Clemson University Graduate Student Researcher Wins BioOne Ambassador Award

(Seneca, SC)————————Clemson University College of Science graduate student researcher Rhett Rautsaw is one of only five scientists in the world to receive the 2019 the BioOne Ambassador Award, which recognizes early career authors working to communicate the importance and the impact of their research to the public. 

Rautsaw’s paper, which was published in the Journal Copeia in March of 2018, focused on understanding and testing how railways impact the movement and behavior of gopher tortoises. Gopher tortoises, which are native to the southeastern United States, are threatened with extinction because of habitat destruction and fragmentation, according to a release from Clemson University. The tortoises are found trapped in railways.