During Shelby Beck’s last semester as a UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) student, she completed an environmental policy internship. Through Florida Sea Grant and Loop Legislative Internship funding, Beck interned ... READ MORE
Category: Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Teaching,
Watching giant anteaters eat, sleep, play and give piggyback rides to their pups was part of this summer’s fieldwork for Ana Yoko Ykeuti Meiga, a PhD student in SNRE’s Interdisciplinary Ecology program. Ana accompanied a team of researchers ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Conservation, UF/IFAS Teaching, Wildlife
The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Nadeau Graduate Research Award, which supports graduate students pursuing their master’s or doctoral degrees in Interdisciplinary ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Natural Resources
The School of Natural Resources and Environment is pleased to announce that Tracy Moorman has joined its staff as the undergraduate academic advisor. Tracy comes to the University of Florida from Santa Fe College, where she worked as an ... READ MORE
Category: Academics
Since 2014, Florida's Coral Reef has been fighting an outbreak of a communicable, waterborne disease called stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). Just released, the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease & Response on Florida's Coral ... READ MORE
Category: Conservation, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Imagine spending a whole summer hiking epic American routes like the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail – and calling it research. That’s what PhD student Ernesto Viveiros de Castro did in the summer of 2022 as part of ... READ MORE
Category: Academics
Dr. Elizabeth Webb is an ecologist studying climate change in the Arctic, a longtime science educator, and an alumna of the SNRE’s PhD program in Interdisciplinary Ecology. She completed her PhD in spring 2022 and is now a postdoctoral ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Forests, UF/IFAS Research
During the spring 2022 semester, UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences student Austin Burton completed a legislative internship with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) as a legislative affairs intern ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Teaching
Invasive plants don’t just outcompete native plants but can also change animal behavior in ways that disadvantage native plants as well. Invasive cogongrass is a problem in longleaf pine ecosystems. A new study found that when cogongrass ... READ MORE
Category: Conservation, Forests, Invasive Species, Natural Resources, Wildlife
by Trista Brophy Doctoral Candidate in Interdisciplinary Ecology School of Natural Resources and Environment The National Atmospheric and Ocean Administration (NOAA) and the Earth Science Women’s Network (ESWN) hosted the two-day ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development