Researchers to study anthropogenic drivers of rabies in vampire bats
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
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
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
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.
UGA researchers unlocking the secrets of cross-species rabies transmission
Like most infectious diseases, rabies can attack several species. However, which species are going to be infected and why turns out to be a difficult problem that represents a major gap in our knowledge of how diseases emerge. A paper just published in the journal Science by a team of researchers led by Daniel G. Streicker, a Ph.D. student in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, has begun to close that knowledge gap.
A conversation with Tom Shannon, PhD 2007
How would you prepare for being interviewed on the NBC Nightly News? And how would you respond to being parodied by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show? Tom Shannon, Ecology PhD ?07, recently had the chance to find out.
Odum School recognizes outstanding students and faculty
The Odum School of Ecology recognized graduate and undergraduate students who have won prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships this year, and announced the winners of the 2010 Ecology departmental awards at the annual Ecology Spring Fling celebration at Flinchum?s Phoenix on April 29.
Odum School awards degrees at spring 2010 commencement
Seventeen students graduated from the Odum School with degrees in ecology on May 8, 2010.
Jeb Byers named to NRC committee that will set ballast water discharge limits
Jeb Byers, associate professor in the Odum School of Ecology, has been appointed to the National Research Council’s Committee on Assessing Numeric Limits for Living Organisms in Ballast Water. The committee will conduct a study to inform the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard how to establish environmentally protective ballast water discharge limits in the next Vessel General Permit, which regulates discharges incidental to the normal operation of vessels.
Professor emeritus David C. Coleman publishes new history of ecosystem science
Odum School of Ecology professor emeritus David C. Coleman has written a new ecology text book. Big Ecology: The Emergence of Ecosystem Science, published by the University of California Press and available this month, provides a personal overview of the history and development of the science of ecosystem ecology. Coleman has been part of the evolution of ecosystem ecology since the 1960s, when he first came to UGA as an assistant professor and research associate.