Executive Director
Matt Womble
Executive Director, Alabama Water Institute
AWI Research Entity Directors
Steven J. Burian, Ph.D., PE
Executive Director, CIROH; Director of Science, Alabama Water Institute; Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Michael Fedoroff, Ph.D., RPA
Director, CONSERVE Research Group
Michael S. Gremillion
Director, Global Water Security Center
AWI Directors
Lanna Nations
Research Education and Outreach Program Director
Stefanie O’Neill, M.A.
Director Research Institute Financial Affairs
Brock Parker, M.A.
Director of Research Institute Communications
AWI Staff
C. Bullen
CIROH Project Coordinator
Kim Byers, MBA
Communications Specialist III
Allison Chapman
Accountant II
James Halgren, Ph.D., PE
Assistant Director Science and Research Operations
Hannah Holcomb, Ph.D.
AWI Research Education Program Manager
Natalie Lau
Accountant II
Charity McCalpin
CIROH Research Project Coordinator
Arpita Patel
Manager Development Operations and Enterprise Architect
Shannon Price
AWI Sponsored Programs Manager
Irasema Quezada
Graphic Designer II
Ryan Ruiz
CIROH Communications Specialist II
Cass Saenz
Financial Analyst
Amrutha Suresh, Ph.D.
AWI Postdoctoral Fellow
Adam Warnock
Web Strategist II
Marie Wilson
Education and Outreach Coordinator
Kaelin Wincek
CIROH Administrative Assistant I
AWI Student Employees
Riley Baird
AWI Multimedia Intern
Zoe Falkenberg
CIROH Communications Intern
Ashley Villegas
Education & Outreach Intern
CIROH Employees
Sagy Cohen
Deputy Director, CIROHProfessor of Geography
Md Shahabul Alam, Ph.D.
AWI Postdoctoral FellowCIROH Research Scientist
Yun-Jae Choung
Water Node Operations Manager
Josh Cunningham
Software Scientist II
Juzer Dhondia
Physical Scientist
Bhavya Duvvuri, Ph.D.
CIROH Postdoctoral Fellow
Xia Feng
Physical Scientist
Camaron George
Physical Scientist
Rich Gibbs
Geospatial Scientist
Dong Ha Kim, Ph.D.
Physical Scientist
Sifan A. Koriche, Ph.D.
Hydrologic Scientist I
Sonam Lama
Programmer Analyst I
Benjamin Lee, M.S.
Development Operations Engineer
Quinn Lee
Programmer Analyst II
Travis Loof, Ph.D.
Social & Communication Scientist
Alemayehu Midekisa
Geospatial Scientist
Chad Perry
Software Scientist
Dina Sang
Physical Scientist
JunHo Song, Ph.D.
Hydrologic Scientist I
Sai Harsha Vemula
DevOps Engineer
Elliot Wickham, Ph.D.
Hydrologic Scientist I
CONSERVE Employees
Michael McKain, Ph.D
Assistant Director of Future Ecologies
Katrina Ducre
CONSERVE Research Program Coordinator
Ellis Halgren
Public Land Corps Intern
Parker King
Graduate Research Assistant
Ekaterina Menkina
Graduate Research Assistant
Anthony Vedral
CONSERVE Sea Grant Research Coordinator
GWSC Employees
Kate Brauman, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, GWSC
Hobson Bryan
Associate Director for Technology, GWSC
Penny Beames
Contractor
LaCrecia Brown
Program Coordinator
Emma Dyson
Cartographer
Zach Goodwin
Cartographer
Kaitlin Kimmel-Hass, Ph.D.
Environmental Data Scientist
Misty Mathews
Chief of StaffStrategic Operations Program Manager.
Penelope Mitchell, Ph.D.
Human-Environmental Analyst
Ally-Anna Outlaw
Communications Specialist I
Erin Menzies Pluer, Ph.D.
Environmental Data Scientist
Nicholas Roberge
Senior Geospatial Intelligence Analyst
Caily Schwartz, Ph.D.
Human-Environmental Analyst