Faculty/Scientists
Directors
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lin, Peng
Assistant Research Scientist, SREL
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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