Curriculum Vitae

Lissa M. Leege

Business Address: Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, P.O. Box 8042-1, Statesboro, GA 30460-8042

Business Phone: (912) 478-0800

E-mail address: leege@GeorgiaSouthern.edu

Fax: 912-478-0845

Education

1997 Ph.D. Michigan State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology

1990 Secondary Teacher's Certification. Westminster College of Salt Lake City

1988 B.A. in Biology with Departmental Distinction, St. Olaf College

Academic Positions

2010-present Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University

2008-2020 Director, Center for Sustainability, Georgia Southern University

2004-2010 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University

1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University

1999-2002 Faculty, University of Michigan Biological Station

1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Ohio State University

1992-1997 Teaching and Research Assistant, Michigan State University

Teaching Experience and Expertise

Courses taught at Georgia Southern University:

BIOL 1230 Environmental Biology

BIOL 2108 Principles of Biology II

BIOL 1108/2108L Principles of Biology II Laboratory (co-coordinator in 2008)

BIOL 3099S Global Sustainability (Montepulciano, Italy; Lucca, Italy)

BIOL 3099S Plants and Society (Montepulciano, Italy; Lucca, Italy)

BIOL 3113 Evolution and Ecology Laboratory

BIOL 3132 Biology of Organisms

BIOL 3112 Biology of Organisms Laboratory

BIOL 3355/5545 Biology of Plants

BIOL 5546 Plant Evolutionary Ecology

BIOL 5099 Interpretive Natural History

BIOL 7610 Induced Defense

BIOL 7610 Issues in Sustainability

BIOL 7890 Rare Plant Ecology

BIOL 7890 Ecology of Invasions

BIOL 7890 Seed Ecology

HONS 1333 Honors Inquiry in the Natural Sciences

Courses taught at University of Michigan Biological Station:

General Ecology

Courses taught at Ohio State University:

Experimental Field Ecology

General Ecology

People Plants and the Environment

Science and Society Seminar

Awards

2021 Inaugural University Award of Excellence in Sustainability

2019 Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award

2017 Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award

2013 Graduate of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership Class of 2013

2012 Keep Bulloch Beautiful, Golden Can of Service Award

2010 Who’s Who Among American Women

2009 North Carolina Botanical Garden Award for best paper at Annual Meeting of Association of Southeastern Biologists to advance understanding of biology and conservation of southeastern plants

2008 Sustainable Forestry Initiative Research Award for Baptisia research – International award given to Forestry partner

2008 Ogeechee Canoochee Riverkeeper Volunteer Award

2008 Who’s Who Among American Women

2006 Who’s Who Among American Women.

Georgia Southern University

2021 Meritorious Post Tenure Review

2017 Campus Recreation and Intramurals, Faculty Interaction Award

2016 Meritorious Post Tenure Review

2013 Parish Scholar, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University

2009-13 Faculty Fellow in Service-Learning, Georgia Southern University

2009 Meritorious Post-Tenure Review

2008 University Award for Excellence in Service

2008 College of Science and Technology Award for Excellence in Service

2007 Nominated for University Award for Excellence in Contributions to Instruction

2007 Recognized for publication of a book at Spring General Faculty meeting

2005 Faculty Showcase presenter at College of Science and Technology Dean’s Advisory Board Meeting

2005 Recognized for publication of a book at Spring General Faculty meeting

1999 Selected presenter: “Faculty Showcase; Course Enhancement via the World Wide Web,” Center for Excellence in Teaching

Michigan State University

1997 University Dissertation Completion Fellowship

1996 University Excellence-in-Teaching Citation

1995 College of Natural Science Excellence-in-Teaching Award

1994 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Fields Award for Excellence in Teaching

Westminster College of Salt Lake City

Faculty Entrance Scholarship

St. Olaf College

Phi Beta Kappa

Who’s Who Among American College Students

Senior Women’s Honor Society

Publications

Textbook

Christensen, N., Leege, L.M. and J. St. Juliana. 2022. The Environment and You. Digital update (equivalent to a 4th edition). 700 pp. Pearson. San Francisco.

Christensen, N., Leege, L.M. and J. St. Juliana. 2019. The Environment and You. 3rd edition. 700 pp. Pearson. San Francisco.

Christensen, N. and L.M. Leege. 2016. The Environment and You. 2nd edition. 700 pp. Pearson. San Francisco.

Peer reviewed (* denotes student)

Ivey, Michaella* and LM Leege. 2023. Life After Privet: Plant Community Dynamics in a Forested Wetland Following Removal of the Invasive Ligustrum sinense Lour. CASTANEA 88(1): 49–60.

Adler, Lynn S., Lissa M. Leege, and Rebecca E. Irwin. 2016. Geographic variation in resistance to nectar robbing and consequences for pollination Am. J. Bot. 103:1819-1828.

Leege, Lissa M. and Jason Kilgore. 2014. The recovery of Lake Michigan sand dune communities following invasive pine removal. Restoration Ecology 22(5): 641-648.

Spiegel, Kimberly S.* and Lissa M. Leege. 2013. Impacts of laurel wilt disease on redbay (Persea borbonia) population structure and forest communities in the coastal plain of Georgia, USA. Biological Invasions 15(11): 2467-2487.

Durden, L.A., T.J. Estep* and L.M. Leege. 2011. Uresiphita reversalis (Crambidae, Pyraustinae) larval herbivory on the state and federally endangered hairy rattleweed, Baptisia arachnifera, in Georgia. Southern Lepidopterists’ News 33: 96-98.

Cawthorn, J. M., L M. Leege and E. Congdon. 2011. Improving learning outcomes in large environmental science classrooms through short-term service-learning projects. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 1(1):75-87.

Thompson, Jacob* and Lissa Leege. 2011. A field study of seed germination in the endangered Trillium reliquum Freeman (Trilliaceae). Plant Species Biology 26: 111-115.

Leege, Lissa, Jacob Thompson*, and Darren Parris*. 2010. The response of rare and common trilliums (Trillium reliquum, T. cuneatum and T. maculatum) to deer herbivory and invasive honeysuckle removal. Castanea 75(4): 433-443.

Leege, Lissa M. and Michelle J. Cawthorn. 2008. Environmental service learning reinforces classroom concepts and engenders environmental responsibility. Journal of College Science Teaching 37: 54-58.

Leege, Lissa M., Martha Schriver, and Karen Chassereau. 2008. Under the mistletoe: Guided inquiry through collaborative research in the secondary biology classroom. The Science Teacher 75: 48-52.

Heckel, Christopher* and L.M. Leege. 2007. Life history and reproductive biology of the endangered Trillium reliquum. Plant Ecology 189 (1): 49-57.

Leege, Lissa M. 2006. The relationship between psyllid leaf galls and redbay (Persea borbonia) fitness traits in sun and shade. Plant Ecology 184(2): 203-212.

Leege, L.M. and L.M. Wolfe. (2002) Do floral herbivores respond to variation in flower characteristics in Gelsemium sempervirens (Loganiaceae), a distylous vine? American Journal of Botany 89:1270-1275.

Leege, L.M. (2001) Would you trust a bryophyte for directions? A field exercise for determining the distribution of moss on trees. American Biology Teacher 63(5):337-339.

Leege, L. M. and P. G. Murphy. (2001) Ecological effects of the non-native Pinus nigra on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan. Canadian Journal of Botany 79(4):429-437.

Leege, L.M. and P.G. Murphy. (2000) Growth of the non-native Pinus nigra in four habitats on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan. Forest Ecology and Management 126: 191-200.

Zook, M., Leege, L.M., Jacobson, D.J., Hammerschmidt, R. (1998). Camalexin accumulation in Arabis lyrata. Phytochemistry 49 (8): 2287-2289.

For the General Public

2005. Themes of the Times on the Environment: A collection of articles from the New York Times. Pearson, Benjamin Cummings. (contributed all pedagogical content in the form of questions on the articles)

Leege, Lissa M. December 9, 2004. Statesboro Herald Guest Editorial Column "So why should we recycle?" p. 8.

Leege, Lissa M. 2004. Recycling! It all comes back to you. The Cleanup Times 3:1 and 3. (A publication of Keep Bulloch Beautiful)

Leege, L.M. 2002. Ask the experts: How does the Venus flytrap digest flies? Scientific American 287:134.

Michaud-Lawrence, S., L. M. Leege, M. K. Heidemann, and D. O. Straney. 1995 - 2005. Biological Science 110 and 111 Laboratory Manual, 1st and 2nd Edition. Hayden-McNeil Publishing Inc. U.S.A. 335 pp.

Leege, Lissa M. 1995. Technology in the classroom: e-mail discussion groups. MSU T.A. 3(2):3.

"Unit descriptions" In: The Utah Wilderness Coalition. 1990. Wilderness at the edge. Salt Lake City. Foundation for the Utah Wilderness Coalition. 400pp. in 2nd printing.

Leege, LM 1989. Relict plants prevail. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Newsletter. 6(2):8-9.

Grants and Contracts

Contract with City of Tybee Island. Monitoring Coastal Dune Resilience. ($20,000, September 2022- September 2024).

Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Incentive Grant Cycle 23. Evaluating Best Practices in Dune Restoration: Vegetation Research and Monitoring on Tybee Island. Sub-award from City of Tybee Island ($62,000, October 2020 – September 2022).

Faculty Service Grant. “Amplifying the After School Garden Program.” ($2,000, March – June 2019).

Keep America Beautiful/Lowe’s Community Improvement Grant with Keep Bulloch Beautiful. Afterschool Garden Program ($20,000, April 2013 – December 2013).

Teacher Quality Higher Education Program. Improving Teacher Quality: Savannah River Basin: Problem-based, Place-based STEM. Co PI with Robert Mayes. ($53,678, March 2013 – March 2014).

Ray C. Anderson Foundation Grant. “Vertical Integration of Research, and Technical, Undergraduate, and graduate Education for Sustainability (VIRTUES) with Michael E. Chang, Deputy Director, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and Mary Hallisey-Hunt, Director, Special Projects, Strategic Energy Institute, (Georgia Institute of Technology), Karin Scarpinato, Lissa Leege, (Georgia Southern University) and Sandra Neuse, University System of Georgia Board of Regents, entitled), ($43,700 January 2013 – January 2014).

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR). The Effects of Timber Management Practices (Herbicide and Thinning) on Survival, Growth and Reproduction of the Endangered Herb, Baptisia arachnifera. ($20,000, December 2012 – October 2014)

Teacher Quality Higher Education Program. ASTERS: Adventures in Science, Teaching, Exploration and Resourceful Stewardship at Georgia Southern Botanical Garden - A Teacher Training. PI. ($36,038.19, March 2012 - June 2013).

Teacher Quality Higher Education Program. Adventures in Science, Teaching, Exploration and Resourceful Stewardship: ASTERS at Georgia Southern Botanical Garden. Co-PI with Carolyn Altman. ($33,316, March 2011 - June 2012).

Improving Campus Habitat and Watershed Sustainability by Creating a Bioswale: an Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Project. Service Learning Mini-Grant, Office of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement, Georgia Southern University ($1,000, March 2010-June 2010).

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR). Baptisia arachnifera response to fire and potential for restoration in a natural site. ($18,500, September 30, 2009 - December 2011).

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR). The effects of prescribed burning and population fragmentation on the population dynamics of the federally endangered herb, Trillium persistens. ($18,697, April 1, 2009 - December 2010; no-cost extension to October 2011).

Teacher Quality Higher Education Program. Under the mistletoe: an inquiry based, web-interfaced collaborative research project in ecology for Grades 6-12. Co-PI with Carolyn Altman. ($27,094, March 2008 - June 2009).

Teacher Quality Higher Education Program. Adventures in Science, Teaching, Exploration and Resourceful Stewardship: ASTERS at Georgia Southern Botanical Garden. PI with Carolyn Altman, C0-PI. ($39,278, March 2008 - June 2009).

COUR Student Research Award (Faculty mentor for undergraduate student, Joseph Kelley). Effect of fire on Baptisia arachnifera germination rates. (March 2008, $2,000)

Georgia Southern University, Office of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management; Travel Grant to attend Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, Nashville, TN. March 2008 ($1,000).

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR). Baptisia arachnifera recruitment and response to fire. ($5,800, June 2007 - December 2008)

Georgia Southern University. Catalyst Grant. “Development of a consortium for the preservation of plant diversity in the Southeastern USA.” $30,000. Co P.I with Michelle Zjhra. (September 2006- September 2007, grant renewal)

NSF-PRISM Mini-Grant. Under the mistletoe: A inquiry based, web-interfaced, collaborative research project in ecology for grades 7-16. (May 2005: $34,105) Co P.I with Marti Schriver and Karen Chassereau.

COUR Student Research Award (Faculty mentor for undergraduate student, D. Joshua Parris). An Impact Assessment of Odocoileus virginianus herbivory and the presence of Lonicera japonica on populations of Sanguinaria canadensis (November 2005, $2,404)

Faculty Student Research Grant (Faculty mentor for graduate student, Jacob Thompson). The impacts of white-tailed deer herbivory and invasive Lonicera japonica on the population dynamics of Trillium reliquum and its associated spring ephemeral community. (November 2005, $3,000)

Faculty Development Grant for Professional Travel. PI. Awarded Fall 2005 for travel in January 2006. ($790)

US Fish and Wildlife Service. Hairy Rattleweed dynamics in managed and natural habitats. PI (October 2005; $3,200)

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR) Natural Heritage Program. Hairy rattleweed project P.I. ($4,800) May 2005 – Dec. 2006.

NSF-PRISM Mini-Grant. Under the mistletoe: A inquiry based, web-interfaced, collaborative research project in ecology for grades 7-16. (May 2005: $15,725) Co P.I with Marti Schriver and Karen Chassereau.

NSF-PRISM Mini-Grant. Developing Georgia Southern Botanical Garden’s Science Education Programs for Teachers and Schoolchildren. (May 2005: $37,336). Co PI with Cherry Brewton and Deb Miller.

National Science Foundation. ROA Supplemental with Lynn Adler and Rebecca Irwin, to Current NSF grant: “Chemical defenses against floral enemies: costs and benefits of toxic nectar to nectar robbing, pollination, and plant fitness” Co PI (August 2005; $28,000).

Georgia Southern University. Catalyst Grant. “Development of a consortium for the preservation of plant diversity in the Southeastern USA.” $20,000. Co P.I with Sue Brogdon, Lorne Wolfe and Michelle Zjhra. (May 2005-May 2006).

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR) Natural Heritage Program. January 2005-2006. “The impacts of white-tailed deer herbivory and invasive Lonicera japonica on the population dynamics of Trillium reliquum.” P.I. ($20,000) January 2005 – January 2007.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources, contract: “Monitoring effects of Austrian pine removal at Saugatuck Dunes State Park.” ($4,441) PI. (December 2004- September 2005)

NSF-PRISM Mini-Grant. Curriculum Reform for the Introductory Biology Sequence in the Department of Biology, Co P.I with Michelle Zjhra and Michelle Cawthorn. $5,000, August 2004 – June 2005.

Faculty Development Grant for Professional Travel. Awarded Spring 2004 for travel in August 2004. $693.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources, contract: “Monitoring effects of Austrian pine removal at Saugatuck Dunes State Park.” ($5,867) PI. (November 2003-September 2004)

Challenge Cost Share Grant with National Park Service. June 2000. "Monitoring Horse Impacts on Sensitive Barrier Island Ecosystems at Cumberland Island National Seashore." P.I. ($14,200)

Georgia Southern University Faculty Development and Welfare Committee: Faculty Summer Award to develop a new course “Interpretive Natural History.” 2000. ($1,500)

Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (The Ohio State University). January 2000. “Impacts of science on society: a national workshop and on-line resource for scientists and science educators.” Co-PI with David Culver and Michael Jones. ($12,000)

Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Grant. November 1999. “The relative consequences of herbivory for plant fitness across the life cycle of the strandline annual, Cakile edentula. (Bigel.) Hook. ($1000).

Georgia Southern University Faculty Development and Welfare Committee: Development of Instruction Grant. October 1999. Co-PI with Dr. Lorne Wolfe. “Development of a Permanent Teaching Greenhouse: Phase II.” ($5000)

Georgia Southern University Faculty Development and Welfare Committee: Development of Instruction Grant. October 1998. Co-PI with Dr. Lorne Wolfe. “Development of an Educational Greenhouse on the GSU Campus.” ($4000)

Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) Parks and Recreation Division. 1997. Contract to write the management plan for Pinus nigra, an invasive pine at Saugatuck Dunes State Park. P.I. ($4,000)

MDNR Parks and Recreation Division. 1996, and 1995: $9,100 and $10,000 for project entitled: The ecological impact of exotic trees on native sand dune ecosystems of Lake Michigan: Implications for conservation and restoration. Co-PI. with Dr. Peter Murphy.

MDNR Natural Heritage Program Nongame Wildlife Fund Small Grants Program. 1996, 1995, 1994: $2,750; $2,000; and $4000 for project entitled: The ecological impact of exotic trees on native sand dune ecosystems of Lake Michigan: Implications for conservation and restoration. P.I.: Dr. Peter Murphy.

MSU, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology: Paul Taylor Fund. Summer 1996: $405 for travel to present at Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Providence, RI; Spring 1996: $350 for travel to Puerto Rico to assist in tropical dry forest field research; Spring 1995: $500 for travel to present at ESA meeting in Snowbird, UT; Spring 1993: $400 for research related travel and supplies.

MSU, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program. Spring 1996: $250 for travel to Puerto Rico to assist in tropical dry forest field research; Summer 1995: $250 for travel to present at ESA meeting in Snowbird, UT; and Spring 1994: $250 for travel to attend ESA meeting in Knoxville, TN.

Memberships

Ecological Society of America

Botanical Society of America

Southern Appalachian Botanical Society

Sigma Xi

Phi Beta Kappa

Blue Key National Honor Society

Seminars & Papers Presented

Invited Talks

2021

· Columbus State University (Columbus, GA), “Greening from the Ground(s) Up: Reflections on How to Grow Sustainability in Higher Education:” (April) – invited Earth Day speaker

2019

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Brooklet Garden Club 10th Anniversary Celebration, “Plants as the Solution to Global Environmental Problems” (September)

· Quy Nhon, Vietnam. Workshop Presenter: Plastic Waste Reduction in the Ocean: Educating the Educators. Two presentations: “Introduction to Environmental Science and Sustainability” and “Importance of Education to Environmental Protection.” (August)

· Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, PA), “Greening from the Ground(s) Up: Growing Sustainability in Higher Education” (April)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Statesboro Jaycees, “Sustainability and You: Planning for the Planet” (April)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, 4-H Junior-Senior Meeting, “Trash Talk: Our Problem with Waste” (March)

2018

· Savannah, GA. Guest speaker, Student Government Association, “Sustainability at Georgia Southern” (November)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Student Government Association, “Skip the Straw: our Plastic Waste Problem” (October)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Senior Companion Program, Greening from the Ground(s) Up at

Georgia Southern University” (April)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Professional Women of Statesboro, Greening from the Ground(s) Up at

Georgia Southern University” (February)

2017

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Rotary Club, “Greening from the Ground(s) Up at

Georgia Southern University” (October)

· Atlanta, GA. Presenter, Future Facilities Summit-5, “Greening from the Ground(s) Up at

Georgia Southern University” (May)

· Statesboro, GA. Care of Creation Speaker, Trinity Episcopal Church. (March)

· Statesboro, GA. Keynote speaker, Arbor Day Celebration, City of Statesboro. (March)

2016

· Statesboro, GA. Keynote speaker, Friends of the Library Farm to Table fundraiser: “Georgia Southern University: a Model of Sustainability.” (June)

· Statesboro, GA, Invited panelist, Diversity, Inclusion, and Fairness Conference: “Women and Mentorship in Academia: In the Classroom and in the Profession” (April)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Kiwanis Club, “Georgia Southern University: a Model of Sustainability.” (January)

· St. Ambrose University (Davenport, IA), endowed Hauber Chair of Biology speaker. “From conservation to campus composting: a story of sustainability in research and action.” (February)

2015

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture, Statesboro High School, Honors Environmental Science ““Georgia Southern University: a Model of Sustainability.”

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Daughters of the American Revolution Meeting: “Georgia Southern University: a Model of Sustainability.”

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker Altrusa Meeting: “Georgia Southern University: a Model of Sustainability.”

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, University Advancement Meeting“Georgia Southern University: a Model of Sustainability.”

· Statesboro, GA. Guest speaker, Admissions Staff Meeting: “Georgia Southern University: a Model of Sustainability.”

2014

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture in BIOL 1230 “Sustainability and you at GSU: How to be a green eagle.” (Spring and Fall 2014)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture in RECR Planning and Design. Planning and Design. "Planning for Sustainability" (2 classes)

· Statesboro, GA. Invited speaker, Tri Beta: “What have your sustainability fees done for you lately?”

· Statesboro, GA. Invited speaker, Student Government Association: “What have your sustainability fees done for you lately?”

· Statesboro, GA. Invited speaker, Democratic Gala.

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture in TCGT 1530, Global Sustainability and Innovation: “Sustainability and you at GSU: How to be a green eagle.” (Spring 2014)

2013

· Statesboro, GA. Invited speaker, New Faculty Orientation, College of Science and Mathematics. "A Day in my Classroom: Environmental Biology for All"

· Statesboro, GA. Rotary Club (February 2013).

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture in TCGT 1530, Global Sustainability and Innovation: “Sustainability and you at GSU: How to be a green eagle.” (Spring 2013)

2012

· Columbus, OH Symposium speaker: EcoSummit 2012, for symposium entitled: A day at the beach: Restoration of the ecosystems services provided by sand dunes. “Long term recovery of dune systems following pine invasion and management.” L.M. Leege and Jason Kilgore.

· Savannah, GA. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Seminar Series. “Sustainable Solutions: Turning Theory into Practice.”

· Statesboro, GA. Keep Bulloch Beautiful Quarterly Board Meeting; “Sustainability at Georgia Southern University and Beyond.”

· Statesboro, GA. Newcomers Club. “Sustainability at Georgia Southern University and Beyond.”

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture in TCGT 1530, Global Sustainability and Innovation: “Sustainability and you at GSU: How to be a green eagle.” (Spring and Fall 2012)

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture in Honors Biology Seminar: “Rare plant population ecology in the southeastern US.”

2011

· Statesboro, GA. Briggs and Stratton National Sustainability Team Summit. “Sustainability at Georgia Southern University and Beyond.”

· Invited Webinar speaker for Georgia Chamber of Commerce series: “The Business of Sustainability”

· Invited Webinar speaker for Pearson Speaking About Environmental Science Forum: “Incorporating Service Learning into a Non-Majors Environmental Biology Course.”

· Statesboro, GA. Garden Club speaker: “Rare wildflowers of Georgia.”

· Statesboro, GA. Guest lecture in TCGT 1530, Global Sustainability and Innovation: “Sustainability and you at GSU: How to be a green eagle.”

· Statesboro, GA. All Campus Recreation and Intramurals training speaker: Sustainability and you at GSU: How to be a green eagle.”

· Statesboro, GA. Charter Conservatory

· Statesboro, GA. Unitarian Universalist Church. Sustainability and Service.

· Statesboro, GA. Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society, banquet speaker.

· Statesboro, GA. “Center for Sustainability.” Tri Beta meeting.

2010

· Macon, GA. “Students in Action: engaging the student body in campus and community sustainability.” Georgia Campus Sustainability Meeting.

2009

· Statesboro, GA. "Service Learning: Making it Count for You and Your Students." for course development workshop at the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Georgia Southern University.

· Savannah, GA. Laurel Wilt Disease Conferences - Forest Healt Monitoring Working Group Meeting. "Host Chemistry and Redbay Ambrosia Beetle Attraction."

· Atlanta, GA. College of Science and Technology Advisory Board. "Updates on the College Office of Sustainability."

· Statesboro, GA. University Excellence in Service Lecture. "All for One and One for All: Integrating Service with Teaching and Scholarship for Maximum Imact."

· Statesboro, GA. Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Board Meeting. "Introduction to the College Office of Sustainability."

2008

· Statesboro, GA. College of Science and Technology Advisory Board. "Introducing the College Office of Sustainability."

· Statesboro, GA. Service - Learning Brownbag Lunch. Center for Excellence in Teaching.

· Statesboro, GA. Wildlife in Science Education workshop. "Sustainability for Teachers."

· Statesboro, GA. Rotary Club of Statesboro. "Introducing the College Office of Sustainability."

· Statesboro GA. Research Experience for Undergraduates. "Plant conservation ecology: threats to plant biodiversity."

· Statesboro, GA. Faculty Learning Community on Service Learning and Civic Engagement, "Forum on Service Learning." Center for Excellence in Teaching.

2006 · Savannah, GA. PRISM Institute. Oral presentation: “Under the Mistletoe: guided inquiry in the biology classroom" with Karen Chassereau.

2005

· Statesboro, GA. GSU. Dean’s Advisory Board, College of Science and Technology, GSU. “The consortium for the conservation of plant diversity: a GSU Catalyst grant.

· Savannah, GA. PRISM Institute. Oral presentation: “Growing Partners in Science” with Brooke Brandenburg.

· Statesboro, GA. Invited panelist. Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs, “Not your father’s grant writing workshop.”

2004 Hope College, Holland, MI. “Beauty meets the beast: What happens when native plant communities open their doors to invaders?”

2002

· Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University. “The influence of herbivory on Coastal Plain plants: there's no such thing as a free lunch.”

· Department of Biology and Geology, University of South Carolina, Aiken. “The energetic and fitness costs of psyllid leaf galls in redbay (Persea borbonia).”

2001

· Sigma Xi Chapter, Georgia Southern University. Participant in award-winning program, “Science and the media: relaying research to reporters and the public.”

· Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University. "Spatial patterns in a plant - insect interaction: It's a galling story."

2000

· Department of Biology, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. “The distribution of galls on redbay leaves in sand dune and maritime forest habitats: is life really better at the beach?”

1999

· Sigma Xi Chapter, Georgia Southern University. “Non-native species invasions at the millenium: have aliens taken control?”

· Department of Botany, University of Florida. “The ecological impact of Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan: an introduced species becomes an invader.”

· Department of Biology, College of Charleston. “The ecological impact of Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan: an introduced species becomes an invader.”

1998

· Ohio University, Athens, OH. Department of Environmental and Plant Biology. “The ecological impact of Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan: an introduced species becomes an invader.”

· Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA. “The ecological impact of Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan: an introduced species becomes an invader.”

· Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. Biology Department. “The ecological impact of Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan: an introduced species becomes an invader.”

1997

· Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. Dissertation Defense Seminar. “The ecological impact of Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan: an introduced species becomes an invader.”

· The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. “The ecological impact of the invasive Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.”

· Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. “The ecological impact of the invasive Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.”

· Loras College, Dubuque, IA. “The ecological impact of the invasive Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.”

1996

· Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. Botany and Plant Pathology Departmental Seminar. “What is the ecological impact of non-native Austrian pines on the native sand dune systems of Lake Michigan?”

· Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Colloquium. “Biological invasions: a case study in the Lake Michigan sand dunes.”

1994

· Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. EAS (Ecologically Active Students) meeting, MSU: “Biological invasions: a case study in the Lake Michigan sand dunes.”

· Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. EEB Colloquium. “The ecological impact of exotic Austrian pines on native sand dune ecosystems of Lake Michigan.”

· Saugatuck, MI. Review of research for Friends of Saugatuck Dunes State Park meeting.

1993

· Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. Botany and Plant Pathology Departmental Seminar. “The ecological impact of exotic trees on native sand dune ecosystems of Lake Michigan: Implications for conservation and restoration.”

· Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. EEB Colloquium. “Biological invasion of Austrian pine in the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.”

Papers Presented

2023

“Response of invasive Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) and its associated plant community to management treatments in a residential wetland.” Lissa Leege, Dahja Wright and Josie Richards. Oral Presentation, 84th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Winston Salem, NC.

“What are the impacts of deer browsing and Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) on native sapling growth in a residential wetland in southeastern Georgia?” Josie Richard and Lissa Leege. Poster Presentation, 84th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Winston Salem, NC.

2022

“In the Face of Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels, Does Human Trampling Affect Dune Resilience and Alter Ecosystem Services?” Alexandra Findlay and Lissa Leege. Oral Presentation, Southern Regional Honors Council Annual Conference. Birmingham, AL.

2021

“Dynamics of Created Dunes for Shore Protection on Tybee Island, Georgia.” Claudia Venherm, Shannon Matzke, Lissa Leege, Alan Robertson and Clark Alexander. Oral Presentation, 26th Biennial Conference of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (virtual).

“Teaching Hope: Action-Oriented Climate Change Instruction in Georgia Higher Education.” Amanda Rees, Lissa Leege and Stacy Blersch, Poster Presentation at Georgia Climate Conference, Jekyll Island, GA.

“What’s a Town to Dune: Can Vegetation be Used to Determine the Success of a Constructed Coastal Sand Dune?” Shannon Matzke and Lissa Leege. Poster Presentation at Georgia Climate Conference, Jekyll Island, GA.

“What’s a Town to Dune: Can Vegetation be Used to Determine the Success of a Constructed Coastal Sand Dune?” Shannon Matzke and Lissa Leege. Oral Presentation, 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists (virtual).

“Privet Removal Increases Cover, but not Native Herb-Layer Richness in a Georgia Wetland.” Michaella Valkenaar and Lissa Leege. Oral Presentation, 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists (virtual).

2020

“Knowledge and Plastic Pollution-Importance of Education to Plastic Waste Reduction: Case Study in Vietnam.” Angela Elzer, Bryan W. Brooks, Lissa Leege, Daniel Schlenk, Clifford J. Shultz, Son T. Tran, Chi V. Vo and Tham Hoang. Oral Presentation, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) National Annual Meeting (virtual).

"Mitigating Climate Threats to Coastal Dunes: Can Plant Community Composition Determine the Success of a Restoration?" Matzke, S. and Leege, LM. Poster presentation, American Shore and Beach Preservation Association National Annual Meeting (virtual).

“Creating A Public Dataset from a Plant Ecology Class Research Project: The Value of Digital Commons as a Pedagogical Tool for Research.” Lissa Leege, Shannon Matzke, Michaella Valkenaar, Rachael Rozelle, Dawn Cannon-Rech and Jeffrey Mortimore. Digital Commons Southeast User Group Annual Conference (online).

2019

“Assessing Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors on a College Campus.” Bailey Chandler and Lissa Leege. National Association for Environmental Education, Annual Meeting, Seattle, KY.

2018

“Assessing Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors on a College Campus.” Bailey Chandler and Lissa Leege. National Association for Environmental Education, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

2016

“Funding Sustainability with Student Sustainability Fee Grants: Campus Collaborations are Greater than the Sum of their Parts.” Lissa M. Leege and Tiffoni Buckle-McCartney. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

“Demography and Potential Deer Herbivory in Populations of the Endangered Trillium persistens (Persistent Trillium).” Lissa M. Leege and Kevin Kirby. Poster presentation. Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA.

2015

“Funding Sustainability with Student Sustainability Fee Grants: Campus Collaborations are Greater than the Sum of their Parts.” Lissa Leege and James Grigg. Georgia Campus Sustainability Network Annual Meeting, Macon, GA.

“Residence Hall Recycling Incentive Program.” Lissa Leege and Margaret Fritze. Georgia Campus Sustainability Network Annual Meeting, Macon, GA

“Fostering Global Sustainability Through Teaching, Service, and Research.” Lissa M. Leege, Rebecca Larson, Jacek Lubecki & Subhrajit Saha. Global Education Summit. Savannah, GA.

2014

"11 Truths about Sustainability Education in Georgia." Michael Chang (Georgia Tech) and Lissa M. Leege. Georgia Campus Sustainability Network Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

"Environmental Service-Learning: Engaging Non-majors in Sustainability Action. Lissa M. Leege and Christina Beslin. Georgia Campus Sustainability Network Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

2013

“Sustainable food from the ground up: engaging students in developing a K-5 school garden program.” Lissa M. Leege, Rebecca Larson and Amy Jo Riggs Deckard. Poster presentation, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.

"Micronutrient Requirements and Timber Management Effects on Endangered Baptisia arachnifera" Ruth Ann Steinbrecher, Subhrajit Saha, Lissa Leege and Chiao-Ying Chou. Poster presentation, Society of American Foresters, National Congress, Charleston, SC. Ruth Ann Steinbrecher and Subhrajit Saha.

“Long-term recovery of dune systems following pine invasion and management.” Jason Kilgore and Lissa Leege. Oral presentation. Michigan Consortium of Botanists Annual Meeting, Albion, MI.

2012

“The effects of fire and dormancy on population dynamics of endangered Trillium persistens.” Tabitha N. Williford, Lissa M. Leege and Cassandra M. Plank. Oral presentation, Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.

“Measuring Long-Term Effects of Deer Herbivory on the Rare Plant, Trillium reliquum using matrix models.” Fulghum, Thomas L; Leege, Lissa M; and Thompson, Jacob. Poster presentation, Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.

2011

“Factors relating to germination and seedling success in Baptisia arachnifera” Timothy J. Estep, Lissa M. Leege, and John Pascarella. Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting in Gainesville, GA.

2010

“Service-Learning and Sustainability: Engaging Students in Sustainability Action.” Lissa M. Leege. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

“Accelerating Climate Action through Local, State and Regional Networks.” Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. L. Madry, J. Goodlaw-Morris, L. Leege, J. Walker, and S. Savanick Hansen, panelists.

“Local adaptation to florivory and nectar robbing in the distylous vine, Gelsemium sempirvirens.” Lissa M. Leege, Rebecca Irwin and Lynn Adler at Botanical Society of America Meeting in Providence, RI.

“Impacts of Laurel Wilt Disease on Redbay (Persea borbonia) Population Structure and Forest Communities in the Coastal Plain of Georgia, USA.” Kimberly S. Spiegel and Lissa M. Leege, at Botanical Society of America Meeting in Providence, RI.

"The effects of prescribed burning and population fragmentation on the demography of the federally endangered herb, Trillium persistens, and its community." Cassandra M. Plank and Lissa M. Leege at Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting in Columbus, GA. Best graduate student paper in Biological Sciences.

“Reproductive biology of the endangered herb Trillium persistens in natural conditions.” Poster presentation with Chase H. Patrick and Lissa M. Leege. at Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting in Columbus, GA.

2009

"Response of an endangered coastal plain legume (Baptisia arachnifera) to prescribed fire. Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL. Winner of North Carolina Botanical Garden Award for best paper.

"Plant community response to Laurel Wilt Disease." Poster presentation with Kimberly Spiegel, Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL.

"Aliens in a new land: how do Asian ambrosia beetles (Xyleborus glabratus) find their host?" Poster presentation with Juliette Jordan, Norman Schmidt and Amanda Hollebone. Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

2008

"An introduction to service-learning: Highlighting S-L models on a college campus. "with Helen Graf, Michelle Cawthorn, Bob Frigo, Stephanie Shipes, Diana Hensely, Mondi Mason, Donna Fisher, Phyllis Dallas. Teaching Family Science Conference, Savannah, GA

"Service learning in large classes: a good time investment for students and faculty?" with Michelle Cawthorn. Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, Nashville, TN.

Sand dune recovery following removal of an invasive life-form, Austrian pine (Pinus nigra): a partnership between management agency and universities." with Jason Kilgore. Teh Stewardship Network Annual Conference, East Lansing, MI.

2006

"The impacts of white-tailed deer herbivory and Lonicera japonica on the population dynamics of Trillium reliquum." Jacob S. Thompson* and L.M. Leege. at Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting at Georgia Perimeter College, Lawrence, GA. Best graduate student paper in Biological Sciences.

"Predicting the spread of an invasive pine: do models match reality?" Poster presentation at Ecology in an Era of Globalization. Ecological Society of America meeting, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. (Research highlighted at conference synthesis on final day.)

2005

"The concentration of essential oils of redbay (Persea borbonia) with respect to seasonal changes." Poster presentation with Sara Calvarese and Norman E. Schmidt at 37th Annual Southeast Regional American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Conference, Mississippi State University.

2004

"The effects of invasive vine encroachment on the population dynamics of an endangered herb." Newsworthy and Late-breaking contributed paper with Christopher D. Heckel. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR.

"When should a plant defend or grow? Herbivory and glucosinolate concentrations through the life of a beach annual, Cakile edentula". Contributed paper with DH Kangeter, BT Ginn, and KR Brown. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR.

Impacts of exotic invasive vines on a population of the endangered Trillium reliquum. Contributed paper with Christopher D. Heckel. Berry College, GA. Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting. Best graduate student paper in Biological Sciences.

2003

Fort Lauderdale, FL. Invasive Plants in Natural and Managed Systems: Linking Science and Management and 7th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions. Poster presentation with Christopher D. Heckel. "Impacts of exotic invasive vines on a population of the endangered Trillium reliquum."

2002

Milledgeville, GA. Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting. Poster with R. B. Hastings. Biological constraints to reproductive success in populations of coastal and inland redbay (Persea borbonia)

Milledgeville, GA. Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting. Poster with P. Dolan. Feral horses in dune and saltmarsh habitats on Cumberland Island.

2001

Brunswick, GA. Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, with Brown, K.R., and B.T. Ginn. Effects of herbivore damage on growth and reproduction in Cakile edentula.

Brunswick, GA. Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, with Dolan, P. Feral horse impacts on the saltmarsh of Cumberland Island.

2000

Snowbird UT. Ecological Society of America National Meeting, with M. H. Jones and D. Culver. Impacts of science on society: a discussion for researchers and educators.

Georgia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Valdosta, GA. With C.J. Bridges. "The Distribution of Galls on Redbay Leaves in Sand Dune and Maritime Forest Habitats: is Life Really Better at the Beach?"

1999

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA. Poster with M.H. Jones. "Science and Society: a cultural context for advances in science for upper division students."

1996

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Providence, RI. "Reproductive success of non-native Pinus nigra in four successional stages on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan."

Annual Meeting Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. Alma, MI. "Reproductive success of the introduced Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan."

1995

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Snowbird, UT. "The ecological impact of exotic Austrian pines on native sand dune ecosystems of Lake Michigan."

Annual Meeting Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. Big Rapids, MI. "The ecological impact of exotic trees on native sand dune ecosystems of Lake Michigan: Implications for conservation and restoration."