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Rosemond retires following three decades at UGA
Dr. Amy Rosemond officially retired as a professor at the Odum School of Ecology on July 1, and she has since been granted emeritus status. Throughout her career, she studied the effects of land use and climate change on the health of streams, uncovering important lessons about how excess nutrients and other pollutants harm natural ecosystems. A UGA Foundation…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: From Restaurant to Reef
This month on the Resilient Futures Podcast, we’re welcoming the team from Shell to Shore, an Athens-based oyster shell recycling initiative that works with restaurants across the state of Georgia to rebuild shorelines. Oysters-the same kind you slurp down as an appetizer at that restaurant downtown-have incredible potential for fighting sea level rise. In the wild, oysters build reefs together,…
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Saving Little Jetties: Shoreline Stabilization at a Major Naval Station
Situated between the city of Jacksonville, Florida, the mouth of the St. John’s River, and the Atlantic Ocean is the busy harbor of Naval Station Mayport. NS Mayport is one of the largest U.S. Navy bases in the Southeast. The Base neighbors the historic working waterfront community of Mayport Village, a lesser-known corner of the City of Jacksonville. Helen Cooper…
