UGA researchers to leverage AI, remote sensing for NASA-funded conservation project
Nov 2023
In a NASA grant project focused on levee setbacks, UGA scientists are filling a critical gap in biodiversity benefit assessment for USACE.
Ecology Fall Convocation 2023
Nov 2023
The Odum School of Ecology Fall 2023 Convocation will take place on Thursday, Dec. 14, in the Ecology Building.
Parts of Clean Water Act not effective in controlling nutrient pollution
Nov 2023
Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972. It remains the guiding legislation for regulating America’s water quality. But new research from the University of Georgia suggests parts of it may not be working. The study found that Clean Water Act regulations haven’t significantly reduced the amount of nonpoint source nutrient pollution in America’s waterways.
Nutrient pollution reduces nutrient retention services of streams, new research shows
Oct 2023
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.
Ecology lecturer identifies solutions
Oct 2023
Alli Injaian, lecturer and academic coordinator at the Odum School of Ecology, sometimes feels like a talent manager. Fifty percent of her job is teaching, but the other 50% involves instructional service and administrative responsibilities like determining faculty teaching assignments.
UGA’s Lipp Named Georgia Power Professor
Oct 2023
University of Georgia College of Public Health professor and Odum courtesy faculty Erin Lipp has been appointed to the Georgia Power Professorship in Environmental Health Science.
Dean’s Corner, September 2023
Sep 2023
UGA Odum School of Ecology Dean Mark Hunter’s message for September 2023.
UGA researchers work to save an iconic plant in the Lowcountry
Sep 2023
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.
Hunter, Altizer named Odum chair and professor
Sep 2023
Dean Mark Hunter has been named the Eugene Odum Chair in Ecology, and Sonia Altizer has been named the Martha Odum Distinguished Professor in Ecology at the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology.
Temperature-dependent sex determination in alligators linked to survival, UGA research suggests
Sep 2023
Temperature-dependent sex determination in alligators is linked to survival, according to new research from Benjamin Parrott, associate professor in the Odum School of Ecology.