant professor in January 2025.
For her dissertation, Carolyn Cummins (PhD ’24) investigated how temperature affects leaf litter breakdown, carbon cycling and insect physiology in freshwater ecosystems—work that is becoming more important as climate change impacts water systems globally.
Ecology professor Scott Carver is probably best known for his work explaining why wombat poo is square (which won him a 2019 Ig Nobel Prize). Since arriving in January, he’s been working to apply his expertise in new areas while leveraging UGA’s significant resources in disease ecology.
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.”
Sonia Altizer, the Martha Odum Distinguished Professor of Ecology, was named a 2024 Fellow by the Ecological Society of America.
In this Forests for Monarchs article, Dean Mark Hunter shares four actions you can take to have a positive impact on monarch butterfly conservation.
New research published in Science by Krista Capps and J.P. Schmidt reveals that humans may be accelerating decomposition of organic matter in waterways, which could exacerbate greenhouse gas emissions and threaten biodiversity.
Odum faculty Jim and Karen Porter retired in 2016, but their impact on students continues through an endowment fund that supports research by ecology undergraduates.
The Odum School of Ecology celebrated spring 2024 graduation with a convocation ceremony on May 9 at UGA’s Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel.