Julia Cherry
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Julia Cherry
Assistant Professor

101B Carmichael, A210A Bevil

julia.cherry@ua.edu
(205) 348-8416
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Education:

  • B.S. - Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 1999

  • Ph.D. - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2005

Research Focus:

  • Wetland Ecology

  • Effects of Climate Change on Natural Ecosystems

  • Plant Community Dynamics

Teaching Interests:

  • Aquatic & Wetland Ecology

  • Water Resources: Natural History, Ecology, Management

  • Climate Change: Science, Media, and Public Perception

About:

Dr. Cherry grew up in Alabama and aside from being assistant professor in New College is a Faculty Advisor for the University of Alabama Environmental Council (UAEC) & the Scuba Club. She is a board member for the Friends of Hurricane Creek. She received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Religious Studies from Rhodes College (1995-1999). She also received her Ph. D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Alabama (1999-2005). After she received her doctorate, she worked as a post-doctoral Researcher at USGS National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana (2005-2006). In her spare time she enjoys to travel, spend time with her husband and their 3 dogs, jogging, and cooking. She also likes to watch collegiate sports, read fiction, and vampire “lit.”

 

Selected Publications

  • Cherry JA, McKee KL, Grace JB (2009) Elevated CO2 enhances biological contributions to elevation change in coastal wetlands by offsetting stressors associated with sea-level rise. Journal of Ecology 97:67-77.

  • Langley JA, McKee KL, Cahoon DR, Cherry JA, Megonigal JP (2009) Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.0807695106.

  • McKee KL, Cherry JA (2009) Hurricane Katrina sediment slowed elevation loss in subsiding brackish marshes of the Mississippi River Delta. Wetlands 29:2-15.

  • Cherry JA, Ward AK, Ward GM (2009) The dynamic nature of land-water interfaces: changes in structure and productivity along a water depth gradient in the Talladega Wetland Ecosystem. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30:977-980.

  • Valentine-Rose LM, Cherry JA, Culp JJ, Perez KE, Pollock JB, Arrington DA, Layman CA (2007) Floral and faunal differences between fragmented and unfragmented Bahamian tidal creeks. Wetlands 27:702-718.

  • Cherry JA, Gough L (2006) Temporary floating island formation maintains wetland plant species richness: the role of the seed bank. Aquatic Botany 85:29-36.