Ecology students awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Ecology majors Theresa Stratmann and Buck Trible have been awarded 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, two of the four received by UGA students this year.
EcoFocus Film Festival Unveils 2012 Film Lineup
The 2012 EcoFocus Film Festival, which runs from March 23-31 at Cin? and various locations across the University of Georgia campus, includes something for everyone with 18 feature-length and 22 short films on a wide range of environmental topics.
Ecology undergraduate one of nine 2011-2012 Crane Scholars
Ecology undergraduate Malavika Rajeev was one of nine University of Georgia students awarded the William Moore Crane Leadership Scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Moree receives public policy internship from American Society of Mammalogists
Graduate student James Moree has been awarded the American Society of Mammalogists-American Institute of Biological Sciences Public Policy Internship for fall 2011.
Study: Severe low temperatures devastate coral reefs in Florida Keys
Increased seawater temperatures are known to be a leading cause of the decline of coral reefs all over the world. Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that extreme low temperatures affect certain corals in much the same way that high temperatures do, with potentially catastrophic consequences for coral ecosystems.
EcoFocus Film Festival announces 2012 dates and issues call for submissions
The fourth annual EcoFocus Film Festival will take place from March 23-31 in Athens, Ga., and is accepting film submissions until September 15, 2011.
Inaugural Sustainable UGA Awards given for outstanding student, faculty, staff
Odum School Associate Dean Laurie Fowler and undergraduate Sheena Zhang ’11 were named Sustainable UGA Outstanding Faculty and Outstanding Student by the UGA Office of Sustainability at a ceremony in April.
EcoVoice 2011, Vol. 2 No. 1
EcoVoice is back! Find out more about the latest happenings at the Odum School of Ecology.
UGA scientists find climate change affects amphibian breeding
Researchers from the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, writing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggest that the breeding periods of several salamander and frog species have shifted over the last thirty years, possibly due to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns.
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.