LAB NEWS

Upcoming...
    April Conway, PhD Student, will be defending her dissertation on May 28, 2013. All are welcome to watch her presentation on her Pygmy Hippo research!

May 2013
Albert Mercurio's proposal "Assessing Risks to Freshwater Turtles from Hydrilla and Stigonematales Invasions" has been selected to be funded for $19,372 through USFWS Aquatic Invasive Species Program.

 April 2013
Kristy Segal was Runner-up in the 2013 UGA Three Minute Thesis™ Competition, with her topic Amphibian Health in Rice Fields in Costa Rica!

March 2013

The 2013 Wildlife Disease Student Symposium, co-hosted and sponsored by the UGA Wildlife Disease Association and the UGA Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute One Health Division was held on March 6. In addition to a poster session, three students were selected to give oral presentations of their research.

Whitney Kistler, MS, PhD Student, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and SCWDS
Surveillance for various pathogens and lead in American Black Ducks (Anas rubripes) from the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States (View video of presentation) (Download pdf)

Jesse Thomas, MS Student, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and SCWDS
Surveillance for Lymphoproliferative Disease Virus (LPDV) in Hunter-Killed Eastern Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo)
(View video of presentation) (download pdf)

Jenn Ballard, DVM, PhD Student, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, and SCWDS
Investigation of Wellfleet Bay Virus Epidemiology in the American Common Eider (Somateria mollissima dresseri)
(View video of presentation) (download pdf)


February 2013
    Shannon Curry, MS Student, won 2nd place for her poster presentation at the Warnell Graduate Student Symposium and won 2nd place at the Southeastern Recreation Research Conference for another poster presentation.
    Shannon Curry was also awarded the Charles A. and Rose Lane Leavell scholarship through Warnell.

 

December 2012

Viviana published, “Comparative Seroprevalence against Leptospira interrogans in Colombian Mammals along a Climatic Gradient,” in the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. Viviana also received a travel award from the Wildlife Disease Association.
November 2012

Dr. Hernandez and Kerrie Anne Loyd's KittyCam project received widespread media attention in August and September. Visit the KittyCams website to read or view some of the feature stories!

April Conway was chosen to be a Fullbright Alumni Ambassador.


October 2012

Albert won the Phillip M. Fields Scholarship from the South Carolina Aquatic Plant Management Society.

Dr. Hernandez won the Presidential Award from the American College of Zoological Medicine for her contribution as the Chair of the Education Committee.


September 2012

Kerrie Anne published , “Public Perceptions of Domestic Cats and Preferences for Feral Cat Management in the Southeastern United States ,” in Anthrozoos.


April 2012

April won first place in the University's Three Minute Thesis Competition. (Video) on March 29! Kerrie Anne is the 2012 recipient of the Warnell School's E.L. Cheatum award.


February 2012

Scientific American published April's blog article about her experiences in Sierra Leone with Pygmy Hippos!


November 2011

Dr. Hernandez, Kerrie Anne, Shaun and April attended the 18th Annual Wildlife Society Conference this month. Both Shaun and Kerrie Anne made presentations about their graduate research.

April and her Fulbright experience are featured on the University of Georgia's Honors Program website!


August 2011

Chrissy attended the 60th Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association and presented a fabulous poster! 

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March 2011

Check out a recent feature on April Conway!

Congratulations to Albert Mercurio for earning second place in the proposal section at the Warnell Graduate Student Symposium this month!

We're also excited to share recent news that Viviana Gonzalez-Astudillo is the recipient of a Gerald B. and Charlotte Alexander Saunders Scholarship. The Warnell School Scholarship Committee chose her to receive this year's award. Congrats Viviana!


December 2010

Check out a recent news story for details on the Salmonella project! Accompanying photographs are from the first mesomammal and songbird sampling periods!


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August 2010

Dr. Hernandez and Dr. Erin Lipp (UGA Environmental Health Science) were just awarded funding from the National Institute of Health to determine environmental (water, wildlife) sources of non-foodborne salmonellaes in two river watersheds in Georgia. April Conway, Dr. Hernandez and Co-PI Dr. John Carroll recently received the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Grant for April’s telemetry study of Pygmy Hippos in Sierra Leone. The lab is preparing to begin research later this fall on both of these exciting new projects!


June 2010

Congratulations  to April Conway!!! April was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in mid- April 2010 for her doctoral research in Sierra Leone. April was also the recipient of a Warnell Scholarship for the 2010-2011 year. Way to go April!

Kerrie Anne Loyd received a Morris Animal Foundation Scholarship to begin the Kitty Cams project this summer. Kerrie Anne was also chosen to visit the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis to work on a feral cat population model with expert ecological modelers early this summer. This experience helped her finish a project she and her co-author aim to publish in Conservation Biology later this year!