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The Wildlife & Water Lab @UGA

Welcome to the Wildlife & Water Lab’s Website. Here you can learn about lab members and their affiliations, past, current, and upcoming research at the lab, and how to get in touch if you’re interested in our work.

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New Paper: Guideposts and guardrails for biodiversity accounting

Nov 15, 2025

Businesses, governments, and non profits are all turning an eye toward biodiversity credit markets as a way to keep tabs of conservation gains, mitigate damages, and enhance corporate responsibility. But biodiversity is a lot more complicated than carbon, so special…

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New Paper: Translational Water Research in Conservation

Sep 18, 2025

You can find Wildlife & Water Lab’s newest paper, published in Water Resources Research, at this link. This synthesis explores how water research can directly contribute to solving the global biodiversity crisis by aligning key disciplines at the interface of…

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First WWL Social of Semester: Watson Mill Bridge

Sep 16, 2025

WWL members and collaborators gathered this month at Watson Mill Bridge State Park in Georgia to unwind while enjoying gorgeous weather and creek biodiversity. We captured dozens of exciting critters from dragonfly nymphs and water striders to treefrog and salamander…

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Aurora Fowler leads research studying amphibians in Missouri River Floodplains

Aug 16, 2025

Over the summer, Aurora conducted fieldwork collecting data on the response of native species of anurans to a nature-based solution, levee setbacks. Aurora spent two months capturing tadpoles, predatory fish, and aquatic invertebrates to understand the wildlife conservation benefits of floodplain…

Aurora Fowler wins graduate research grant from Odum School of Ecology

May 7, 2025

Aurora Fowler, MS student in the WWL, received an Odum School of Ecology Large Grant in support of her thesis work on the amphibian biodiversity of levee setbacks. Congratulations Aurora!