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ICPS receives grant from Coral Reef Conservation Program
James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science Director, Dr. Daniel Gleason has received 3 years of funding at $315,381 from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program for the project entitled: “Investigating how coral recruitment and juvenile survivorship varies along the Florida Reef Tract.” This is a collaboration between Rob Ruzicka (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation […]
Georgia Southern scientists map Wassaw Sound
A research team from the Georgia Southern University Applied Coastal Research Laboratory (ACRL) has completed the first high-resolution, bathymetric (bottom-depth) survey of Wassaw Sound in Chatham County. Led by Georgia Southern ACRL director and geology professor Clark Alexander, the team produced a detailed picture of the bottom of Wassaw Sound, the Wilmington River and other […]
Biology Professor’s research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Dr. Tavis Anderson, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, recently had his research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Summary: Although it would seem logical that large numbers of roosting birds would attract more mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus and contract the disease when bitten, recent research has found […]
Math Faculty Launch Open Source Journal: TAG
Two faculty members in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Dr. Colton Magnant and Dr. Hua Wang, have launched a new open source journal called Theory and Application of Graphs (TAG). TAG is a fully-refereed, entirely online, open-access, completely free journal supported by Georgia Southern University through Digital Commons. TAG publishes high level research articles in Graph Theory […]
Biology Professor Invited to United Nations Meeting in Rome
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nation (UN) hosted the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition last week (September 18 – 19) at its headquarter in Rome, Italy. At this meeting, over 50 experts including academic professors, government officials, private sector, researcher and leaders of civil-society organizations made presentations from different […]