Third Wednesday Game Night with Dr. Karen Bareford
Last week Dr. Karen Bareford, the National Sea Grant and Water Resources Lead, delivered a Third Wednesday talk on the water resource efforts of the Sea Grant Network and its key partners, as well as the publicly available National Water Model. Afterwards, she presented the new Watershed Game: Coast Model, an engagement tool allowing players […]
RBC Policy Director Search
The RBC is hosting three Environmental Policy talks this spring. Dr. Catherine Macdonald has already given the first talk, on February 17. View a recording here. The next two are coming up soon, so mark your calendars: Friday, Feb 25, 9:30am: Dr. Animesh Gain. This is a virtual event. The Zoom link will be distributed […]
Susan Wilde Receives Newcomb Cleveland Prize
RBC Affiliate Susan Wilde, associate professor of aquatic science at the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and Timo Niedermeyer, professor of pharmacognosy at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany have received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for their research on the emerging problems posed by toxic cyanobacteria in aquatic habitats and effects on bald […]
Rhett Jackson Critiques Twin Pines Groundwater Flow Study
Twin Pines Minerals LLC has proposed a titanium mine adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. RBC affiliate Rhett Jackson recently conducted a scientific evaluation of two of the hydrologic reports prepared for the proposed mine. Click here to read Dr. Jackson’s review. Learn more about efforts to protect the Okefenokee Swamp here.
Sacred Waters: the Okeefenokee in Peril
RBC affiliates Rhett Jackson and Lori Sutter are featured in Sacred Waters: The Okefenokee in Peril, a documentary about the current titanium mining threat facing Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Sacred Waters is presented by the Okefenokee Protection Alliance (OPA), a coalition of more than 40 organizations, with the support of the National Parks Conservation Association. Okefenokee is the largest refuge in the eastern half of the United […]
Distinctive Connectivities of Near-Stream and Watershed-Wide Land Uses Differentially Degrade Rural Aquatic Ecosystems
A new BioScience article from RBC faculty affiliates Rhett Jackson, David Leigh, Amy Rosemond, and RBC Director Seth Wenger Congratulations to RBC faculty affiliates Rhett Jackson, David Leigh, Amy Rosemond, and RBC Director Seth Wenger on their recently published BioScience article, “Distinctive Connectivities of Near-Stream and Watershed-Wide Land Uses Differentially Degrade Rural Aquatic Ecosystems”! You […]