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School of Natural Resources and Environment

2024 SNRE Research Symposium

October 15, 2024 | 8:00am - 5:00pm

J. Wayne Reitz Union Grand Ballroom

The University of Florida’s (UF) School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), through its interdisciplinary educational programs, is designed to prepare tomorrow’s scientists to understand the complex issues related to environment and socio-economic stability in Florida, the nation, and the world. To do this, SNRE operates horizontally across UF's elaborate structure of academic disciplines. The SNRE is built on existing strengths in the University by encouraging departments or other organizational units of the University to participate in the activities of the SNRE. Recognizing the high level of expertise in environmental and natural resource matters already present in many basic and applied discipline-centered departments and other organizational units of UF, SNRE engages faculty from a variety of the University's disciplines, as the affiliate faculty of SNRE. Currently, SNRE hosts 300+ affiliate faculty representing 50+ departments and 20+ research centers and institutes of 12 colleges of UF. SNRE is now home for 120+ graduate students in Interdisciplinary Ecology and 200+ undergraduate students in Environmental Sciences.

The objectives of the 2024 SNRE Research Symposium: 1) provide graduate and undergraduate students a framework to showcase their interdisciplinary research in ecology, environment, and sustainability, and 2) enhance the interaction among students and faculty with participants from state and federal agencies, and private consulting firms and industry.

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Keynote Speaker

Dr. Sonia Altizer, Martha Odum Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia

Dr. Sonia Altizer

Martha Odum Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Odum School of Ecology,
University of Georgia

Dr. Sonia Altizer is the Martha Odum Distinguished Professor of Ecology in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, where she served as Interim dean from 2021-23, and the Director of Public Service and Outreach for the School. She received her B.S. in biology from Duke University and Ph.D in ecology from the University of Minnesota, followed by postdoctoral work at Princeton and Cornell University. Her research interests center on animal behavior, environmental change, and pathogen transmission. For the past 30 years, she has studied monarch butterflies and a debilitating disease that infects them, to better understand how animal migration affects the spread of pathogens, and to investigate how migrations are changing in response to environmental change. In 2020, Dr. Altizer was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her email address is saltizer@uga.edu. 

 

 

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