Confluence poster event highlights graduate research
Thirty students showcased their research on Friday, Oct. 20, at the first annual graduate research poster contest. Their work spanned a range of policy and aquatic topics, from hydrodynamic models for analyzing land-to-ocean litter transport, to policy solutions addressing cattle’s unrestricted access to streams, to research on non-native catfish species. Posters also ranged widely in […]
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 […]
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 […]