Warnell School to hold spring colloquium and graduate student symposium February 27-29

Halter is an award-winning conservation scientist, syndicated science writer, TV nature documentary host, professor of botany at Humboldt State University, California, and popular children's author. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia and is an expert on the topics of global warming, hurricanes, fire, weather phenomena, ecological disasters, conservation and forest biology and ecosystems. In the late 1980s, he founded Global Forest Science, a charitable international forest research organization. His latest book is Wild Weather: The Truth Behind Global Warming.

Halter’s colloquium lecture will be Wednesday, February 27 at 3:30pm in the Warnell auditorium (2-100). The lecture will be followed by a public reception in the School courtyard.

The two days following spring colloquium will feature the Warnell School’s 11^th annual Graduate Student Symposium. Graduate students of the School will give presentations about their research in the areas of fisheries conservation; forest business, management and biology; natural resources recreation and tourism; wildlife ecology and management; and water and soil science conservation.

Graduate student presentations will begin at 10:30am on Thursday, February 28 and 9:00am on Friday, February 29 in the room 1-304 of the Warnell School, and continue until 4:30pm on both days . For more information on presentation topics and times visit the Graduate Student Symposium website.

In addition to student presentations, the symposium also features a silent auction to raise money for the Warnell School’s Graduate Student Association. This year’s auction will feature dozens of items related to Georgia’s natural resources, and also items donated by local Athens area retail businesses. “This year we have many outstanding items to be auctioned-off thanks to the incredible generosity of Warnell School family members and many local businesses,” said Kate Spear, president of the Warnell School Graduate Student Association. “We are grateful to all who contributed items for this silent auction fundraiser as their contributions will allow us to provide graduate students with additional resources for research, and to travel to conferences to present their research.”