Img 6680
20250618 091519
20250527 120330
Desoto wet 1
5727550485500323909
Cd15d760 3405 47fb Ac1e 7a245ff4ba20
Img 1369
Img 3232
Img 1789
Img 3907
Img 7901
Img 6419
Img 8366
Img 9360
Montana Lake
Santa Barbara Impoundment
Flood Plane
Mountain with Lake

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.

Interested in joining the Wildlife & Water lab?
Check out this page!

News

Processed E085C9E4 A17A 4C1C A20F 7C2D0EA06592

Dhruv Singh Presents Undergraduate Thesis Research on Nature-based Solutions

Apr 29, 2026

This week, Dhruv Singh, a long-time undergraduate researcher in the WWL, presented his undergraduate thesis work at the Odum School of Ecology. An Ecology major and media studies minor, Dhruv has been leading an exciting bibliometric study leveraging large language…

1 s2.0 S0006320725005646 gr1 lrg

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…

Fig1 8 20 25

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…

Img 5950

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…

Cover photo

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…