Holiday Cleanup
Join us for a holiday cleanup this Friday, November 15th, from 2-3PM! We will be cleaning Tanyard Branch Creek by College Station Apartments. Please meet us in front of Herty Hall wearing something that you are not afraid to get dirty. We will provide the trash picker-uppers and gloves as well as trash bags. Can't wait to see everyone there!
Congratulations to members of the Weese Lab!
Daquille Peppers, Caroline Fowler, and Jordan Yacoub all from Dr. Weese's Marine Lab recently collaborated on a paper. The paper, titled "Francisella orientalis detected in feral tilapia populations in Hawai’i" is currently in press and will hopefully soon be published in the Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. This project was done during Peppers' master's program and both Fowler and Yacoub helped during their undergraduate research.
Water eDUCATION dAY 2024
We love getting to share our ideas with the community and Bobcat families who come to town for Deep Roots and we love even more getting to work with our partner, GCSU's Academic Outreach. Thank you to everyone, both students and the community, for making this event such a huge success. See you for the same time next year!
Fall Symposium
Thank you to all of our students who participated in our latest Aquatic Sciences Center Symposium. It was a huge success and are already looking forward to the next research event so be keeping an eye out for it! It is always super exciting to see students' hard work pay off with their research.
Fall Creek Cleanup
Another successful cleanup for our group! We were able to clean up quite a bit of the stream and have officially adopted this stream through Georgia's Adopt-A-Stream program with help from GCSU's Academic Outreach. Thank you to everyone who came out to the cleanup and we hope to see you at future events!
Water week!!
Please join us and GCSU's Academic Outreach in a week full of water! We are so exciting to be partnering with AO and sharing our passion for water and aquatics. We have multiple events planned for the week so please sign up below!
Clean up
Movie Night
Research Symposium
Water Education Day
Water education day
After a successful water education day last year, we will again be partnering with GCSU's Academic Outreach for another day of water! Join us Saturday, October 19th, from 12-3PM in front of the Kenneth S. Saladin Integrated Science Complex where there will be multiple student tables demonstrating various water activities. This event is open to the University and people of the Milledgeville community and hope that you will join us! Please RSVP using the QR code or here.
Research symposium
The Aquatic Sciences Center is hosting another symposium! The symposium will be in collaboration with GCSU's Academic Outreach, Phi Kappa Phi and GCSU Sustainability Council and take place outside of the Kenneth S. Saladin Integrated Science Complex from 3 to 5 PM on Friday, October 18th. We will be in the atrium of the complex as well as outside, weather permitting. Please RSVP here or with the QR code!
Water Week movie
Join us for our first Aquatic Sciences Center movie night! We will meet and watch a fun and exciting movie related to water. The movie will be picked out closer to the event and location will be decided and posted later as well. We look forward to hanging out with you! Please RSVP using the QR code or the link here.
Tanyard branch creek cleanup
It is time for our semi-annual Tanyard Branch Creek Cleanup! Join us as we start off Water Education Week October 16th from 3-5PM. We will meet at Herty Hall just before 3PM and walk down to Tanyard Branch Creek by College Station Apartments. Please wear clothes that you do not mind getting wet or muddy. We look forward to seeing you all there! Sign up here!
Member Presented at National Meeting
Anna Agi, president of the Aquatic Sciences Club, presented at the North American Diatom Symposium (NADS) from October 2nd-6th, 2024 at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. She is a graduate student under the advisement of Dr. Kalina Manoylov. She gave a poster presentation with the title "Using species-level identification of diatoms to assess hydrologically variable aquifers." She also won a student travel award and the NADS Scum Run with her teammates.
Our club members at the Geological Society of America
Our club members, Tori Morgan, Muzila Nchimunya and Lauren Ballenger all recently presented at The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting located in Anaheim, California. Both Tori Morgan and Muzila Nchimunya presented a poster in the Environmental and Engineering Geology Division with their project "Contrasting Tithonia rotundifolia and Lantana camara regarding carbon sequestration and phytoremediation in Pb and Cu soils." Lauren Ballenger gave an oral presentation in the Environmental Geochemistry and Health Division with her project titled "Climate change driven groundwater salinization and tree mortality." All three members have been mentored by Dr. Samuel Mutiti. Tori Morgan also won a student travel award.
Congratulations to our latest summer fellow!
Congratulations to Abigail Dugger from Dr. Kristine White's lab for completing the Aquatic Sciences Center Summer Fellowship. Her research focus is on amphipods.