Tag: freshwater

  • Restoring Mannington Meadows: Wetland researchers take a field trip to New Jersey

    Restoring Mannington Meadows: Wetland researchers take a field trip to New Jersey

    Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources professor Rhett Jackson and Ducks Unlimited Natural Infrastructure Fellow Nicholas Austin joined representatives from Ducks Unlimited, USACE, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), USFWS, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Conserve Wildlife NJ, and NOAA on Monday, July 22 to discuss plans […]

  • UGA Today: People are altering decomposition rates in waterways

    UGA Today: People are altering decomposition rates in waterways

    Dr. Krista Capps was recently featured by UGA Today for her work exploring decomposition rates in rivers around the world. In a recent paper, Capps and collaborators at UGA, Oakland University and Kent State University collected field data from over 150 researchers in 40 countries, putting together an evaluation that included 550 rivers across the […]

  • Managing the ebb & flow of the I-85 corridor

    Managing the ebb & flow of the I-85 corridor

    The University of Georgia Office of Research recently featured research surrounding water quality and supply in the Interstate 85 corridor, a region that stretches from Alabama to Virginia and crosses two of the South’s largest urban centers, Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC. This work, a collaborative effort between the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) […]