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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.
The team of researchers from UGA’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory is the first to study vertebrate and invertebrate scavenging of invasive species on an island.
People rarely contemplate the impact of nuclear activity unless power plants or nuclear production facilities reside near their communities. Those who live far from a nuclear facility, generally think about the environmental impacts of nuclear activities after an accident like Fukushima or Chernobyl.
The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory recently hosted the first joint meeting of the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers and the International Union of Radiologists.
The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory welcomed 13 undergraduate students to its 2016 cohort this summer to investigate environmental conditions on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site.
The University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory will begin working this summer with the community of Shell Bluff in Burke County to help its residents understand the impacts of nuclear industrial operations in the surrounding area.
Using long-term data and breeding history of female wood ducks, researchers at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory set out to determine what affects the waterfowl’s ability to reproduce and survive.
Thirty years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, became the site of the world’s largest nuclear accident.