A cloud-based hydrologic model evaluation software pilot project from the Alabama Water Institute has earned seed funding from the Earth Science Information Partners Lab. Drs. Md. Shahabul Alam and Ryan Johnson from the AWI and Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology and Dr. Dane Lijestrand from the University of Utah were awarded $20,000…
Faculty members and students from The University of Alabama recently attended the 13th Biennial Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society Symposium in Portland, Oregon. The conference was held April 10-14. Matt Lodato, a Ph.D. candidate in UA’s Department of Biological Sciences, won the award for Best Student Platform Presentation. The Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society is dedicated to…
The Alabama Water Institute has selected three faculty members from The University of Alabama to serve as 2023-26 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 2023 Early Career AWI Faculty Fellows include: The…
The Alabama Water Institute is committed to supporting its University of Alabama affiliated faculty members in their needs for equipment, proposals and publications. To assist in their water-related research requirements, the AWI recently awarded $110,341 in multiple grants. The AWI has provided the following funds to seven researchers through the institute’s Equipment Support Program: Dr.…
Represented by the Global Water Security Center, The University of Alabama was one of only 440 organizations including only 80 universities worldwide awarded special accreditation to participate in the 2023 United Nations Water Conference. Mike Gremillion, GWSC director and interim executive director of the Alabama Water Institute, and Dr. Kate Brauman, GWSC associate director for…
A graduate student in The University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. David R. Yannick, from Orlando, Florida, is studying the biogeochemistry of wetlands in his graduate program at UA. He is one of 2,500 NSF Graduate Research Fellows selected for 2023. Yannick’s award is…
A team of 30 scientists, including a group from The University of Alabama, have returned to the waters surrounding Antarctica to better understand the biodiversity of an understudied group of marine invertebrates and how these animals are affected by climate change. The spring 2023 Icy Inverts expedition marks the second time in three years that…
A new National Science Foundation award is helping researchers from The University of Alabama to study what happens to “forever chemicals” once they enter water reuse treatment plants. Dr. Leigh Terry has been awarded $195,000 for the NSF Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4 Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR, Research Fellows project. The award…
Members of the Alabama Water Institute recently attended the 103rd meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Denver, Colorado. This year’s theme was “Data: Driving Science. Informing Decisions. Enriching Humanity.” Data was chosen as the focus as it is the “engine of hypothesis-driven science and the fuel for inductive, empirical investigation.” Dr. Steve Burian, Dr.…
Undergraduate students and researchers at The University of Alabama are making it possible to scan and image the bottom of waterways using light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, mounted on drones fitted with green lasers. Dr. Seongsin Margaret Kim and her students are developing a system to make it faster and more affordable to measure and…
