As an affiliate of the River Basin Center, Franklin Leach manages monitoring equipment at the confluence of two branches of Tanyard Creek, streams that come together just south of Bolton Dining Hall in the middle of UGA campus. Tanyard Branch is a learning lab for UGA students from multiple colleges, and the
Devon Locke (left), Tre’Shur Williams-Carter (right) and Isabelle “Bell” Scherick (center) were awarded Spencer and Butler fellowships to attend Odum School. Locke and Williams-Carter are master’s students, while Scherick is working toward a Ph.D.
The Rowen Foundation will work with the Odum School of Ecology, Georgia Gwinnett College and Spelman College on a comprehensive research program focused on ecologically sustainable watershed development at the Rowen site, a 2,000-acre planned community in Gwinnett County. The study will examine how the development interacts with the area’s forest streams,