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…
Equipment, proposals and publications are critical tools for ensuring successful research at The University of Alabama. The Alabama Water Institute recently awarded $144,451.50 in multiple grants to AWI-affiliated faculty members to support their water-related research efforts. The AWI has provided the following funds to five researchers through the institute’s Equipment Support Program: Dr. Gregory Starr,…
The University of Alabama recently hosted “Multiple Inequalities in Every Meal: Theorizing Intersectional Foodways, Past and Present.” This interdisciplinary workshop assembled an international panel of food scholars from archaeology, cultural anthropology, American studies, women’s studies and African American studies to engage in discourse about the ways inequality was manufactured and maintained in the past and…
Research from The University of Alabama reveals the southern United States is a primary hotspot for hydroplaning due to extreme rainfall, a phenomenon that is known to elevate the risks of road accidents. A study recently published by Kaustubh Anil Salvi, a postdoctoral researcher with the Alabama Transportation Institute, and Dr. Mukesh Kumar, associate professor of civil, construction and…
The creation of a new machine learning tutorial based on a national snow model from researchers at The University of Alabama and the University of Utah has been funded by a grant from the Earth Science Information Partners. Dr. Ryan Johnson, an artificial intelligence research scientist at the Alabama Water Institute, and his collaborator, Dane Liljestrand,…
The University of Alabama’s Global Water Security Center has been recognized in the new U.S. Government Global Water Strategy. The strategy, which aligns federal efforts to address global water challenges, includes U.S. government agency-specific plans. The Department of Defense will address “Strategic Objective 4: Anticipate and Reduce Conflict and Fragility Related to Water” with support…
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