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Education

Conferences and Workshops
Environmental Practicum
Conservation Biology:
ECOL 3530
Principles of Conservation Ecology & Sustainable Development: ECOL 6080
Transboundary Water Management: ECOL 8990/3480
Global Change: ECOL 4120H
Comparative Biodiversity & Conservation Law: Costa Rica & US (external link)
Environmental Law for Scientists
Land Use Law Clinic (external link)
Resources for K-12 Teachers & Students
EcoReach (external link)
Summit to the Sea
Watershed Connections
Working with Watersheds

education

The River Basin Center provides educational programs and resources at the university, K-12, and continuing adult education levels.

Service Learning
Many of our Masters of Conservation Ecology students have adopted service projects as their thesis focus. Some examples include developing scientific and policy guidelines for riparian buffers, confined animal feeding operations, and hillside protection. The Altamaha, Etowah, Satilla, and Upper Altamaha Environmental Practicum courses provide graduate students in ecology, environmental design, forestry, and law with the opportunity to work with stakeholders in these river basins to develop policies to protect the river system and associated natural resources. Environmental Law for Scientists and the Land Use Law Clinic offer students the opportunity to learn while helping stakeholders solve real legal problems.

Continuing Education
The Center organizes conferences and workshops, and provides continuing education services for a variety of institutions and organizations. Some examples include:

  • Organizing the biennial three-day Georgia Water Resources Conference which attracts more than 500 environmental professionals, faculty, students and environmentalists.
  • Supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in developing a training program for water quality engineers.
  • Assisting in the planning of the University’s annual Red Clay (environmental law) Conference. More than 200 participants, including attorneys, faculty, students and environmentalists, attend this conference– which also provides legal education credits.
  • Technical training via distance learning.
  • Serving as faculty on numerous continuing education programs of various professional organizations (attorneys, appraisers, local government officials, etc.)

K-12 Educational Support
Educational support is accomplished through a number of collaborative efforts with public school systems. Examples include the partner-in-education program, Eco-Reach programs in local schools (six-county area), partnerships to improve science education, and collaboration with the State Botanical Garden of Georgia for special programs and teacher training. Summit to the Sea, in partnership with the Marine Sciences program, and Watershed Connections, which grew out of a service learning project by students in the Environmental Practicum, also provide K-12 educational materials for students and teachers. Working with Watersheds, a Georgia Performance Standards-based science curriculum for 7th grade middle schoolers, was created by graduate students in the Upper Altamaha Practicum. EcoReach is an organization at the Odum School of Ecology that connects graduate, undergraduate, and professional ecologists at the University of Georgia with school-age children in order to heighten awareness of the science of ecology and environmental issues.

 

Visit Our Partners:
Alliance for Quality Growth Alliance for Quality Growth
Center for Community Design and Preservation Center for Community Design & Preservation
Georgia Museum of Natural history Georgia Museum of Natural History
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University of Georgia -  Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology
 

 
UGA River Basin Center
110 Riverbend Road, Room 101
Athens, GA 30602-1510 USA
Phone: (706) 583-0463
Fax: (706) 583-0612

C. Ronald Carroll, Co-Director for Science - rcarroll@uga.edu
Laurie Fowler, Co-Director for Policy - lfowler@uga.edu

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For questions or comments about this web site email: bethgav@uga.edu

 
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