Tags: Biology/Ecology


Spencer Womble

I am a quantitative ecologist for the Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit. I have extensive experience working with water quality and wetland biogeochemistry data. My past research has focused on using ecological monitoring data to inform management decisions. During my PhD at Tennessee Tech University, I evaluated the success of wetland habitat restoration to reduce nutrient export during flooding. I've also designed and built multiple…


Erika Klar

Erika Klar is from Hamilton, Georgia, who came to the University of Georgia as an undergraduate in 2016 and graduated from Warnell with a Bachelor’s of Forest Resources in Wildlife Science and a minor in Biology in May 2021. She started her undergraduate degree in the College of Agriculture as a pre-vet animal science major, but transferred to Warnell her senior year to pursue a wildlife science degree. Since she was little, she has always had a…


Jeff Cullen

Jeffrey Cullen is a PhD candidate in the Wilde Lab. Cullen completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in marine biology before working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Lodi, California, as a biological science technician on the Delta Juvenile Fish Monitoring Program. He earned his master’s degree at the University of Georgia while studying intraspecies interactions and their effects on the use of space…


Katy Callaghan

Katy Callaghan is a research professional in the Wilde Lab. Katy completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources with emphases in Fisheries and Wildlife, and Wildlife Management. During her time at Warnell, she held field technician positions at both the state and federal level. She specialized in trapping and lethal control of mesocarnivores and non-native wildlife…


Helen Bothwell

Dr. Bothwell’s research is motivated by a drive to contribute concrete, practical solutions for conservation genetic management of species facing rapid global change. She works at the intersection of population genetics, landscape ecology and spatial statistical modeling to investigate how ecological and evolutionary processes have shaped the distribution of species and genetic variation across the landscape. A key focus is building better…


Dr. Susan Wilde

Dr. Susan Wilde’s research and teaching is focused on impaired aquatic systems and challenges with invasive plants/animals, nutrient pollution, harmful algal blooms, emerging contaminants and their implications for fish, wildlife, and even humans depending on these valuable water resources. She discovered a new species of cyanobacteria growing on invasive aquatic plants producing the neurotoxin responsible for killing bald eagles and other…


Dr. Robert Bringolf


Dr. Peter D. Hazelton


Scott W. Oswald

Hometown: Augusta, Georgia


Dr. James Shelton


Dr. Cecil Jennings

Prior Positions: Research Fisheries Biologist - Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center, La Crosse, WI Fisheries Biologist - Virgin Islands Division of Fish and Wildlife, St. Thomas, VI  


Dr. Brian Irwin

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