Julie A. BallengerAssociate Professor. Department of Biology. B.A., Central University of Iowa; M.S., Fort Hays State University; Ph.D., Miami University Research Interests: Plant systematics. Recent Publications:
Courses in the ENVS Program:
John BaroneAssistant Professor. Department of Biology. B.A., B.S. Indiana University; Ph.D. University of Utah Research Interests: Plant community ecology, plant-herbivore interactions and plant diversity, historic distribution of prairies. Recent Publications:
Courses in the ENVS Program:
William S. BirkheadProfessor and Interim Chair, Department of Biology. B.S., Cornell University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Texas Research Interests: Vertebrate ecology. Faunal surveys of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Relocation of gopher tortoises. Impingement of estuarine nektonic organisms on power plant intake screens. Entrainment of estuarine planktonic organisms in power plant cooling water. Recent Publications:
Current Funded Research:
Courses in the ENVS Program:
Rebecca A. Champion
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 | Leo, M., W. Church, and J. Aliaga (editors). 2002. Parque Nacional del Rio Abiseo, Sector Occidental: Diagnóstico Situacional para un Plan de Uso Público, 2nd ed. PROFONANPE and the Fondo Fiduciario Canadá. Lima, Perú. |
| Church, W. 2002. Chavín. In: P. Peregrine and M. Ember, editors. The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Vol. 7, South America. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. New York. |
| Morales, R., L. Valle, W. Church, and L. Coronado. 2002. Los Pinchudos: Mausoleo Polícromo de los Andes Nor Orientales del Perú. Revista Arqueológica Sián, Año 8, Edición 12, Special Edition. Trujillo, Perú. |
| Church, W. Manachaqui: Buscando las Raizes de los Chachapoya. Revista Archaeológica Sian Año 9, Edicion 14. Trujillo, Perú. (In Press) |
| Church, W., and R. Morales. 2004. Tomb Raiders of El Dorado: Conservation Dilemmas on a “New” Archaeological Frontier in Peru. The SAA Archaeological Record 4 (1): 24-29. Washington, DC. |
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| ENVS 7555 Historical Ecology |
Acting Chair of Environmental Science Program and Professor, Department of Chemistry and Geology.
B.S., Furman University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina.
Research Interests: Sedimentology.
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| ENVS 5165G Introduction to Hydrology |
| GEOL 5115 Geochemistry |
| GEOL 5135 Introduction to Oceanography |
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Geology
B.S., M.S., Addis Ababa University; Ph.D., Philipps University
Research Interests: Analysis of heavy metal pollutants in water; synthesis and spectroscopic characterization lanthanide complexes
Recent Publications:
| Kebede, E., J. Gan and Z. Gebeyehu. Non-point Source Pollution and Land Use Pattern Linkage: A Watershed Approach”, The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science (Submitted) |
| Tomlin, D. W., T. M. Cooper, D. E. Zelmon, Z. Gebeyehu and J. M.Hughes. Cadmium isopropylxanthate. Acta Cryst., C55, 717-719, 1999. |
| Zelmon, D. E., Z. Gebeyehu, D. Tomlin, and T. M. Cooper. Investigation of Transition Metal-Xanthate Complexes for Nonlinear Optical Applications. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 519, 395-400, 1998 |
| Z. Gebeyehu. Reactions of a Chloronitreno Complexes of Tusngsten with Phosphorous Trichloride: Synthesis and Characterization of Cl5W(NPCl3). Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, Vol. 68, No. 3, P. 272, 1997. |
| Z. Gebeyehu. Reactions of a Chloronitreno Complexes of Tusngsten with Gallium Trichloride: Synthesis and Characterization of (ClN)Cl3W(µ-Cl)2GaCl2). Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, Vol. 67, No. 4, October, 1996. |
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| ENVS 7115 Environmental Chemistry |
Professor. Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biology.
B.S., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Interests: Structural geology and Geographical Information Systems. Measurement of strain in highly deformed, high-grade metamorphic rocks. Geologic mapping in metamorphic terrain.
Recent Publications:
| Hanley, T.B., C.I. Chalokwu, and M. Steltenpohl. 1997. Constraints on the location of the Carolina/Avalon terrane boundary in the southernmost exposed Appalachians, western Georgia and eastern Alabama. Pp. 15-24 in: L. Glover III and A.E. Gates (eds.) Central and Southern Appalachians Sutures: Results of the EDGE Project and related studies. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 314. |
| Hanley, T.B., and M. Steltenphohl. 1993. Down to the southeast kinematic indicators assocaited with the Goat Rock fault and gneisses to the south. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 25: 21. |
| Hanley, T.B., and C.J. Chalokwu. 1990. Geochemistry, petrogenesis, and tectonic setting of amphibolites from the southernmost exposure of the Appalachian Piedmont. Journal of Geology 98: 725-738. |
| Hanley, T.B. 1986. Petrology and structural geology of Uchee Belt Rocks in Columbus, Georgia. Pp. 297-300. Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide - Southeastern Section. |
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| ENVS 5225 Natural Environments of Georgia (team-taught) |
Associate Professor. Department of Biology.
B.A., La Grange College; M.S., Auburn University; PhD, Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Invertebrate ecology and evolution, faunal surveys of terrestrial arthropods, biosystematics of the Coccoidea.
Recent Publications:
| Hendricks, H.J. and M. Kosztarab. 1999. Revision of the Tribe Serrolecaniini (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Das Tierreich. Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin. 213 pp. |
| Hendricks, H.J. and M.L. Williams. 1992. Life history of Melanaspis obscura (Homoptera: Diaspididae) infesting pin oak in Alabama. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 85(4): 452-457. |
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| BIOL 5525G Invertebrate Biology |
| BIOL 5535G Tropical Ecology of the Bahamas (team-taught) |
| ENVS 6105 Environmental Issues |
Assistant Professor. Department of Chemistry and Geology.
B.S., Benedict College; Ph.D., Howard University
Research Interests: Inorganic chemistry.
Recent Publications:
| Jackson, F., J. Dillard, D. Dillard, B. Holmes, H. Parvatareddy, and R. Zatorski. 1998. The durability of adhesively bonded titanium: Performance of plasma sprayed polymeric coating pretreatments. J. Adhesion 65: 217-238. |
Associate Professor. Department of Chemistry and Geology.
B.S., Norwich University; Ph.D., Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Bio-organic chemistry. Pharmacological role of lead ion in the environment. Endocrine modulators in the environment. Second messenger pathways involving the central nervous system. Isolation and synthesis of bioactive molecules.
Recent Publications:
| Lovelette, C.A., and E. Wright. 1996. Effects of lead (II) ion on the prophenoloxidase enzyme system and the genotoxicity fo lead (II), cadmium (II), and chromium (VI) in P. acutissimus (Crayfish). American Chemical Society. Abstract. |
| Lovelette, C.A., and E. Wright. 1996. Effects of lead (II) ion on the activity of 5-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) in T. scripta (slider turtles). American Chemical Society. Abstracts. |
| Lovelette, C.A., W.S. Barnes, J.H. Weisburger, and G.W. Williams. 1987. Improved synthesis of the food mutagen, 2-Amino-3,7,8-trimethylimidazo[4,5,-f]quinoxaline in a mammalian DNA repair system. J. Agric. Food Chem. 35: 912. |
Associate Professor. Department of Biology.
B.S., University of Memphis; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Plant genetics.
Professor. Department of Chemistry and Geology.
B.S., University of Wisconsin; M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Research Interests: Paleontology and environmental geology. Paleobiology of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs in southeastern United States. Taxonomy and paleoecology of Late Cretaceous fishes. Biogeography of Late Cretaceous crocodilians in North America. Systematics and biostratigraphy of Middle Cambrian trilobites in the southern Appalachians. Geological impacts analysis and mitigation, including point-sourcing of pollutants and provenance of aquatic sedimentation.
Recent Publications:
| Kiernan, C. R. and D. R. Schwimmer. (In Press). A velociraptorine tooth fromAlabama and its paleogeographic implications. The Mosasaur, 7. |
| Carr, T. D., T. E. Williamson, and D. R. Schwimmer. (In Press). A new genus and species of tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian) Demopolis Formation of Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. |
| Schwimmer, D.R. 2002. King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus. Indiana University Press. 221 pp. |
| SCHWIMMER, D. R. 2002. Giant fossil coelacanths from the Late Cretaceous of the eastern USA. Fernbank Magazine, 26(2):24-30. |
| Schwimmer, D.R., G.E. Hooks, and B. Johnson. 2002. Revision of taxonomy, age, and geographic range of the large lamnid Cretodus semiplicatus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):704-707 |
| Case, G.R., D.R. Schwimmer, P.D. Borodin, and J.J. Leggett. 2001. A new selachian fauna from the Eutaw Formation (Upper Cretaceous/early to middle Santonian) of Chattahoochee County, Georgia. Paleontographica, Part A, 261: 83-102. |
| Schwimmer, D.R. 1999. Creationist logic and rhetoric, and some responses. Pp. 105-117 in Kelly, P.H., Bryan, J.R., and Hansen, T.A. (eds.) The Creation-Evolution Controversy II: Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Geological Education. Paleontological Society Special Paper, 5. |
| Hooks, G.E. D.R. Schwimmer, and G.D. Williams. 1999. Synonymy of the pycnodont Phacodus punctatus Dixon, 1850, and its occurrence in the Late Cretaceous of the Southeastern United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19: 589-591. |
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| ENVS 5255 Environmental Geology |
| ENVS 7145 Land Use and Waste Management |
Professor of Biology and Dean, College of Science
B.S., Bucknell University; Ph.D., University of Maine
Research Interests:Aquatic ecology/Invertebrate Ecology. Biogeography, life history and community analyses of crayfish species; descriptive ecology of invertebrate communities of granite outcrop intermittent pools; and population/life history analyses of insect pests.
Recent Publications:
| Stanton, G.E., and H.L. Griffith III. 1996. Observations on dispersal and life history of Psychoda alternata in a surface application field, Columbus, GA. Technical Rpt., Columbus Water Works. |
| Stanton, G.E. 1995. Distributions and life history ecology of Procambarus (Ortmannicus) acutissimus (Girard) and Procambarus (Ortmannicus) verrucosus Hobbs in Georgia, 1993-1995. Technical Rpt., Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Nongame Species Program. |
| Harrison, A.M., and G.E. Stanton. 1992. Effects of predation by Chrysoperela rufilabris on population densities of Monelliopsis pecanus under laboratory conditions. Georgia Journal of Science 50: 18-19. |
Current Funded Research:
| "Faunistic survey of macroinvertebrate communities of intermittent pools associated with granite outcrops of the Georgia Piedmont." Georgia Department of Natural Resources. |
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| BIOL 5525G Aquatic Entomology (team-taught) |
| ENVS 6207 Ecological Methods (team-taught) |
Professor of Biology and Associate Dean, School of Science.
B.S., University of Rhode Island; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Cell biology and physiological ecology. GIS/GPS technology associated with environmental assessments.
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| ENVS 6235 Introduction to Geographic Information and Global Positioning Systems |
Associate Professor. Department of Biology.
B.S., Western Michigan University; Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Research Interests: Environmental toxicology. Effects of metal ions on aquatic organisms. Freshwater mussels. Toxic effects of compounds on nematodes.
Recent Publicatons:
| Stringfellow, C. and J. Zuiderveen. 2003. "Follow-up Report on Freshwater Mussels of the Tallapoosa and Little Tallapoosa River Drainage Systems in Georgia". Final report submitted to Eco-South, Inc., Covington, GA. |
| Zuiderveen, J. C. Stringfellow and G. Dinkins. 2002. "Survey for the Purple Bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus) and other Native Mussels in the Upper Reach of the Goat Rock Impoundment". Final report submitted to Georgia Power Company, Columbus, GA. |
| Zuiderveen, J.A., and W.J. Birge. 1997. The relationship between chronic values in toxicity tests with Ceriodaphnia dubia. In: F.J. Dwyer, T.R. Doane, and M.L. Hinman (eds.) Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Modeling and Risk Assessment (6th Volume) ASTM STP 1317. |
| Birge, W.J., J.R. Shaw, D.J. Price, and J.A. Zuiderveen. 1997. Persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity of silver in freshwater systems. In: A.W. Andren and T.W. Bober (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Transport, Fate and Effects of Silver in the Environment. |
| Zuiderveen, J.A., and W.J. Birge. 1996. The comparative toxicity of silver to aquatic biota. Pp. 80-88 In: A.W. Andren and T.W. Bober (eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Transport, Fate and Effects of Silver in the Environment. |
| Kercher, M.D., J.A. Zuiderveen, and W.J. Birge. 1995. Do effluent biomonitoring procedures adequately protect freshwater biota? Pp. 2-13 - 2-22 In: Water Environment Federation (WEF) Specialty Conference Series Proceedings, Toxic Substances in Water Environments: Assessment and Control. |
Courses in the ENVS Program:
| BIOL 5515G General Toxicology |
| BIOL 5525G Phycology |
| BIOL 5535G Aquatic Toxicology |
| BIOL 5515G Environmental Toxicology |
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