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Solon Martha Dixon Professor
Director, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Understanding, envisioning, and conserving complex earth systems (e.g., complex human-environment systems, human-influenced ecosystems, protected areas) in the context
of global change
Associate Professor of Forest and Fire Ecology
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Forest and Fire Ecology, Forest Management and Restoration, Forest Carbon Storage, Carbon Vulnerability to Changing Fire Regimes
Alumni Professor & Director of Anthropology
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, College of Liberal Arts
Areas of Research:
Political ecology, wastewater management and reuse, water infrastructure, South Asia, Mexico
Areas of Research:
Wetland and floodplain ecology, urban ecology, land use effects and wetland and stream functions, coastal wetland management
Areas of Research:
Crop modeling
Sustainable energy solutions
Precision agriculture
Variable-rate production
Crop yield increase
Crop management systems
Professor
Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture
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Areas of Research:
Improve crop adaptation to climate change and extremes through conventional and genomic approaches such as drought tolerance
Assistant Professor of Forest Genomics
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Hao’s expertise lies in developing climate-smart forest trees that combine high productivity with enhanced environmental resilience. This involves a deep understanding of tree growth and wood formation in response to both abiotic and biotic stresses. You specialize in leveraging multi-omics approaches to infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs), identifying genetic interactions that determine key tree traits, and pinpointing targets for molecular breeding
Areas of Research:
Economics of Food, and Nutrition, Innovative Statistical Methods, Machine Learning, Experimental Econ., Finance, Resource and Envi. Econ
Assistant Professor of Forest Ecophysiology
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Enhancing tree growth, wood quality, timber yield, resistance traits, carbon sequestration capabilities, species distribution and response to climate change
Arthur H. Feagin Chair Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Areas of Research:
Water quality and ecological modeling in aquatic systems (lakes, reservoirs, and estuaries) under past and future climate variations/scenarios
Professor
Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture
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Areas of Research:
Impact of climate change on microbial processes
How drought affects symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes
Areas of Research:
Modeling watershed scale hydrologic processes and wetland nutrient cycling with a focus on land use/cover change impacts
Areas of Research:
Conducting climate modeling experiments to better understand the roles of land and vegetation processes and their coupled atmospheric interactions in improving soil moisture predictability, and clarifying the role of internal climate variability in regional climate change
Robert B. Cook Professor
Department of Geosciences, College of Science and Mathematics
Areas of Research:
Groundwater hydrology
Environmental geochemistry
Reactive transport of contaminants and bioremediation
Effects of climate change on water resources
Areas of Research:
Climate change and human activity impacts on birds and other wildlife
Landscape patterns and processes
Faculty Endowed Professor
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture
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Areas of Research:
Insect Molecular Toxicology and Physiology
Mechanisms of insecticide resistance
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, College of Engineering
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Areas of Research:
Machine learning
Deep learning
Healthcare informatics
Stochastic optimization
Professor
Department of Geosciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics
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Areas of Research:
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
Land Use Change
Water Resources
Biogeography
Weather and Climate
Assistant Professor, Parks & Recreation
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Climate change impacts to nature-based tourism and outdoor recreation management; collaborative management of parks and protected areas; understanding the outcomes of environmental education and environmental communication
Associate Professor
Department of Geosciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics
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Areas of Research:
Geoscience education and geocognition where I explore questions concerning human understanding of Earth systems. My current work ties together the affective and cognitive domains of learning through both qualitative and quantitative methods in the context of climate change phenomena
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, College of Agriculture
Areas of Research:
Agriculture’s impact on land use, water use, water quality, and biodiversity, and how agricultural production is affected by farmers’ behaviors, public policies, agricultural innovation, technology adoption, and climate change
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics
Areas of Research:
Climatology, urbanization and growth models, urban climate, climate change, south Asia urbanization and impacts, sustainability, GIS and remote sensing, climate modeling
Areas of Research:
Ecosystem services, nature-based recreation, human dimensions of wildlife, interdisciplinary research and linked social ecological systems nationally and in Latin America
Areas of Research:
Air-quality effects on productivity and nutritive value of herbaceous vegetation for ruminant livestock and wildlife
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, College of Agriculture
Areas of Research:
Resource economics,
Environmental Economics Policy,
Climate change
Areas of Research:
Utilization of remotely sensed data for vegetation studies, with focus on light detection and ranging (lidar) data from sensors on airborne and spaceborne platforms, application of methods, including machine and deep learning, for estimating vegetation biophysical parameters, and development of approaches for characterizing ecosystem structure through geospatial analysis, using remote sensing and GIS
Areas of Research:
Wetland ecohydrology, green infrastructure for stormwater management, hydrologic modeling, international development
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture
Areas of Research:
Crop modeling, climate change impacts and adaptation
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics
Areas of Research:
Development and effects of abiotic stress on plants, with a specifically interest in how the plant hormone cytokinin is involved in these processes
Areas of Research:
Environmental Economics and Applied Microeconomic Theory
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics
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Areas of Research:
Geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology, landscape evolution, anthropogenic impacts on river systems, GIS applications in geomorphology
Associate Professor
Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture
Areas of Research:
Terrestrial hydro-climate observations, forecasts, and projections; climate extremes, impacts, and resilience in agriculture, water resources, and ecosystems; climate-smart land and water management; environmental data analytics and machine learning/deep learning.
Areas of Research:
Sedimentary geology, including clastic sedimentology, sedimentary petrology, tectonics and stratigraphy, basin analysis and provenance studies of sequences deposited primarily in orogenic systems
Assistant Unit Leader, USGS Alabama Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, and Assistant Research Professor, Auburn University, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Biodiversity responses to anthropogenic disturbance; wildlife habitat management; species distribution modeling; development of wildlife sampling and modeling tools
Areas of Research:
Modeling of extreme flow events in urban environments, Unsteady Hydraulics
Air/water and sediment/water flows
Surface water hydrology, Water stressors on built infrastructure
Assistant Professor, Population and Conservation Genetics
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Linking population responses to habitat change by studying patterns of population genetics, using whole genome sequencing data, bioinformatics, and agent-based models with an emphasis on species with high conservation need
Areas of Research:
Climate Change, Carbon, Methane, and Hydrogen Cycling, Urban Ecology, Ecological and Environmental Remote Sensing, Land use land cover changes
Alumni Professor, Forest Economics and Management
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Areas of Research:
Sustainable forest management and rural development, Land use and land cover change, Landscape perception and culture, Private forestry, Environmental history, Non-market valuation of natural resource and environment, Property rights and institutions, International forestry and forest history, Economics and policy of urban forests and ecosystems