Odum School of Ecology Professor Emerita Judith L. Meyer delivers Abel Wolman Distinguished lecture at National Academy of Sciences
Judith L. Meyer, distinguished research professor emerita in the UGA Odum School of Ecology, delivered the seventeenth annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture of the Water Science and Technology Board. The lecture, ?Flowing Water, In and For Cities,? took place on April 14 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
Undergraduate ecology and scientific illustration double major recognized at joint UGA-MCG exhibition with two awards
Elizabeth Nixon, an undergraduate double major in Ecology and Scientific Illustration, won two awards at the 17th annual Science and Medical Illustration Exhibition, held from Feb. 23 – March 8 at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art. The exhibition showcases the work of undergraduate scientific illustration students from UGA and graduate medical illustration students from the Medical College of Georgia, and is juried by faculty from both institutions.
UGA Ecology PhD candidate receives three-year NOAA graduate research fellowship
Virginia Schutte, a Ph.D. student in the UGA Odum School of Ecology, has been awarded a highly competitive three-year National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) graduate research fellowship. She will study the effects of nutrient pollution on red mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) in Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico.
Odum School researchers organize international workshop on carbon cycling in tropical streams
The University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop: ?Carbon cycling and transport in tropical streams.? The workshop, which takes place April 15-17, 2010, at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, is organized by Ph.D. student Chip Small and Distinguished Research Professor Catherine Pringle of the Odum School of Ecology, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
SREL researcher’s photographic works make news
J.D. Willson, who received his Ph.D. from the UGA Odum School of Ecology in 2009, is a post-doctoral research associate at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL), where he studies semi-aquatic snake population and community dynamics and ecology of invasive Burmese pythons. But it is Willson?s growing reputation as a wildlife photographer that was the subject of a profile that appeared in the Augusta Chronicle.
Associate Dean James Porter’s Vieques research cited by CNN
A CNN Special Investigations team reports that residents of Vieques are suing the U.S. government over contamination left behind by the U.S. military. The report cites research by James Porter, Associate Dean of the Odum School of Ecology.
Chip Small featured in JNABS Article Spotlight
Chip Small, a PhD student at the Odum School of Ecology, is featured in the ?Article Spotlight? in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of the North American Benthological Society. The article by Small, OSE doctoral student Ashley Helton, and Caner Kazanci, Assistant Professor in the UGA Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Engineering, is entitled ?Can consumer stoichiometric regulation control nutrient spiraling in streams?? The article explores how consumers affect the downstream movement of different elements in stream ecosystems.
Richard Hall receives 2010 NIMBioS Visiting Scholar Award
Richard Hall, Assistant Research Scientist in the Odum School of Ecology, has received a 2010 Short Term Visiting Scholar Award from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS).
Long-term study finds that nutrient enrichment of headwater stream disrupts food web in unexpected ways
Human activity is increasing the supply of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, to stream systems all over the world. The conventional wisdom ? bolstered by earlier research ? has held that these additional nutrients cause an increase in production all along the food chain, from the tiniest organisms up to the largest predators. A long-term, ecosystem-scale study by a team of University of Georgia researchers, however, has thrown this assumption into question.
Noted in Nature
A paper coauthored by UGA Odum School of Ecology Assistant Professor John Drake with Blaine Griffen of the University of South Carolina was noted in the Research Highlights section of the October 1 issue of the journal Nature.