Vallury joins River Basin Center as co-director, Odum as assistant professor
On August 1, Sechindra Vallury, a researcher in natural resource management and policy with a focus on how institutions can shape water governance and equity outcomes, joined Odum School of Ecology and the River Basin Center.
A Day in the Life of a Pond: Measuring Small-Reservoir Emissions to Inform Infrastructure Decisions
By 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday, June 21, Laura Naslund had already spent over an hour in a canoe on a little pond on the east side of Athens, Georgia. Naslund, a graduate student in the Odum School of Ecology and a 2022 Spencer Grant recipient, was finishing up the first field sampling event of her […]
Capps featured in UGA Today
Early last month, UGA Today featured RBC affiliate Krista Capps, highlighting her career and current work on aging water infrastructure and the impact of land use changes on water quality. The article, written by Beth Gavrilles, opens: “Krista Capps can point to the exact moment when she became a stream ecologist. ‘As an undergraduate, I majored […]
University units collaborate to host Climate and Water Research Slam
Great minds don’t necessarily think alike—and the River Basin Center feels that’s valuable. That’s why it partnered with The Office of Sustainability and the Georgia Initiative for Climate and Society to host the Climate and Water Research Slam on May 12, 1 to 5 p.m. Twenty-two speakers—including lawyers, engineers, ecologists and social scientists—from organizations across […]
2022 John Spencer Research Grant recipients announced
The River Basin Center is proud to announce that Cydney Seigerman, Laura Naslund and Ali Moss have been awarded John Spencer Research Grants for 2022. Seigerman, the first two-time recipient of the grant, is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Integrative Conservation (ICON.) Their research proposal focused on water insecurities in the semi-arid region of […]
Dr. Darold Batzer elected Fellow of the Society of Wetland Scientists
River Basin Center affiliate Darold Batzer was announced a Fellow of the Society of Wetland Scientists on Tuesday. To be named a Fellow is the highest recognition of membership that the organization confers, according to its website. Batzer, whose research is primarily in the ecology of freshwater wetland invertebrates, has been an active member for […]
River Basin Center affiliate helms Okefenokee case study
RBC affiliate Rhett Jackson and his colleagues recently published a case study highlighting the impacts of the 2020 ruling to replace the Clean Water Rule with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule on the Okefenokee Swamp, a Georgia swamp that lost federal protection under the new ruling. The article, “Redefining Water of the US: a Case […]
On Stream Warming and Food Chains: RBC Undergraduates present at UGA CURO Symposium
Olivia Allen and Ally Whiteis, undergraduate students in the Odum School of Ecology (and working with doctoral students Nathan Tomczyk and Carolyn Cummins) presented their research results at the UGA CURO symposium on April 4th. Both students found that stream organisms and food resources changed due to streamwater warming. Their experiments ranged from field measurements […]
RBC Student Affiliate Anuja Mittal Featured in Sanctuary Asia
RBC student affiliate and ICON PhD student Anuja Mital was featured in the April 2022 issue of Sanctuary Asia‘s Cover Story on Diversity & Inclusion in Field Biology. Check out the article here.
Precision Conservation of Imperiled Species
A tiny, rainbow-finned fish lives in the swiftly flowing waters of Georgia’s Etowah River. Known as the Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae), it exists only in the Etowah River Basin, mainly inhabiting the mountain streams of North Georgia. The Etowah darter is only one example of the diverse array of freshwater fish, amphibians, crawfish and mussels […]