Congrats to our own Sonia Altizer, named an ESA Fellow!

For April's #ResearchRewind , we're celebrating #EarthMonth and the UGA researchers who have dedicated their careers to studying the planet. Odum School of Ecology's James Porter is a professor emeritus who continues to advocate for coral reef protection.

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🏆🌿 A trailblazing capstone project for UGA's Sustainability Certificate won the Green Sports Innovation Award for the first Zero Waste UGA Athletics program! 🌍♻️ This Earth Week, 🐾 stomp out your carbon pawprint—support sustainability at UGA! t.uga.edu/9QX

🎓🔄 Students funded by the Seydel Award in Sustainability created Reduce, Reuse, Regalia, a graduation gown rental program that's eco-friendly and affordable. 🌍💚 🌱 🐾 Stomp out your carbon pawprint—support Odum students committed to sustainability! t.uga.edu/9QX

🌿🦋 Students funded by the Seydel Award in Sustainability remove invasive plants on campus and replace them with native pollinators. 🌎🌼 🌱 This Earth Week, celebrate their efforts to foster healthier biodiversity and stomp out your carbon pawprint! 🐾💚 t.uga.edu/9QX

Meet Laura Naslund: dedicated field researcher, ecologist-turned-biogeochemist/infrastructure expert, and powerhouse graduate student. Fresh off defending her doctoral dissertation, we sat down with Naslund to look back on her PhD journey. 

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Join us TODAY for our last spring Ecology seminar: 'Modern disturbances alter the role of nitrogen fixers in ecosystem recovery' by Nina Wurzburger, associate professor, Odum School of Ecology.

Wednesday, April 24, 10:20 a.m., Ecology auditorium.

Hope to see you there!

Mark your calendars for our last spring Ecology seminar: 'Modern disturbances alter the role of nitrogen fixers in ecosystem recovery' by Nina Wurzburger, associate professor, Odum School of Ecology.

Wednesday, April 24, 10:20 a.m., Ecology auditorium.

Hope to see you there!

🌍♻️ The average American’s carbon footprint weighs in at a whopping 16 tons per year! Celebrate Earth Week by helping us raise $1,600 for the Sustainability Support Fund in Ecology. 🌿🐾 Stomp out your carbon pawprint and help protect our world. 💚✨ t.uga.edu/9QX

I guess it’s announcement time 😮‍💨
In August 2024, I’ll be starting my new position as Assistant Professor & Director of the new cert program in Restoration Ecology & Engineering With Nature at Odum School of Ecology. Coming soon to an academia near you: the Wildlife & Water lab!

The world's oldest wombat
ABC Hobart Odum School of Ecology
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Join us TODAY: 'Rethinking streams: Five ideas for advancing freshwater conservation and management' by Seth Wenger, associate professor, Odum School of Ecology; director of science, River Basin Center.

Wed., April 17, 10:20 a.m., Ecology auditorium.

Hope to see you there!

How fast can a #wombat run? Faster than Usain St. Leo Bolt?
Odum School of Ecology
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Mark your calendars: 'Rethinking streams: Five ideas for advancing freshwater conservation and management' by Seth Wenger, associate professor, Odum School of Ecology; director of science, River Basin Center.

Wed., April 17, 10:20 a.m., Ecology auditorium.

Hope to see you there!

The Lilac-breasted Roller is always dressed for spring. This monogamous bird mates for life, with courtship rituals that include swooping, diving, and rolling through the air. Lilac-breasted Rollers are so at home in the sky that they also breed in flight!

Join us TODAY for an ecology seminar with Odum assistant professor Takao Sasaki: 'Collective behavior in ants'

10:20 a.m. in the Ecology auditorium. Hope to see you there!

Congrats to Odum's Jeb Byers, named a 2024 Distinguished Research Professor! An internationally prominent scientist in population, community and marine ecology, he is known for quantifying and predicting the success of biological invasions. t.uga.edu/9Pt @ugaresearch

IRIS is proud to recognize our faculty and student affiliates who have been honored during UGA Honors Week:

Jeb Byers, Odum School of Ecology
Katie Foster and Cydney Seigerman, Anthropology at UGA
Kate Winters, UGA Engineering

Learn more here: iris.uga.edu/2024/04/04/uga…

Great to work with such talented colleagues to advance understanding of treating disease in wildlife: “The effects of spatially-constrained treatment regions upon a model of wombat mange”
Odum School of Ecology CEID University of Tasmania
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Join us TODAY for an ecology seminar with Kimberly Sheldon of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: 'The impact of temperature variation on physiology, behavior, and biotic responses to climate change'

10:20 a.m. in the Ecology auditorium. Hope to see you there!