Check out this new paper from our Postdoc Dr. Shelby Ziegler!

Back living that #marshlife.

This is exciting news about the North Atlantic right whale! #DYK the north atlantic right whale is the official state marine mammal of Georgia!

Check out this awesome feature with @LinseyHaram from Science Friday on ocean plastic pollution! #marineecology #plasticpollution #scicomm

Earlier this week lab members @Jeff_Beauvais and Dr. Shelby Ziegler were down at the coast prepping the boat for field season. Our lab will be doing a ton of field work this year sampling oyster reefs all over the state. Who else is ready for summer?

Successful first oyster sampling day for my postdoc research with Byers Ecology Lab. We will be sampling across the entire state of Georgia to assess oyster reef quality and disease. 3 reefs down, 21 to go.

We are so excited to announce that PhD Candidate @Jeff_Beauvais was selected as a 2023 #Knauss fellow! He will be heading to DC in February to work with a federal agency on marine policy. Congrats Jeff! Odum School of Ecology (no longer monitored) Integrative Conservation PhD Program

Join us Tomorrow (Aug 30) for Shelby Ziegler’s (Dr. Shelby Ziegler) seminar: "Environmental drivers of community structure, food web dynamics, and disease across coastal seascapes." Byers Ecology Lab

New paper out in #BiologicalReviews exploring interactions between invasive species and hypoxia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Shout outs to Paul Gribben Julie Blaze H. Hall and A. Dodd

Byers lab undergrads represented at the Odum School of Ecology (no longer monitored) GSS poster session last night: 1. Carter- parasites on freshwater snail consumption 2. Kate - body traits & filtration by oysters 3. Elianna - shrimp black gill disease 4. Will - oysters parasite on predator-prey interactions

Congratulations to Kate Moore for winning best undergraduate poster presentation at the UGA Odum School of Ecology Graduate Student Symposium! Kate's work focuses on how morphological and physiological traits of oysters influence filtration capacity. 🦪🎉 Byers Ecology Lab

Today both Kate Moore and Will E presented their senior thesis research at the UGACenter for Undergraduate Research Opportunities symposium. They did a fantastic job! So proud of all their hard work. Byers Ecology Lab

IN THE NEWS: Odum and Byers Ecology Lab alum Linsey Haram, PhD '18, is lead author of a new study revealing that dozens of species of coastal invertebrate organisms have survived and reproduced on plastic garbage that’s been floating in the ocean for years. cnn.it/3MSbZPe

Congrats to Will E and Kate Moore! They both won Odum School of Ecology (no longer monitored) undergraduate awards recognizing their outstanding research and/or service to the school. I am so so proud of them both and am lucky to be their research mentor. Byers Ecology Lab

Oysters impact water quality, and water quality impacts everyone, which is part of why Shelby Ziegler and Jeb Byers' ongoing oyster disease research is so important. Learn more about the project, conducted all along Georgia's coast: t.uga.edu/9g6.

So excited our NERR science collaborative was funded! We will be comparing the utility of ecological metrics to assess ecosystem function of oyster reefs across 4 reserves along the S. Atlantic Bight. nerrssciencecollaborative.org/resource/2023-…

So excited to finally see this paper out in Conservation Letters! We worked collaboratively w/ recreational anglers (CCFRP) to sample 12 MPAs over 6 years & found evidence to further support age and size matter for fish across a temperate reserve network. doi.org/10.1111/conl.1…

Congrats Elianna!!! We have the best undergrad researchers.

Congrats to Odum's Jeb Byers, named a 2024 Distinguished Research Professor! An internationally prominent scientist in population, community and marine ecology, he is known for quantifying and predicting the success of biological invasions. t.uga.edu/9Pt @ugaresearch

New paper out by Byers lab and Odum School of Ecology (no longer monitored) postdoc Dr. Shelby Ziegler!