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Affiliated Faculty

Director

Dr. Alex Huryn
Box 870206
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0206
(205) 348-4136
Fax: (205) 348-1403
huryn@ua.edu

Executive Committee

Members

Faculty participants in the Center for Freshwater Studies are housed within four colleges/schools at The University of Alabama: College of Arts and Sciences; College of Commerce and Business Administration; College of Engineering; and School of Law.

The list below identifies each faculty member by title, department, and a brief statement of their area of research interests. For additional faculty information, please visit individual directory profiles.

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Paul R. Aharon, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geological Sciences, environmental geology
  • Angelica Almeyda Zambrano, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, ecological anthropology, political ecology, human ecology, sustainable development, tropical conservation and development, land use and land cover change
  • C. Fred T. Andrus, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geological Sciences, paleoclimatology and stable isotope geochemistry
  • Carla Atkinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, land use change influences on patterns and processes in aquatic ecosystems
  • Arthur C. Benke, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, aquatic invertebrate production
  • Jonathan Benstead, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, freshwater ecology, stream ecology, and vertebrate biology
  • Eben N. Broadbent, Assistant Professor, Spatial Conservation and Ecology Lab (http://speclab.ua.edu), Department of Geography, conservation and development, human-environment interactions, land use and land cover change, remote sensing and GIS, tropical forest ecology, ecosystem services
  • C. Hobson Bryan, Professor, Department of Geography, sociology and social impact assessment
  • Julia Cherry, Associate Professor, New College and Department of Biological Sciences, global change on coastal wetlands and population and community dynamics in freshwater wetlands
  • John Clark, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, evolutionary development of flower form and function, plant systematics, taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation
  • Sagy Cohen, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, gemorphology, hydrology, soil science, numerical modeling, GIS, and remote sensing
  • Lisa (Boulton) Davis, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, geomorphology, watershed processes and dynamics, and environmental change
  • Natasha Dimova, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, hydrological processes in marine and aquatic ecosystems
  • Rona J. Donahoe, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, metal cycling and mobility in freshwater
  • Ryan Earley, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, animal behavior studies (primarily fish and reptiles) combining field research, behavioral experimentation, pharmacological manipulations, and neuroendocrine assays
  • Jennifer Edmonds, Assistant Professor of Environmental Microbiology, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nevada State College, freshwater microbial ecology
  • Robert Findlay, Bishop Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, freshwater microbial ecology
  • Luoheng Han, Professor and Associate Dean, Department of Geography, remote sensing and GIS applications
  • Phillip Harris, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, molecular systematics and conservation genetics of freshwater fishes
  • Justin Hart, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, forest dynamics, plant geography, natural resource management
  • Jennifer Howeth, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, integration of population, community, and ecosystem-level processes across spatial scales to understand determinants of species and genetic diversity
  • Alex Huryn, Director of CFS and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, aquatic entomology and stream ecology
  • Matthew Jenny, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, functional genomics and molecular toxicology
  • Juan Lopez-Bautista, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, phycology with emphasis on green algal evolution
  • Yuehan Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, biogeochemical cycling of organic matter in modern and paleo-ecosystems
  • Julie B. Olson, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, molecular microbial ecology
  • Leslie J. Rissler, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, ecology and evolutionary biology
  • Douglas J. Sherman, Professor, Department of Geography
  • Greg Starr, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, controlling factors for carbon, water and energy fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
  • Christina Staudhammer, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, forest biometrics to promote better conservation and management of natural resources
  • Geoffrey Tick, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, contaminant hydrogeology, soil and groundwater restoration
  • Amelia K. Ward, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, freshwater microbial ecology
  • G. Milton Ward, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, stream ecology and aquatic insects
  • Yong Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, numerical simulation of water flow and contaminant transport in porous and fractured media, stochastic hydrology, surface runoff and sedimentation

College of Commerce and Business Administration

  • Samuel N. Addy, Director and Associate Research Economist, Center for Business and Economic Research, natural resource and environmental economics

College of Engineering

  • Alexander Maestre, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, floodplain and stormwater modeling, water quality analysis, GIS and statistics, evaluation of erosion and sediment controls
  • Glenn Tootle, Associate Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, water resources (surface water hydrology), modeling, streamflow forecasting, hydroclimatology and paleohydrology
  • Derek Williamson, Associate Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, fate and treatement of environmental contaminants

School of Law

  • William Andreen, Edgar L. Clarkson Professor, School of Law, environmental law