A film crew from National Geographic spent three weeks in June 2009 at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology shooting video footage for “Great Migrations: Born to Move,” which will air on National Geographic Channel Sunday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.It features the life cycle and migration of monarch butterflies, and includes scenes filmed at the Odum School with help from ecology faculty, students and staff.
Professor Gary W. Barrett, who holds the Odum Chair in Ecology, helped the film crew capture scenes showing predation of monarchs by mice and arranged for video footage to be shot at UGA’s HorseShoe Bend Ecology Experimental Research Site.
Associate Professor Sonia Altizer’s students and laboratory staff assisted with sequences of the monarch life cycle. “People in my lab guided the photographers and assistants and provided materials to them to film monarch eggs, larvae, pupation, adults laying eggs, praying mantis eating monarchs, and more,” said Altizer, an expert on monarch butterflies.She has conducted substantial research on the variation among monarch butterflies across their worldwide range, and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of their long-distance migration, particularly as it relates to host-parasite interactions. Her study of the relationship between migration distance and monarch butterfly wing shape, co-authored with Andy Davis, assistant research scientist in the Odum School, was published in the journal Evolution in Feb. 2010.
Monarch butterflies that breed in the eastern U.S. migrate to central Mexico each fall. The video footage shot in the ecology building and at HorseShoe Bend will appear in the first episode of the series, along with footage shot in Mexico.
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Four UGA Students Win National Geographic Internships
Four University of Georgia students in the department of geography have won internships with National Geographic out of only 11 awarded nationally.
Jason Gruba of Martinez and Jesse Oakley of Gainesville won internships to the National Geographic Educational Program. Laura Jones of Athens won an internship to the international edition of National Geographic Magazine. And Cassie Mertzlufft, also of Athens, won an internship to the National Geographic Book Division.
“I think having four UGA interns out of 11 nationally is a real indication of how well prepared UGA geography students are for work at National Geographic,” said George Brook, Merle C. Prunty Jr. Professor, head of the geography department and director of the UGA Luminescence Dating Laboratory. The geography department is in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
The geography internship program, directed by Robert E. Dulli, deputy to the chairman, is designed for geography and cartography majors at U.S. colleges and universities who are currently in their junior or senior year of academic work, as well as master’s degree students.
The purpose of the program is to furnish students a professional learning experience through participation in various projects aimed at the diffusion of geographic knowledge. Information about this program, which presently accommodates eight to eleven students for each academic term, is sent to heads of geography departments at colleges and universities throughout the United States in late August. The deadline for application materials, for all periods, is in early October for the following year.
“It is also a reflection of the excellent education they have received in the Franklin College and at UGA in general,” said Brook. “Over the course of my career I have seen the caliber of students in geography and at UGA improve year by year, and I think National Geographic is aware of this. One final point is that students in geography are well trained in Geographic Information Science as well as in their main area of interest, making them very useful for a variety of tasks at National Geographic.”
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Jason Gruba of Martinez and Jesse Oakley of Gainesville won internships to the National Geographic Educational Program. Laura Jones of Athens won an internship to the international edition of National Geographic Magazine. And Cassie Mertzlufft, also of Athens, won an internship to the National Geographic Book Division.
“I think having four UGA interns out of 11 nationally is a real indication of how well prepared UGA geography students are for work at National Geographic,” said George Brook, Merle C. Prunty Jr. Professor, head of the geography department and director of the UGA Luminescence Dating Laboratory. The geography department is in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
The geography internship program, directed by Robert E. Dulli, deputy to the chairman, is designed for geography and cartography majors at U.S. colleges and universities who are currently in their junior or senior year of academic work, as well as master’s degree students.
The purpose of the program is to furnish students a professional learning experience through participation in various projects aimed at the diffusion of geographic knowledge. Information about this program, which presently accommodates eight to eleven students for each academic term, is sent to heads of geography departments at colleges and universities throughout the United States in late August. The deadline for application materials, for all periods, is in early October for the following year.
“It is also a reflection of the excellent education they have received in the Franklin College and at UGA in general,” said Brook. “Over the course of my career I have seen the caliber of students in geography and at UGA improve year by year, and I think National Geographic is aware of this. One final point is that students in geography are well trained in Geographic Information Science as well as in their main area of interest, making them very useful for a variety of tasks at National Geographic.”
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