Watershed UGA announces winners of Daylighting the Watershed design competition
Watershed UGA, an interdisciplinary initiative to create a culture of sustainability focused on campus waterways, has awarded prizes of $1,000 each to two teams of University of Georgia students for their winning entries in the Daylighting the Watershed design competition.
Porter says millennials can save the world
The world is on the edge of catastrophe, but millennials can save it, according to Professor James W. Porter.
Ecological Society of America presents the Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education to UGA alumni Carolyn Thomas and Bob Pohlad
UGA alumni Carolyn Thomas, MS Ecology ’78, and Bob Pohlad, PhD Plant Pathology ’78, both professors at Ferrum College in Virginia, are to be jointly honored by the Ecological Society of America with the Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education at the ESA 2016 annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale.
Ecologists identify potential new sources of Ebola and other filoviruses
An international team of ecologists has identified the bat species with the greatest potential to harbor filoviruses, a family that includes Ebola virus. The likeliest virus hosts include species ranging from Southeast Asia to Central and South America.
Faculty Awards & Nominations
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Genetic mutation may offer protection from sea star wasting disease, but at a price
Researchers at the University of Georgia and the University of California, Merced, have found that a genetic mutation may affect how a common species of sea star responds to sea star wasting disease.
Jill Anderson receives NSF CAREER award
Jill Anderson, an assistant professor of genetics in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Odum School of Ecology, has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Program to study the effects of climate change on plants.
UGA study finds Saharan dust affects marine bacteria, potential pathogen Vibrio
Atmospherically transported dust from north Africa’s Sahara Desert provides pulses of biologically important nutrients, including iron, to the tropical marine waters of the Caribbean and southeastern U.S. Researchers from UGA have found that Vibrio bacteria respond rapidly to this influx , leading to large blooms of the potentially harmful bacteria in ocean surface water.
Species extinction can doom parasites important for ecosystem health, UGA study finds
The effects of an animal population?s extinction may echo beyond the original species, new Odum School research finds. Loss of a population could ultimately result in the extinction of parasites?which are critical for a healthy ecosystem.
The Next Infectious Disease Hotspots
UGA study pinpoints the likeliest rodent sources of future human infectious diseases Researchers at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology have developed a way to predict which species of rodents are likeliest to be sources of new disease outbreaks in humans.