Tags: Invasive Species

Sarah McNair is a research and outreach technician working with Dr. Jay Shelton and Wesley Gerrin at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. She has two years of professional experience within Warnell, in addition to a master of natural resources degree.  Her primary research interest is aquatic nuisance species, with emphasis on how those species are distributed across the landscape and how they interact…

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…

Chuck is the Director of the Center for Invasive Species & Ecosystem Health and has a Public Service Faculty appointment in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia.  Chuck has been with the University of Georgia since 1999, where his work focuses on invasive species and information technology.  Websites he designed have been featured twice in Science Magazine, received regional awards for…

Dr. John Maerz is Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor and Professor of Vertebrate Ecology in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and Adjunct Professor in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia.  He is an affiliated faculty with the Center for Integrative Conservation’s ICON Program and the Animal Behavior Integrative Life Sciences Group. Dr. Maerz joined the…

Dissertation title: Shortleaf Pine-Hardwood Mixture Establishment and Release in Two Physiographic Regions of Tennessee

Career: USGS, Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, 2011-present USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 2001-2011 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1994-1997 National Biological Service, 1992-1994 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 1986-1992