Faculty

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 Adminstration, 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 webpages by clicking on the name.

Dr. Amy Ward, Director
Center for Freshwater Studies
Box 870206
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0206
Telephone: (205) 348-1796; Fax: (205) 348-1403
Email: award@biology.as.ua.edu

College of Arts & Sciences

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Paul R. Aharon, Loper Chair & Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, environmental geology

C. Fred T. Andrus, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, paleoclimatology and stable isotope geochemistry

Arthur C. Benke, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, aquatic invertebrate production

Jonathan Benstead, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, freshwater ecology, stream ecology, and vertebrate biology

C. Hobson Bryan, Professor, Department of Geography, sociology and social impact assessment

Julia Cherry, Assistant Professor, New College and Biological Sciences, global change on coastal wetlands and population and community dynamics in freshwater wetlands

Perry F. Churchill, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, bioremediation

John Clark, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, evolutionary development of flower form and function, plant systematics, taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation

Lisa (Boulton) Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, geomorphology, watershed processes and dynamics, and environmental change

Rona J. Donahoe, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, metal cycling and mobility in freshwater

Robert Findlay, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, freshwater microbial ecology

Luoheng Han, Professor, Department of Geography, remote sensing and GIS applications

Phillip Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, molecular systematics and conservation genetics of freshwater fishes

Alex Huryn, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, aquatic entomology and stream ecology

Juan Lopez-Bautista, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, phycology with emphasis on green algal evolution

Julie B. Olson, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, molecular microbial ecology

Martha J. Powell, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Leslie J. Rissler, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, ecology and evolutionary biology

David Shankman, Professor, Department of Geography, biogeography and bioclimatology

Ryan Sponseller , Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, landscape ecology, relationships between land use, spatial scale, and stream function and structure

Greg Starr, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, controlling factors for carbon, water and energy fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems

Geoffrey Tick, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, contaminant hydrogeology, soil and groundwater restoration

Amelia K. Ward, Director of CFS and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, freshwater microbial ecology

G. Milton Ward, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, stream ecology and aquatic insects

Chunmiao Zheng, Professor, Department of Geology, groundwater contaminant transport

College of Commerce and Business Administration

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

Barry Mason, Dean and Professor, Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration

College of Engineering

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S. Rocky Durrans, Professor, Civil Engineering, surface water modeling/statistics

Pauline Johnson, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, water and wastewater engineering

Robert Pitt, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, emerging field of "urban water", stormwater management, water problems, control technologies

Derek Williamson, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, fate and treatment of environmental contaminants

School of Law

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