Featured Researcher: Dr. Jesse Abrams

Featured Researcher: Dr. Jesse Abrams

Jesse Abrams is an Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Policy and Sustainability in a joint appointment between the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. Jesse joined the UGA faculty in 2018 after five years...

Featured Researcher: Dr. Julie Velásquez Runk

Trained as both an ecologist and an anthropologist and retaught by indigenous Wounaan villagers and scholars, Julie has just over thirty years doing interdisciplinary community-based research and collaborative ethnography. She works with communities to ask how to...
Dr. John Maerz: Helping turtles find their balance

Dr. John Maerz: Helping turtles find their balance

Written by Kristen Morales, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources The idea began to take shape in CICR faculty affiliate John Maerz’s Animal Behavior class. Lizzy Ashley, an undergraduate Honors student majoring in ecology and biology, was looking for...