Tag: Environment

UGA Press secures the Bruce and Georgia McEver Fund for Arts and Environment Publications

The University of Georgia Press has established the Bruce and Georgia McEver Fund for the…
Farmland management changes can boost carbon sequestration rates

Well-maintained pastures prevent erosion, protect water and, as it turns out, can restore the soil’s…
UGA faculty, alumni named Ecological Society of America Fellows

Craig Osenberg, a professor in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, has been…
Annual Sustainable UGA Awards given to outstanding students, faculty, staff

Four members of the University of Georgia community received high marks from the UGA Office…
UGA Marine Extension launches Georgia Seafood Directory

A revamped online seafood directory that aims to help Georgia consumers and retailers gain better…
Dale Greene named dean of UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

W. Dale Greene, a long-serving faculty member and administrator in the University of Georgia’s Warnell…
Threatened reef-building corals have diverse symbiotic algae partners, UGA study finds

Continued University of Georgia research on the threatened Caribbean reef-building coral, Orbicella faveolata, finds that…
Ocean fronts improve climate and fishery production, UGA study finds

A recent study by the University of Georgia found that ocean fronts—separate regions of warm…
UGA research links prescribed burning to reduced tick populations

In the spring, summer and early fall months, lone star ticks, the most common type…
UGA food safety expert: Proper food preparation can prevent botulism

A recent deadly outbreak of botulism in Ohio underscores the necessity for proper home canning…
Blueberry research focuses on gentler methods of harvesting tiny fruit

Getting more blueberries from the field to the grocery store, without hurting their quality, is…
Evening at Skidaway examines black gill in shrimp

In recent years, Georgia shrimpers have been very concerned about black gill, a mysterious condition…
Warming climate may release vast amounts of carbon from long-frozen Arctic soils

While climatologists are carefully watching carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, another group of scientists…
UGA College of Engineering to host screening of ‘eXXpedition’ at Cine

For someone who spends much of her time studying the flow of plastic waste into…
UGA, Food Bank of Northeast Georgia partner to increase access to local food, jobs

The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia’s food hub, housed in its Rabun County facility, will…
Animal parasite study could help humans ‘manage nasty diseases’

The evolutionary history, body size and geographic range of an animal species are predictors for…
Five years after oil spill, UGA’s Samantha Joye still leading research in the Gulf

Five years ago, on April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil well drilling platform exploded…
Parasite load influences outcome of animal fights, UGA student study finds

University of Georgia ecologist Andy Davis and his students studied beetles and their parasite loads…
SREL to offer first undergraduate program in radioecology

The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory recently received a three-year National Science Foundation…
UGA scientists seek public’s help in tracking new stink bug

University of Georgia entomologists are asking Georgians to help track an insect that loves to…
2015 UGA Earth Week to celebrate green initiatives, volunteer opportunities

Each spring, the University of Georgia hosts UGA Earth Week to encourage sustainable living. The…
UGA hopes to break records with year-end recycling event for move-out

Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia aims to break a record with this year’s…
Ecologist Nancy Grimm to deliver 2015 Odum Lecture at UGA

Ecologist Nancy Grimm will deliver the 30th annual Odum Lecture at the University of Georgia…
UGA researchers find hormone receptor that allows mosquitoes to reproduce

University of Georgia entomologists have unlocked one of the hormonal mechanisms that allow mosquitoes to…