Ichauway: Rainfall Wrapped 2024
Happy New Year from the Aquatic Sciences Lab! The lab celebrates our first-year anniversary this month and we are looking both backwards at a busy 2024 and forwards to an exciting 2025. We will be making our way to you at conferences and welcoming new lab members and graduate students (more to come soon!). As […]
Seed collection efforts expand
The Jones Center became an Institutional Partner of the Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) in 2024 and collaborated with CPC and the Florida Natural Areas Inventory to make our first-ever seed collections in Florida as part of the Florida Plant Rescue (FLPR) program. FLPR’s goal is “to secure and safeguard Florida’s rare plant species in […]
Side-Scan Sonar Training with USFWS
Last month we had the privilege of hosting Dr. Adam Kaeser and Jake Roush of the Panama City US Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office. Adam is currently the Gulf Sturgeon Recovery Lead for the Service but has roots here in the lower Flint River basin (LFRB) after starting his research career as a Fisheries Biologist […]
Wrapping a Busy Fall in the Aquatic Sciences Lab
The Aquatic Sciences Lab at the Jones Center is happily exhausted on this first proper cold day in SW GA! As we near the end of the lab’s first year, we have made lots of progress and collaborations to report on, many happening in the last few weeks. We have our first exchange of personnel […]
Recruiting: PhD Student, Fall 2025 @ UNC
We’re recruiting a PhD student! With Dr. Amanda DelVecchia at UNC-Chapel Hill, we are looking for a student to study methane dyanmics in the isolated wetlands at Ichauway. Projects will include (but not limited to): methanogenesis, methanotrophy, methane emissions, methane in food webs, and upscaling See more details on the Prospective Students page and Dr. […]
Diel Sampling for Nitrogen
Last week, we were thrilled to host Abagael Pruitt and Ryan Meyer, both PhD students in the Tank Lab at Notre Dame. Like the Jones Center, the Tank lab has research interest in streams and rivers embedded in agricultural landscapes and the interaction of land-use on water quality and biogeochemistry. In this visit, we focused […]
New methods in methane dynamics in isolated wetlands!
The week of October 14th, we thrilled to host Dr. Amanda DelVecchia, from the Department of Geography at UNC-Chapel Hill. In addition to delivering an excellent Lord of the Rings themed greenhouse gas dynamics seminar on Tuesday afternoon, we focused on developing new methods of measuring methane oxidation and methanogenesis from geographically isolated wetlands at […]
New Field Guide Links Local Geologic History to Water Resources
Produced in collaboration with Louisiana State University, “Field Guide to the Hydrogeology of Ichauway” uses easily observed land features as examples where geology and hydrology come together. As it turns out, the present situation in this region is founded on millions of years of history that shaped the landscape.
Plant Ecology lab makes Seeds of Success collections
The Plant Ecology lab, through funding from the Southeastern Grasslands Institute, has collected seeds from Conecuh National Forest in southern Alabama and Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia. These collections are part of Seeds of Success, a nationwide native seed collection program. The long-term goal of the Seeds of Success program is to support […]
Jones Center hosts rare plant workshop
The Jones Center recently hosted a workshop that brought together botanists from Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. The goal of the workshop was to develop a framework for an upcoming Species Status Assessment for ciliate-leaf tickseed. The species is globally rare and is being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. The status assessment […]