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UGA researchers to study transmission of human pathogen to coral reefs

Oct 2010

The spread of lethal diseases from animals to humans has long been an issue of great concern to public health officials. But what about diseases that spread in the other direction, from humans to wildlife? Odum School Associate Dean James W. Porter has received a five-year $2 million Ecology of Infectious Diseases grant from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health to lead a study of the first known case of such a ?reverse zoonosis? that involves the transmission of a human pathogen to a marine invertebrate, elkhorn coral.

Associate Dean Laurie Fowler receives Ogden Doremus Award for Excellence in Environmental Law

Oct 2010

Laurie Fowler, associate dean of the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, received the Ogden Doremus Award for Excellence in Environmental Law from the non-profit public interest legal group GreenLaw at a ceremony in Atlanta on Oct. 5, 2010.

Professor Emeritus Gene Helfman delivers Smith Memorial Lecture

Oct 2010

Professor Emeritus Gene Helfman delivered the 2010 Smith Memorial Lecture at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) in Grahamstown, South Africa.

Professor Emerita Judy Meyer receives Naumann-Thienemann medal from the International Society of Limnology

Oct 2010

Judith L. Meyer, distinguished research professor emerita in the UGA Odum School of Ecology, has been awarded the 2010 Naumann-Thienemann medal from the International Society of Limnology.

UGA students testing the waters with real-world environmental lessons

Oct 2010

A front-page story in the Oct. 12 issue of the Athens Banner Herald featured Associate Dean Laurie Fowler’s Fall 2010 Environmental Practicum class.

Associate Professor Jeb Byers featured in Columns

Sep 2010

The August 30 issue of UGA’s Columns newspaper featured a profile of Odum School Associate Professor Jeb Byers. Read the full article here: Ecologist looks at oil spill impact on oysters

Researchers to study anthropogenic drivers of rabies in vampire bats

Sep 2010

A team of researchers, led by associate professor Sonia Altizer with PhD student Daniel Streicker of the UGA Odum School of Ecology, will study the factors that drive the spread of rabies with a $580,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study of rabies in vampire bats in Peru.

Study may help predict extinction tipping point for species

Sep 2010

What if there were a way to predict when a species was about to become extinct?in time to do something about it? Findings from a study by John M. Drake, associate professor in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, and Blaine D. Griffen, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, may eventually lead to such an outcome?and that is only the start.

UGA researchers demonstrate relationship between predation and extinction in small populations

Sep 2010

A study by Odum School of Ecology postdoctoral researcher Andrew M. Kramer and associate professor John M. Drake has important implications for the conservation of threatened and endangered species and the management of invasive species.

Research by Odum Schools Mohan cited by the Washington Post

Aug 2010

A recent article in the Washington Post about this year’s bumper crop of poison ivy cited research by Odum School assistant professor Jacqueline Mohan.