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Call for Abstracts | Confluence: UGA Water Science And Policy Poster Symposium

Cheryth France
August 16, 2023

The River Basin Center invites UGA graduate students who are conducting water science or policy research in any field to participate in a poster contest, Confluence: UGA Water Science & Policy Poster Symposium. The contest and following social will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 20 at the UGA Special

Inside Georgia’s oyster disease epidemic

Cheryth France
July 25, 2023

Researchers at the Odum School of Ecology—including River Basin Center affiliate Jeb Byers—are studying oyster disease in Georgia.

GMNH zoological collection available online

Cheryth France
July 18, 2023

The Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia is vast, with collections spread across a number of campus facilities. But now, for the first time, one of its zoological collections can be viewed online.

How nature-based solutions can benefit freshwater biodiversity

Cheryth France
July 12, 2023

Affiliate Charles van Rees spoke with the Freshwater Blog about how nature-based solutions can benefit freshwater biodiversity.

Conservation, freshwater ecosystems, tropical ecology: Pringle’s contributions

Cheryth France
June 1, 2023

Affiliate Catherine Pringle, a distinguished research professor at UGA, has had a decorated career, from earning UGA’s creative research medal to publishing 197 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 50 book chapters and symposium proceedings, and co-editing three books.

A backbone of bugs: The tiny drivers of freshwater ecology

Cheryth France
May 24, 2023

Aquatic entomologist and River Basin Center affiliate Darold Batzer and other researchers from the Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences have spent their careers discovering how factors like climate change, pollution and urbanization impact insects. Uncovering changes to the well-being of insects provides clues to the drivers

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