UGA SREL’s 9th Annual “Touch An Animal Day”
TAAD is SREL’s largest outreach event.
TAAD is SREL’s largest outreach event.
REMOP is a community outreach program designed to educate Burke County residents about environmental monitoring including metals and radioactive elements.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, this is the only REU program allowing students to study the fate, transport and effects of radioactive elements in the environment.
Haskins took blood samples and clipped the claws of 81 yellow-bellied sliders.
The Eco-Meet challenges student teams
https://ugaresearch.uga.edu/eat-and-be-eaten/
“Residence time is a critical determinant in the amount of contaminant a bird accumulates,”
Santanu Mukherjee, Pacifico Perea and Megan Winzeler will expand the lab’s outreach efforts in the South Carolina and Georgia communities surrounding the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site
“The main message that I would take away from this is that raccoons are important sentinels of contaminant exposure…”
Raccoons are an ideal species for studying the uptake of environmental contaminants.