Conservation scientist & naturalist | Asst. Professor @UGAEcology | 🎙Co-host/producer @nature_guys | @FulbrightPrgrm alum |🦆#ornithology💧#freshwater | He/Him
Muskogee-Creek Lands - Georgia
Joined February 2016
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Charles B. van Rees retweeted
🚨Postdoc Alert🚨I'm recruiting a postdoc w/ expertise in analysis of large biodiversity and environmental datasets & #conservation decision-making tools. Lots of opportunities to take part in impactful conservation research. Read more below! (Please RT)
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Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Excited to share that my first children's book, "The River of Life" was published earlier this month!
If you'd like to purchase your own copy, you can do so here:
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#NewBook #Authorship #Childrensbooks #Reading #NatureConservation #Nature
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Check out our 🚨New Paper🚨 in Biological Conservation! A team of conservation scientists from academia, government, non-profit, & corporate sectors designed this set of best practices and risks for biodiversity accounting. Check it out & please share!
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Charles B. van Rees retweeted
🚨New Paper!!🚨 My colleague and I did a deep-dive into disciplinary siloes around research & practice in water resources management & biodiversity conservation to encourage problem-solving for 21st century problems. Check it out & please share!
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Charles B. van Rees retweeted
New post in my nature blog, Gulo in Nature: biologist-verified spider facts! Come learn about spiders that lasso moths & about a spider named after collectible toy cars 👀🚗🕷️🕸️
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#blog #nature #spiders #arachnology #newpost
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Blog Update: By reader request, I'm starting a Newsletter for Gulo in Nature next week! Subscribe for biweekly field notes, nature facts and photos, book recommendations, & more. Please share & RT!
#NatureFacts #Blog #outdoors
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Charles B. van Rees retweeted
The latest from Gulo in Nature: insects that are great friends to your garden. This post will introduce you to six "usual suspects" of the best pest-devouring critters you'll want to have stick around.
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#Blog #Wildlife #insects #nature
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
2026 Smith Fellowship applications are open! I'd love to chat with potential postdocs about projects on freshwater biodiversity, Nature-based Solutions, & wetland conservation. Reach out if the Wildlife & Water Lab at @UGAEcology is up your alley!
smithfellows.org/join-us
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
You see a few of these giant sonsabitches and it makes you realize how terrifying the Carboniferous must have been
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Happy Holidays from all of us at Hawaiʻi Audubon Society! Warmest aloha to you all and best wishes for a birdy New Year 🐦🥂🎉
#HappyHolidays #NewYear #Christmas #Holidays #Birds
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
We felt this was an important paper to write. We hope it starts a conversation and helps improve & build the evidence base for #ecoengineering. Please tell us if you think its happening- @benthicecol @AllyAllyj @ProfRThompson @suyinchee @koshaughnessy33
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Last week, I successfully defended my Ph.D. research proposal titled “Understanding Waterbird Habitat Relations within Antebellum Rice Fields Using Drones and Autonomous Recording Units in Coastal South Carolina, USA.”
Excited about the journey ahead!
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Is it spooky season and you still haven’t decided what your costume will be? Let yourself be inspired by these beautiful birds 🐦
Discover more about these birds in our book, “Hawaiʻi’s Birds”, for sale at hiaudubon.org/shop/
Photo credits: S. Scott, C. Vanderlip
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
We're back with more ecosystem engineers, and this time we're heading underwater!
Check out more of the skilled species that work hard to shape their habitats here: n-ewn.org/nature-at-work-eco…
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
30% of non-native English speakers often decide not to attend an international conference due to #languagebarriers. @ICCB2025 we are seriously trying to reduce language barriers as much as possible. See our initiatives here: conbio.org/mini-sites/iccb-2…
Our initiatives include:
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Trending in #WaterResources:
ooir.org/index.php?field=Env…
1) Glyphosate contamination in European rivers not from herbicide application? (@WaterRes_J)
2) Quantifying urban flood extent using satellite imagery
3) A new flow path: eDNA connecting hydrology & biology
4a) Nitrogen biogeochemical cycling in mangrove wetland & metagenomic sequencing
4b) Levee setback benefits for riverine nature‐based solutions
Charles B. van Rees retweeted
Congrats to first author and new Ecology assistant professor @GuloThoughts!
Levee setbacks have a lot of potential co-benefits. How can we maximize them?
A new paper reviews the myriad of benefits that have been associated with an increasingly popular nature-based solution: levee setbacks. Read it here: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
