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Rachel Arney

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Graduate Student

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Geography-Geology Building, Room 120S
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Research Interests:

Rachel is broadly interested in the production of ecological knowledge in politically charged spaces. Specifically, she studies how conservation agencies in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands produce science that reifies the colonial state and how these agencies can create more emancipatory ecologies. 

CV:

Rachel is a PhD student in the Integrative Conservation and Geography programs at UGA. She is  interested in political ecology, critical physical geography, science and technology studies, and anti-colonial environmental governance. 

Education:

M.S., Biology, University of Texas-Brownsville, 2014

B.A., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2010

 

Grants:

2023                Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers Graduate Student Mini-Research Grant ($500)

2022                American Association of Geographers Student Travel Grant ($500)

2022 – 2023     George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship ($2,000), University of Georgia Graduate School

2022                Summer Research Grant ($1,337), University of Georgia Graduate School

2022                Field Study Award ($750), Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers

2022                AGILE Scientist Award ($250), University of Georgia Integrative Conservation Program

2021                Graduate Student Research Award ($250), Graduate Student Affinity Group of the American Association of Geographers

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Selected Publications:

Arney, R.N., Henderson, M.B., DeLoach, H., Lichtenstein, G., & German, L.A. Connecting across difference in environmental governance: Beyond rights, recognition and participation, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

Arney, R. N., Shepherd, A. K., Alexander, H. D., & Rahman, A. F. (2020). Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Storage in Natural and Prop-Scarred Thalassia Testudinum Seagrass Meadows. Estuaries and Coasts, 1-11.

Arney, R. N., Froehlich, C. Y., & Kline, R. J. (2017). Recruitment patterns of juvenile fish at an artificial reef area in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine and Coastal Fisheries9(1), 79-92.

Articles Featuring Rachel Arney
Tuesday, November 23, 2021 - 3:34pm

From past October 25th to November 3rd, the Honor students from GEOG 2250H: Resources, Society, and the Environment experienced the innovated flipped classroom approach when they engaged in Reacting To The Past (RTTP) to simulate the events at Copenhagen, for…

Major Professor

Jennifer L. Rice

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Committee Members

Steve Holloway

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Amy Trauger

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External Committee

Laura A. German
Jesse Abrams

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