Faculty/Scientists

Directors

Rhodes

Rhodes, Olin E. Jr. (Gene)

Director, SREL
Professor, Odum School of Ecology
Interim Co-director, UGARI
Website  | rhodes@srel.uga.edu

Wildlife ecology and genetics, including the application of genetic tools to issues in wildlife management and conservation; disease ecology; molecular genetics as a tool for examining wildlife behavior and population structure; sustainability of wildlife species in human-dominated landscapes and resolution of human-wildlife conflicts

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DeVault, Travis L.

Associate Director for Research, SREL
Senior Research Scientist, SREL
Website|devault@srel.uga.edu

Wildlife ecology, conservation, and behavior, including field and laboratory based studies investigating the causes and consequences of animal-vehicle collisions; development of tools and mitigation strategies to reduce animal vehicle-collisions; human-wildlife interactions and wildlife damage management; ornithology; scavenging ecology

Faculty & Scientists

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Abrams, Jesse

Assistant Professor, SREL
Assistant Professor, Natural Resource Policy and Sustainability; Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Website |Jesse.Abrams@uga.edu

Natural resource policy and governance; social dimensions of natural resource management; sustainable development; rural community dynamics

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Aubrey, Doug

Associate Professor, SREL
Associate Professor, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Website | daubrey@srel.uga.edu

Carbon, water, and nitrogen cycling in forests; sustainability of intensively managed bioenergy production systems; fundamental controls on forest productivity; linkages between carbon assimilation, storage, and respiration; disturbance effects on ecosystem dynamics

Beasley

Beasley, James

 Professor, SREL
Terrell Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Website | beasley@srel.uga.edu

Wildlife ecology and management, movement behavior and population dynamics of carnivores, effects of habitat fragmentation and anthropogenic land use on wildlife, mesopredator ecology, management of infectious diseases, scavenging ecology

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Bier, Raven

Assistant Research Scientist, SREL
Website |rbier@uga.edu

Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of freshwaters, wetlands, and uplands; terrestrial-aquatic linkages; microbial community structure and function responses to environmental disturbances; bioremediation

Krista Capps

Capps, Krista A.

Associate Professor, SREL
Associate Professor, Odum School of Ecology
Website | kcapps@uga.edu

Research interests: freshwater ecology, tropical ecology, urban ecology, biogeochemistry, and coupled natural and human systems

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Dutta, Avishek

Assistant Professor, SREL
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Website | Avishek.Dutta@uga.edu

Research interests: microbial community adaptation and function in extreme environments; the role of viruses and eukaryotic microorganisms in ecosystem function and service, astrobiology;  the role of microorganisms in fate and transport of contaminants

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Ferguson, Brennan

Assistant Professor, SREL
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Brennan.Ferguson@uga.edu

Research interests: Geochemistry; environmental radiochemistry; focusing on contaminant transport in the subsurface using a combination of benchtop lab experiments and field experiments

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Kaplan, Daniel

Senior Research Scientist, SREL
Senior Research Scientist, Geochemistry

Associate director, UGARI
Daniel.Kaplan@uga.edu

Research focuses on geochemistry, especially how it relates to terrestrial environmental carbon chemistry, radionuclide fate and transport, groundwater and soil remediation and nanoparticles

Stacy Lance

Lance, Stacey

Senior Research Scientist, SREL
Adjunct Faculty, Odum School of Ecology
Website | lance@srel.uga.edu

Local scale processes and their combined effects on maintenance and distribution of genetic diversity within and among populations; genetics of endangered species, reintroductions, and translocation; effects of environmental contaminant exposure on interplay of behavior, ecology, and population genetics; marker development

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Lin, Peng

Assistant Research Scientist, SREL

peng.lin@uga.edu

Major research focus is on biogeochemistry in natural environments, including radionuclide fate and transport, tracer applications using radioactive and stable isotopes, relationships between trace element and natural organic matter geochemistry, and carbon and nutrients cycling at river-lake, land-ocean and particle-water interfaces.

James Martin

Martin, James A.

Associate Professor, SREL
Associate Professor, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
martinj@warnell.uga.edu

Wildlife ecology and management, game management, non-game and endangered species, wildlife and forest management, wildlife damage, and wildlife population dynamics, conservation, and avian ecology

Benjamin Parrott

Parrott, Benjamin B.

Associate Professor, SREL
Associate Professor, Odum School of Ecology

Website | benparrott@srel.uga.edu

Research utilizes wildlife models along with human studies to investigate environmental and ecological influences on sex determination, sexual development, reproductive health, and aging; focusing on how contaminants that interfere with the endocrine system act during critical developmental windows to affect later health trajectories

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Peach, Daniel

Assistant Professor, SREL
Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine 
Daniel.Peach@uga.edu

Research interests: Vector Ecology and infectious diseases

Tracy Tuberville

Tuberville, Tracey

Senior Research Scientist, SREL
Adjunct Faculty, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Website | tubervil@srel.uga.edu

Conservation and management of reptile and amphibian populations; translocation and reintroduction; genetics as a tool to understanding individual behavior and population dynamics, and landscape processes

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Xu, Xiaoyu

Assistant Research Scientist, SREL
Website | xiaoyuxu@uga.edu

Research interests include ecotoxicology; biogeochemistry and analytical chemistries of metals; toxic effects of contaminants on individuals and populations; molecular toxicity; human/ecological exposure and risk assessment; source tracking and fate of mercury in aquatic and terrestrial systems

Emeritus Faculty

Domy Adriano

Adriano, Domy

Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, SREL
Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry and Biogeochemistry (Emeritus), UGA
domyc@uga.edu

Biogeochemistry of trace metals, source term – bioavailability – risk relationships, risk reduction and management in contaminated sites, waste minimization and recycling, natural attenuation

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Brisbin, I. Lehr

Senior Research Ecologist Emeritus, SREL
brisbin@uga.edu

Vertebrate ecology, radioecology, ecotoxicology, animal behavior, canine olfaction, fate and effects of nuclear and non-nuclear contaminants, fish and game as vectors of human contamination

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Congdon, Justin

Senior Research Ecologist Emeritus , SREL
congdon@srel.uga.edu

Physiological ecology and ecotoxicology of herpetofauna, effects of coal fly ash waste on aquatic and semi-aquatic organisms

Gibbons

Gibbons, J. Whitfield

Senior Research Ecologist Emeritus, SREL
Professor of Ecology Emeritus, Odum School of Ecology, UGA
wgibbons@uga.edu

Population dynamics and ecology of aquatic and semiaquatic vertebrates; factors affecting abundance and distribution of herpetofauna; application of basic population research to wetland conservation and environmental impact assessment

McLeod, Kenneth

Senior Research Ecologist Emeritus, SREL
kwmcleod@srel.uga.edu

Plant physiological ecology, ecological restoration of bottomland and swamp forests, physiological responses of tree species to environmental stress, effects of land management on structure and function of southeastern forests, phytoremediation potential of woody plants