Anderson, Elizabeth – Ph.D. Ecology, 2004
Ph.D. Dissertation: Ecological and social implications of hydropower development on a neotropical river system, Costa Rica.
Current Position: Deputy Director of the Global Water for Sustainability Program, Florida International University.  Conservation Sustainability Director at The Field Museum in Chicago

Since 2005, Elizabeth has been working under a USAID-sponsored initiative to promote more integrated water resources management worldwide.  She is based in the Department of Environmental Studies at Florida International University in Miami, but is also involved in providing technical and scientific support to water conservation and management projects in South America (Ecuador/Peru), East Africa (Tanzania/Kenya), and India.  For more information, please visit: http://www.globalwaters.net/

Recently, Mrs. Anderson was made Conservation Sustainability Director at The Field Museum in Chicago and will be working towards implementing conservation recommendations, with a focus on rapid biological inventories initiatives in South America.

Current research is focused on examining the biogeochemical consequences of a large-scale wetland restoration project in the Coastal Plains of NC. For more information see:
http://www.biology.duke.edu/bernhardtlab/people/ardon.html

After receiving her M.S. degree in Conservation Ecology from UGA, Baer worked for the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, the Center for Progressive Reform, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.  She then received a law degree from the University of Maryland and now works with American Rivers as their Advocacy Director.  For more information see: http://www.americanrivers.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AR7_bio_Baer

Benstead, Jonathan - Ph.D. Ecology, 2000
Ph.D. Dissertation: Stream community and ecosystem responses to deforestation in eastern Madagascar.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Aquatic Biology Program, University of Alabama

Current research is focused on establishing linkages among populations, communities and ecosystem-level parameters in streams and rivers, with an integral study on aquatic vertebrates, namely fish.  For more information, please visit: http://www.as.ua.edu/biology/benstead.htm

Crook, Kelly – M.S. Ecology, 2005
M.S. Thesis: Quantifying the effects of water withdrawal on streams draining the Caribbean National Forest, Puerto Rico.
Current Position: High School Teacher

Currently teaching high school biology in Grapevine, TX.

DeVivo, Joe - M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1996; Pringle co-chair with Gene Helfman
M.S. Thesis: Fish assemblages as indicators of water quality within the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River basin.
Current Position: Program Coordinator, Southeast Coast Inventory & Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Atlanta, GA

Currently designing and implementing long-term ecological monitoring program for seventeen National Park Service units in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.  For more information, please visit: http://www1.nature.nps.gov/im/units/secn/

Dye, Susan - M.S. Ecology, 2005
M.S. Thesis: Top-down and bottom-up forces in an Appalachian stream: Can consumers differentially mediate effects of nutrient loading on algae?
Current Position: Research Coordinator

Upon graduation, Susan worked as research coordinator for Dr. Amy Rosemond at the Institute of Ecology at UGA.  She oversaw a long-term nutrient addition experiment at the Coweeta LTER site in the southern Appalachians, and developed methods to determine algal community composition using HPLC analysis of pigments.  She currently works for the Environmental Protection Agency in Athens, GA.

Greathouse, Effie – Ph.D. Ecology, 2005
Ph.D. Dissertation: Large dams and migratory biota affect tropical stream ecosystems at different scales in Puerto Rico
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, EPA

Currently undergoing postdoctoral research under the direction of Dr. Jana Compton at EPA's National Health & Environmental Effects Laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon. Research is focused towards relating landscape characteristics to stream nutrients in the Oregon Coast Range.

Gregory, Brian - M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1997
M.S. Thesis: Use of benthic macroinvertebrates to assess the effectiveness of riparian buffer zones on intermittent streams in the southeastern USA.
Current Position: Aquatic Ecologist at USGS

Currently working at the USGS in Atlanta, GA with the NAWQA Program with importance on issues related to how urbanization effects stream ecosystems in the GA Piedmont as well as nationally, how nutrient and agricultural effects coastal plain streams in the SE, and how hydrologic alteration effects fish communities in the Tennesse River Drainage.

Hellmer-Powell, Natalie – M.S. Ecology, 2001
M.S. Thesis: The role of crayfish in leaf decomposition across a leaf litter quality gradient.
Current Position: Working at EPIC, a medical software company in Madison, Wisconsin

Current Implementer/Project Manager Outpatient EMR Team and is Co-Chair of Environmental Task Force for the Madison Christian Community.

Hiers, Stephanie D. - M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, 2000; Pringle co-chair with Dr. Steve Golladay
M.S. Thesis: Assessing impacts of animal agriculture on macroinvertebrates in intermittent coastal plain streams in the southeastern USA: Implications for biomonitioring.
Current Position: Environmental Scientist with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Currently serves as an aquatic Ecologist and endangered species Biologist, technical lead for Environmental Assessments (EA), Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), Biological Assessments (BA), and various other assessment documents related to potential impacts in aquatic, terrestrial, and marine habitats in the Southeast, particularly in FL and GA.

Kominoski, John – Ph.D. Ecology, 2008
Ph.D. Dissertation: Linking resource and consumer diversity to ecosystem function in a detritus-based watershed
Current Position - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Current research under the direction of Dr. John Richardson examines the effects of selective forest harvesting on stream and riparian food webs.  For more information, please visit: http://jkominoski.googlepages.com

When she first graduated with her MS from the CESD program, Tina became the statewide manager of the Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program for the state of Alabama.

March, James - Ph.D. Ecology, 2000
Ph.D. Dissertation: The role of freshwater shrimps: patterns and processes along a tropical stream continuum, Puerto Rico.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

For more information, please visit: http://www.washjeff.edu/users/jmarch/

Currently works for the Florida government focusing on climate change issues.

Pohlman, Scott - M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1998
M.S. Thesis: Towards implementation of community-led conservation in lowland rainforest: The WATER-FOR-LIFE program in Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica.
Current Position: Natural Resource Planning and Conservation, Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Currently a senior staff scientist for the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

• Rabeson, Pascal - M.S. Ecology, 2000
M.S. Thesis: Composition and temporal emergence of aquatic insects in the Mariavaratra stream at the Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Current Position: Field Coordinator of the Insects and Spiders Survey, National Museum of Insects, Madagascar.

Ramirez, Alonso - M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1997; Ph.D. Ecology, 2000
M.S. Thesis: Structure, function and production of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in lowland tropical streams, Costa Rica.
Ph.D. Dissertation: Control of benthic assemblages in detritus-based tropical streams.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico, and Scientific Director of El Verde Field Station.

Currently working on the ecology of tropical aquatic ecosystems with emphasis on aquatic insects and the role they play in ecosystem processes as well as the taxonomy and systematic of aquatic insects with emphasis on immature stages or larvae.

Upon completing her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia, Kate received a prestigious Croasdale Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth University.  Kate currently worked for the Environmental Protection Agency.

• Stallcup, Lindsay - M.S. Ecology, 2004
M.S. Thesis: Effects of water chemistry and leaf species on leaf breakdown in neotropical headwater streams.

Vargas, Rodney - M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1995
M.S. Thesis: History of municipal water resources in Puerto Viejo, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica: A socio-political perspective.
Current Position: Assistant Director for Latin America, Africa and the Middle East

Currently working in the Study Abroad Office at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as Assistant Director for Latin America, Africa and the Middle East as well as program management and development for Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East and Africa.

Wenger, Seth - M.S. Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1999; Ph.D. Ecology, 2006
M.S. Thesis: Developing science-based riparian buffer protection policies.
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher

Currently working at the UGA River Basin Center focusing on applied ecological research and environmental policy development.  For more information, please visit: http://www.rivercenter.uga.edu/people/ecologists.htm#sw

Bixby, Rebecca - Ph.D. - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico

Dr. Bixby's research interests focus on diatom biodiversity and how it relates to ecological and evolutionary processes. She is currently funded by the National Science Foundation's International Research Fellowship Program and the Americas Program to examine the biodiversity and landscape patterns of algae in lowland, neotropical streams in Costa Rica.

Hamazaki, Toshihide - Ph.D. - Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia.
Current position: Biometrician, Alaska. Department of Fish and Game.

Rosemond, Amy - Ph.D. -Vanderbilt University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Odum School of Ecology