Sustainability science is the study of the interactions between natural and social systems. Conservation ecology is the study of the effects of human activity on species and ecosystems with the goal of protecting biodiversity and preventing species extinction.
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Joint appointment: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Ecology building, Rm. 121
Office: (706) 542-9673
Fax: (706) 542-4819
kcapps@uga.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Graduate Program Faculty
Senior Public Service Associate Emeritus
Graduate Program Faculty
River Basin Center
Office: (706) 583-0463
lfowler@uga.edu
Senior Public Service Associate and Director of the Georgia Museum of Natural History
Graduate Program Faculty
River Basin Center, Rm. 104
Office: (706) 583-0978
Fax: (706) 542-4819
bud@ttrout.ecology.uga.edu
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Joint appointment: Dept. of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine
Ecology building, Rm. 137
rjhall@uga.edu
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Joint Appointment: Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Biological Sciences building, Rm. 710
Office: (706) 542-1348
egking@uga.edu
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Biological Sciences building, Rm. 708
Office: (706)-542-3363
Fax: (706) 542-3363
jmohan@uga.edu
UGA Athletic Association Professor in Ecology
Graduate Program Faculty
Graduate Coordinator
Ecology building, Rm. 25/32
Office: (706) 713-2051
Fax: (706) 542-4819
osenberg@uga.edu
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Joint appointment: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Office: (803) 725-6328
Fax: (803) 725-7471
benparrott@srel.uga.edu
Distinguished Research Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Professor Emeritus
UGA Athletic Association Professor in Applied Ecology
Director of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Graduate Program Faculty
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, PO Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802
Office: (803) 725-8191
Fax: (803) 725-3309
rhodes@srel.uga.edu
UGA Foundation Professor in Ecology
Distinguished Research Professor
Graduate Program Faculty
Ecology building, Rm. 189
Office: (706) 542-3903
Fax: (706) 542-4819
rosemond@uga.edu
Associate Professor
Director of Science, River Basin Center
Graduate Program Faculty
River Basin Center
Office: (208) 340-7046
swenger@uga.edu
Associate Research Scientist, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Graduate Program Faculty
Office: (803) 725-0988
lance@srel.uga.edu
Assistant Professor
Director of Policy, River Basin Center
Graduate Program Faculty
River Basin Center, 203 D. W. Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30602
sechindra.vallury@uga.edu
Few nutrients are as fundamental to or ubiquitous in modern life as nitrogen and phosphorus. As fertilizers, they form the bedrock of our global agricultural systems—but at a cost to our waterways.
Researcher Elizabeth KIng, associate professor in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, is on a mission to monitor, restore and conserve the native sweetgrass populations along the Georgia coast.
When small hydroelectric projects began dotting the rivers of the Western Ghats, a strip of mountains that runs parallel to the west coast of Peninsular India, Odum and Integrative Conservation (ICON) graduate student Shishir Rao pivoted from a career in IT to study their impact.