Lab: Parrott
Odum School of Ecology
Interested in ecological physiology and investigating how the environment influences development, genetic modifications, and the health of organisms
Lab: Parrott
Odum School of Ecology
Interested in understanding the mechanisms of temperature-dependent sex determination in alligators and the ways in which man-made stressors like climate change and environmental contaminants can possibly interact with these mechanisms to produce consequences at both the individual and population levels
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Studying wild pig reproduction ecology by investigating survival, dispersal, resource-selection behavior and physiology
Lab: Capps
Odum School of Ecology
Research investigates the long-term and historical impacts of development and urbanization on aquatic insect communities in Atlanta, Georgia, including exploring functional responses of stream invertebrates using species’ traits in order to determine which traits allow stream biota to survive in urbanizing regions
Lab: Tuberville
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research focuses on the physiological effects of anthropogenic contaminants in freshwater turtles and snakes; interests include the influence of anthropogenic disturbances on wildlife, ecotoxicology; life history and evolution of herpetofauna, and wildlife conservation
Lab: Martin
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests include upland game bird ecology, rangeland ecology, and wildlife parasitology; primary research focus is roosting behavior of northern bobwhite broods and using molecular techniques to elucidate the diets of bobwhite chicks
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Investigating the effects of heavy metal contamination on the health, reproduction, and survival of North American waterfowl; research interests include wildlife disease ecology, ecotoxicology, immunology, physiology, and reproductive ecology
Lab: Aubrey
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Broadly interested in forest ecology; current research focuses on fire ecology and tree physiology or the physiology of trees
Lab: Aubrey
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests are primarily in plant physiology and ecology as well as the use of mathematical modeling to study patterns in plant physiology
Lab: Tuberville
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests and experience include reintroducing gopher tortoises, massasaugas, and flatwood salamanders; currently working in turtle conservation and management
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Investigating the efficiency and dynamics of carrion removal within the southeastern United States; research interests include wildlife damage management, species interactions, nutrient cycling and conservation biology
Lab: Tuberville
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interested in wildlife conservation and behavioral ecology; research investigates survival, movement, and the physiological condition of head-started Mojave desert tortoises
Lab: Abrams
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research focuses on social-ecological resilience as a guiding principle in forest management, and how the concept has been implemented across U.S. Forest Service lands
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests include applied work related to population dynamics, conservation biology, and spatial ecology in relation to behavior of different species; current research focuses on behavioral state resource selection and home range-shape and size determinants in wild pigs
Lab: Dharmarajan and Rhodes
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Passionate about wildlife conservation and education; current research focuses on a collaborative project with the USDA estimating raccoon densities with camera traps
Lab: Capps
Odum School of Ecology
Studying how intermittency shapes aquatic communities and food web dynamics of secondary consumer fishes in streams
Lab: Aubrey
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interests include disturbance ecology, ecophysiology or the physiology of trees, and forest restoration; research will focus on the relationship between canopy complexity and physiological function with ecosystem resilience within old-growth long-leaf pine ecosystems
Lab: Parrott
Odum School of Ecology
Research focuses on the impacts of environmental contamination and temperature on amphibian sex ratios with implications for long-term population viability; research interests include wildlife conservation, behavioral ecology, and herpetology
Lab: Parrott
Odum School of Ecology
Research focuses on assessing contaminant loads in alligator tail muscle and the degree to which alligators travel onto and off of the Savannah River Site to investigate exposure concerns associated with the public harvest and consumption of alligators in the region
Lab: Abrams
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests in environmental policy and governance; currently investigating how environmental research and environmental policy influence one another
Lab: Martin
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Investigating gopher tortoise ecology in pine production forests of the Southeastern United States
Lab: Lance
Odum School of Ecology
Research investigates carryover effects and habitat impacts in at-risk amphibians to help improve headstarting and habitat management strategies; research interests include conservation ecology, behavioral ecology, wetland ecology, ecotoxicology, and herpetology
Lab: Lance
Odum School of Ecology
Interested in conservation, herpetology, ecotoxicology, wetland ecology, and disease ecology; research focuses on factors that influence amphibian community dynamics in the Southeast
Lab: Xu
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Investigating how seasonally linked cycles of sulfur redox chemistry affect the sequestration of heavy metals within emergent plants, known as macrophites, and sediments in two constructed wetlands
Lab: Travis DeVault
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interested in behavioral ecology, wildlife conservation, and human-wildlife interactions; research investigates the behavior of deer and wild pigs to help reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions
Labs: Tuberville and Abrams
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research assesses the effects of age, size, and stress on post-release fidelity and survival of head-started gopher tortoises
Lab: Martin
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Conservation management, declining species, and movement ecology; research will focus on translocated northern bobwhite from private to public land (Apalachicola National Forest) and assess movement, habitat use and site fidelity
Lab: Abrams
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interested in sustainable development and conservation management; currently interning in the Office of Sustainability as the Chew Crew intern and working on ecological restoration with prescribed grazing
Lab: Parrott
Odum School of Ecology
From the level of DNA to cells to whole organisms, research is focused on the impact the environment has on embryonic development; studying alligators to determine the consequences of environmental contaminants on embryonic gonadal development and the epigenome to understand how these translate into later life stages and overall health; interests include general ecology, physiology, and behavior of reptiles and amphibians
Lab: Lance
Odum School of Ecology
Studying wetland restoration techniques to improve wetland plant communities for at-risk amphibians; investigating head-starting practices to increase juvenile survival in Carolina gopher frogs; interested in restoration ecology, herpetology, wetland plant communities, and disturbance ecology
Lab: Aubrey
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests include forestry, ecology and prescribed fire management; research will focus on energy dose thresholds for tree stem mortality
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Using genetics and genomics to investigate the social structure and mating strategies of wild pigs
Labs: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interested in conservation and management of game species, human-wildlife conflicts, and the effects of invasive species; currently studying the impacts of wild pigs on row crop agriculture and the surrounding native ecosystem
Research is focused on the ecotoxicology and diet of American alligators in the southeast; research interests include their reproductive behavior, genetics, and spatial ecology