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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research focuses primarily on the effects of tourism pressure on African mammal behavior, movement, and spatial ecology; investigating African carnivore diets to understand how predators may be interacting with livestock and the broader landscape in areas of high human-carnivore conflict; interests include conservation biology, species interactions, human-wildlife conflict, and the effects of anthropogenic activities on ecosystem health and wildlife behavior
Lab: Parrott
Odum School of Ecology
Research focuses on how an organism’s environment and epigenome interact to produce different phenotypes, especially those associated with development and aging trajectories; interests include evolution, genomics, ecotoxicology, and integrative approaches to biology
Lab: Xu and Hazelton
Interdisciplinary Toxicology
Research uses molecular methods to evaluate the effects of environmental contamination on soil bacterial assemblages; interests include ecotoxicology, ecological genetics, community ecology, and restoration ecology
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interested in the spatial and radioecology of wild boar in and around the Fukushima Exclusion Zone
Lab: Bier and Capps
Odum School of Ecology
Research will identify and evaluate pollution-sensitive aquatic macroinvertebrate communities distributed across five major stream systems on the Savannah River Site; research interests are conservation of freshwater ecosystems, land use, sustainable development, and climate change
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research focuses on the movement ecology of wild pigs to understand their response to different baits and lures; interests include wildlife management and conservation, human-wildlife interactions, spatial ecology, and wildlife disease
Lab: Tuberville and Rhodes
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
Conducting research on the environmental impacts of wild pigs with a focus on using molecular methods to determine wild pig food habits; interests include wildlife conservation and management, behavioral ecology, and human-wildlife conflict
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: Capps
Odum School of Ecology
Studying how intermittency shapes aquatic communities and food web dynamics of secondary consumer fishes in streams
Lab: DeVault and Martin
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research investigates the behavior and perception of ducks in response to approaching vehicles to help reduce collisions with aircraft
Lab: Tuberville and Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests include conservation of threatened and endangered species, human-wildlife conflict, and habitat management; research will compare biological communities in historically contaminated sites to reference sites within SRS to inform future remediation efforts
Lab: Xu and Bringolf
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interested in ecotoxicology, biogeochemistry, and environmental remediation; current research investigates the utilization of biochar, a form of charcoal, for remediation of mercury from contaminated soil
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: Bier and Lance
Odum School of Ecology
Interested in the influence of land management practices on terrestrial and aquatic microbial structures and nutrient processing
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: Tuberville and Rushing
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interests include practical conservation strategies for endangered and threatened species, wetland and landscape ecology and public education; research will focus on the effectiveness of head-starting in Mojave desert tortoises as a mitigation tool to increase juvenile survival
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: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Current research focuses on the effects of human settlements, conservation fencing, and livestock in regard to African carnivore movement and occupancy; research interests include carnivore behavioral ecology, human-wildlife conflict, and urban wildlife ecology.
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
Lab: Xu and Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interested in ecotoxicology, community ecology, and conservation; research will focus on the impacts of radiocaesium and mercury on aquatic communities and the efficacy of remedial activities within the Savannah River Site
Lab: Tracey Tuberville and Kohl
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research interests include spatial and community ecology, species conservation, and wildlife management; currently researching movement, survival, and predation risks of post-release head-started Mojave desert tortoises
Lab: Tracey Tuberville and Kohl
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Interests include conservation, life history strategies, and factors influencing reproductive success of individuals; current research involves investigating translocations of formerly captive eastern box turtles into the wild and post-translocation reproductive success.
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: Lance and Capps
Odum School of Ecology
Interests include behavioral ecology, biodiversity and community ecology of fishes; research focuses on the effects of legacy contaminants on freshwater fish communities
Lab: Beasley
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research involves wild pig population dynamics and using game cameras to estimate wild pig populations; investigating various trap types for wild pigs and their individual efficacies; interests include wildlife-human conflict, invasive species, behavioral ecology, and the conservation and management of game species
Lab: Aubrey
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Research is focused on how consistent prescribed fire treatments given at various intervals affect a tree’s growth rate and the stand’s structure
Research is focused on the ecotoxicology and diet of American alligators in the southeast; research interests include their reproductive behavior, genetics, and spatial ecology