The University of Alabama’s Young Water Professionals organization has been selected as the 2022 Water Environment Federation Student Chapter of the Year. It’s the first time the federation has awarded the honor to an entire student group. “It brings recognition and legitimacy to the group because we’ve only been around since 2020,” said Melanie Vines,…
The Alabama Water Institute has selected three faculty members from The University of Alabama to serve as 2022-25 fellows in the AWI Faculty Fellowship Program. The program recognizes UA faculty for outstanding research, extension and education programs that significantly advance UA’s interdisciplinary water-related communities of science. The 2022 Early Career AWI Faculty Fellows include: The…
The University of Alabama has been awarded $3 million from the National Science Foundation to establish a unique hydrologic science research and training program for graduate students. The NSF Research Traineeship award, or NRT, will bring together master’s and Ph.D. students from a variety of water disciplines. UA’s new project, called Water-R2O, will start them…
The Alabama Water Institute has named Zachary Krauss as its new Director of Research to Operations Communications at The University of Alabama. As director, Krauss is responsible for being the lead scientific communicator and continuing to build the institute’s brand. “When I think about world-class research institutions, I think about how they have been successful…
A collaborative groundwater research effort led by researchers at The University of Alabama has been awarded $600,000 in supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation. The new funds will augment the Integrated Groundwater Management project, a $6 million, 4-year, Track-2 EPSCoR effort with investigators at Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University. They will also support a postdoctoral…
Equipment, proposals and publications are critical tools for ensuring successful research at The University of Alabama. The Alabama Water Institute recently awarded $198,501.44 in multiple grants to AWI-affiliated faculty members to support their water-related research efforts. The AWI has provided the following funds to eight researchers through the institute’s Equipment Support Program: Dr. Hamid Moradkhani,…
To address the growing necessity for high-quality software in research, The University of Alabama recently hired Dr. Karnesh Jain as UA’s first research software engineer. A research software engineer, or RSE, can develop software related to domain-specific research, such as science, engineering, digital humanities, computational simulations, artificial intelligence and machine learning. They can work with…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded funding for climate science and community resilience projects involving researchers from The University of Alabama, Sea Grant programs and universities around the Southeast. NOAA’s Climate Program Office recently announced more than $171 million to support projects aimed at improving U.S. climate challenges. The agency’s newly launched Adaptation…
Dr. Kate Brauman will join the Global Water Security Center (GWSC) as the associate director for analysis and communications effective Nov.1. Brauman is a 2020-22 Water and Climate Resilience Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense through a science technology policy fellowship with the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Brauman’s research quantifies and…
A new equipment grant will allow University of Alabama researchers at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab to improve their ability to forecast harmful algal blooms in Mobile Bay. The Gulf Coast Ocean Observing System has awarded $457,000 to Dr. Kenneth Hoadley for the purchase and maintenance of two Imaging FlowCytobots, or IFCBs, and for personnel.…
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