The Aquatic Sciences Lab wishes you a Happy New Year and an exciting 2026! We’ve stayed busy this fall and winter, and the coming months are poised to be just as busy with new projects, graduate students diving into field work, new RaMP fellows, conferences to attend, and events in SW Georgia Lab welcomes post-doc, Savanna Wooten Savanna Wooten, Ph.D., began work at the Center as a post-doctoral associate in December, co-advised by our lab, Ecohydrology, and Silviculture. Savanna recently defended her dissertation at Auburn University with Dr. Matt Waters, investigating urban lake sediments from a paleolimnological perspective. Her work at the Center will explore carbon dynamics across wetland-to-upland gradients and characterize carbon storage across the landscape. Learn more about Savanna here.  Fall Snail Surveying The lab spent much of the low-flow season this fall searching for freshwater snails in Ichawaynochaway Creek. We developed a survey technique for shoals in