OUC & AU Research
Collaborations

Project Title – PI/CO-PI

• Markers and genes for sex determination in Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
  AU PI – John Liu
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Qi Li
• Forecasting the Ecological Health of Coastal Waters in Alabama and China
  AU PI – Alan E. Wilson
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Sun Dajiang
• Altering the Desaturase Pathway with Multiple Transgenes to Elevate Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Catfish
  AU PI – Rex A. Dunham
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Zhenkui Qin
• Enhancing fish nutrition, growth performance and disease resistance using a synbiotic approach
  AU PI – Jeffery Terhune
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Wenbing Zhang
• Genetic resources for Ark Shell bivalves: An evolutionary perspective on aquaculture resources.
  AU PI – Kenneth M. Halanych
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Lingfeng Kong
• Assessing impacts of climate change and human activity on ecosystems and fishery resources along the eastern coast of China and US by using an integrated terrestrial-coastal ocean observation and modeling framework
  AU PI – Shufen Pan
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Yongjun Tian
• Evaluation of microbial communities in aquaculture systems by using metagenomics approaches
  AU PI – Luxin Wang
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Xiangli Tian
• Comprehensive Energy Harvesting and Nutrients Recovery from Animal Wastes using Integrated Biological-Electrochemical System
  AU PI – Yi Wang
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Liang Guo

• Preparation of pVAA, pOmpK and pHsp33 vaccine candidates against Vibrio anguillarum and evaluation of their immune protection in flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)
  AU PI – Chengming Wang
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Jing Xing
• Cytochrome P450-Mediated Detoxification in Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
  AU PI – Nannan Liu
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Shikai Liu
• Potential Utility of Neural Melanocortin Receptor Ligands for Improved Feeding
  and Feed Utilization in Three Economically Important Fishes
  AU PI – Ya-Xiong Tao
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Haishen Wen, Yun Li
• Comprehensive Energy Harvesting and Nutrients Recovery from Mariculture Wastes using Integrated Biological-Electrochemical System
  AU PI – Yi Wang, Dong-Joo Kim
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Liang Guo
• Altering the Desaturase Pathway with multiple Transgenes to Elevate Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Catfish-Year 2
  AU PI – Rex A. Dunham, Yi Wang, Max R. Bangs
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Zhenkui Qin
• Epigenetic regulation of sex-determination of Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
  AU PI – Charles Chen, John Liu
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Qi Li, Hong Yu
• Identifying potential accumulation hotspots of heavy metals in dynamic estuarine systems in Alabama, USA and China
  AU PI – Matthew N. Waters, Xing Fang
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Jinfen Pan, Min Wang
• Enhancing redox mediated reactions during anaerobic digestion using biochar: role of exoelectrogens
  AU PI – Sushil Adhikari, Saravanan Ramiah Shanmugam
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Xiaochong Shi
• Understanding and Quantifying Blue Carbon Dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Aquaculture and Coastal Ecosystem
  AU PI – Hanqin Tian
  OUC PI/CO-PI – Qinfeng Gao

• Enhancing nitrogen removal in saline submerged fixed bed bioreactor coupled microbial fuel cells treating maricultural effluents
  OUC-PI – Xiefa Song
  AU-PI – Brendan Higgins
• Development of an Essential Amino Acid Model for Litopenaeus vannamei
  OUC-PI/CO-PI – Gen He / Xuan Wang
  AU-PI – Allen Davis,Luke Roy
• Altering the Desaturase Pathway with Multiple Transgenes to Elevate Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Catfish – Year 3
  OUC-PI – Zhenkui Qin
  AU-PI – Rex A. Dunham,Yi Wang, Baofeng Su
• Elucidating the causes and controls of off-flavor episodes in aquaculture in China and the southeastern US
  OUC-PI – Li Li
  AU-PI – Alan E. Wilson
• Quantifying Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Chinese Aquaculture Systems
  OUC-PI – Qinfeng Gao
  AU-PI – Hanqin Tian
• Efficient Mariculture Waste Treatment and Bioenergy/Bioproduct Recovery using the Metabolically Enhanced Bacterial-Algal Coupling System
  OUC-PI – Liang Guo
  AU-PI – Yi Wang
• Linking Watershed Nutrient Loads to Laizhou Bay Water Quality Indicators:
  OUC-PI – Yang Liu
  AU-PI – Latif Kalin
• Regulation of CYP450-mediated detoxification in the Pacific oyster by the GPCR/Gαs/AC/cAMP/PKA signaling cascade
  OUC-PI – Shikai Liu
  AU-PI – Nannan Liu
• Regulatory Mechanisms of DNA Methylation in Fish Sperm
  OUC-PI – Feng He
  AU-PI – Ian A.E. Butts

• DR. MUYAN CHEN – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: chenmuyan@ouc.edu.cn or chenmuyan@gmail.com

  Research Interests:

  Molecular mechanisms underlying marine invertebrates stress physiology. Specific interests include molecular mechanisms regulating environmentally-induced aestivation-arousal cycle in sea cucumbers.

• DR. SHUANGLIN DONG – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: dongs1@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Dong’s research work focuses on aquaculture ecology. Examples of his past projects include application of aquaculture technology in saline-alkaline ponds and application of clean and efficient technology in mariculture pond. His current research is on ecological intensification of aquaculture systems and offshore fish farming.

• DR. QINFENG GAO – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  Email: qfgao@ouc.edu.cn or kqfgao@163.com

  Research Interests:

  Aquaculture ecology and health aquaculture, especially stable isotope ecology in aquaculture waters, including food sources of economic aquaculture species, food web analysis of aquaculture ecosystems and associated matter recycling and nutrient dynamics.

• DR. SHAN HONG-WEI – LECTURER 

  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: shanhongwei@ouc.edu.cn or 3306245@163.com

  Research Interests:

  Research focuses on the development and management of culturing technique in crustacean; and development and application of probiotics in aquatic animals. Species of interest include: Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), Chinese shrimp (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) and Swimming crab.

• DR. LINGFENG KONG – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  FISHERIES COLLEGE

  Email: klfaly@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Dr. Kong’s research emphasizes the combining of data from morphology and genetic to study taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of diversity in marine mollusks, especially those from the northwestern Pacific.

• DR. AIFENG LI – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  Email: lafouc@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Monitoring technology and purification method for shellfish toxins (marine algal toxins); Metabolomics of shellfish toxins; Biological and ecological effects of marine algal toxins on ecosystem.

• DR. YING, LIANG – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES; DEPARTMENT OF AQUACULTURE

  Email: yliang@ouc.edu.cn or 13969785500@126.com

  Research Interests:

  Biology, physiology and biochemistry of microalgae. Including collection, isolation, classification, preservation techniques of microalgae. Breeding of excellent microalgal strains rich in active ingredients. Application of chlorophyll fluorescence technique in microalgal environmental stress.

• DR. LI LI- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: l_li@ouc.edu.cn or 86lily@163.com

  Research Interests:

  Research has focused on water quality management and wastewater treatment in aquaculture. Current research involves ammonia transformation process in various aquaculture systems.

• DR. YUN LI- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 

  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: yunli0116@ouc.edu.cn/ or yzl0070@tigermail.auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Fish genetics and genomics, fish physiology and breeding.

• DR. QUN LIU- PROFESSOR 
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: qunliu@ouc.edu.cn 

  Research Interests:

  Fishery Resources,  Fish population dynamics

• DR. JINGJING MIAO – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 

  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: jmiao@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Research interests include the neuroendocrine physiology of marine bivalves and the toxicology and endocrine disruption of contaminants on marine molluscs.

• DR. JIN-FEN PAN – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  Email: fpan@ouc.edu.cn or jinfpan@gmail.com 

  Research Interests:

  Coastal and Estuarine Ecotoxicology and pollutant biogeochemistry;

  Field research concerns the biological and ecological effects/impact of pollutants (metals, nanomaterials, and persistent organic pollutants) to aquatic organisms (algae, annelids, mollusks), by examining the subcellular responses to effects at higher levels of biological organization; Understanding the covariance or interrelationship between the ecological and (eco)toxicological responses; Pollutant biogeochemistry (bioavailability, environmental distribution and transportation) in the coastal and estuarine environment.

• DR. LUIQING PAN – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: panlq@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Environmental physiology of shrimp and crab; Ecological immunology and stress physiology of aquatic animals; Toxicology and endocrine disruption of contaminants on mollusk; Technology for seafood safety and quality assessment

• DR. CHANGSHENG PENG – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  Email: cspeng@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Water quality & environmental science. Specific topics include seawater desalination with new energy; preparation of reactive adsorbent and its application in wastewater treatment; Remediation of polluted soil and groundwater.

• DR. HUI PENG – LECTURER
  COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  Email: pengh@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Anthropogenic activity and climate change influence on nutrients inputs to the sea from continent (e.g. Bohai sea); Analysis of anthropogenic activity and climate change influence on nutrient inputs by vegetation dynamic model and regional climate model.

• DR. XIANGLI TIAN – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: xianglitian@ouc.edu.cn or xiangli.tian@163.com

  Research Interests:

  Aquaculture Ecology and Aquatic Microbial Ecology. For aquaculture ecology, my research has an emphasis on the optimization of structure and function and management for aquaculture ecosystems. And structure and function of microbial community in aquaculture ecosystems, application of probiotics in aquaculture is my research field in recent years.

• DR. FANG WANG – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES; DEPARTMENT OF AQUACULTURE

  Email: wangfang249@ouc.edu.cn or wangfang249@163.com

  Research Interests:

  Research focuses on aquaculture ecology, especially on Ecology and Physiology and Behavior characteristics in crustacean and water environment regulation of culture ponds. My research has an emphasis on the effects of water environment factors fluctuation on the growth of shrimp and the ecological function of the benthonic culture organisms in polyculture systems

• DR. XINXIN WANG- LECTURER
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: wxinxin@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Numerical simulation; Hydrodynamic characteristics of Aquaculture Facilities, such as fish cage, submersible raft and trawl net; Fluid characteristics of artificial reef, fish cage, raft and stranded ropes.

• DR. XIAOHONG YAO – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  Email: xhyao@ouc.edu.cn 

  Research Interests:

  Nitrogen cycle in marine aquaculture environment, especially on ammonia and amines which may release into marine atmospheres and affect secondary aerosol formation.

• DR. KAI YOU – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 

  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES; DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIO-RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

  Email: youkai@ouc.edu.cn or youkai77@hotmail.com

  Research Interests:

  Phytoplankton ecology, Harmful algal blooms and Eco-assessment in coastal waters for aquaculture, engineering and recreational activities. Isolation, culturing and experimental autoecology of dominant and key species in planktonic ecosysytems. Science popularization and technical service on marine planktology.

• DR. ZHEN YU – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

  Email: zhenyu@ouc.edu.cn or forestzhen@gmail.com

  Research Interests:

  Molecular ecology of marine plankton and microorganisms, focusing on molecular identification and detection of microalgae and jellyfish, plankton diversity and community structure and molecular, biochemical, and ecological aspects of the microbial geochemical cycling of nitrogen and other elements in the estuarine ecosystems.

• DR. WENBING ZHANG – PROFESSOR & VICE DEAN 

  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES; DEPARTMENT OF AQUACULTURE

  Email: wzhang@ouc.edu.cn or wzhang2012@126.com

  Research Interests:

  Aquaculture nutrition and feeds, especially in dietary alternative protein sources, immuno-stimulants, enhancement of health and quality of aquaculture animals by balanced nutrition.

• DR. XIAODONG ZHENG – PROFESSOR  
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES; DEPARTMENT OF AQUACULTURE

  Email: xdzheng@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Cephalopod genetic diversity and evolutionary biology; Breeding of cephalopods

• DR. YANGEN ZHOU – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR  

  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES

  Email: zhouyg@ouc.edu.cn

  Research Interests:

  Research focuses on the development and management of aquatic animal ecology-nutrition. Current interests include understanding of technique and model development of culturing cold water fish species in yellow sea. Species of interest include Rainbow trout, Atlantic Salmon, and Pacific white shrimp.

• DR. YUGUI ZHU – LECTURER 
  COLLEGE OF FISHERIES, DEPARTMENT OF MARINE FISHERIES

  Email: zhuyugui@ouc.edu.cn or zhuyugui66@aliyun.com

  Research Interests:

  Fishery/marine economics and management. Specific research directions include: shellfish industry economy and policy, fisheries administrative management and fishing port inspection, law of the sea and fisheries, and marine ecological economy and comprehensive marine management.

• DR. ARTHUR G. APPEL – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY

  Email: appelag@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Environmental physiology and behavior of invertebrates, including arthropods and mollusks, and vertebrates, including amphibians and reptiles. Research includes respiration and energetics, heat stress, effects of acclimation and acclimatization, energy budgets, and physiological effects of sublethal exposure to insecticides and other toxicants.

• DR. CLAUDE BOYD – VISITING PROFESSOR,
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: boydce1@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Water quality in “split-ponds” for channel catfish production; solubility of liming materials used in aquaculture; effects of mechanical aeration on evaporation and water temperature in ponds; survey of water quality; assessment of indicators of sustainable shrimp farming; and use of elemental fingerprinting to determine the geographic origin of farmed shrimp.

• DR. EVE BRANTLEY – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; DEPARTMENT OF CROP, SOIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

  Email: brantef@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Water quality; watershed management; applied research on innovative practices to better understand and influence the adoption of management practices that protect, enhance, or restore stream functions.

• DR. STEPHEN (ASH) BULLARD – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: ash.bullard@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Aquaculture science: diseases of aquatic animals. Fisheries: Ecosystem science, pathogen diversity, biodiversity. Climate change: anthropogenic change to aquatic ecosystems and aquatic animal health. Water quality: performance and health of aquatic animals.

• DR. PHILIP CHANEY – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

  Email: chanepl@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Spatial distribution of aquaculture farm ponds and sustainable land use (land to water ratio) practices.

• DR. WILLIAM (BILL) DANIELS – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: daniewh@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  General research areas include marine and freshwater aquaculture production, e.g., channel catfish, red drum, tilapia, hybrid striped bass, freshwater prawns, and crayfish, and pond production, hatchery management and closed, recirculating systems. Specific areas of research include physiology and nutrition of crustaceans and fish, reproductive biology of crayfish and freshwater prawns, and probiotics.

• DR. D. ALLEN DAVIS – ALUMNI PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: davisda@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Aquatic Animal Nutrition or warm water fish and shrimp.

• DR. DENNIS DEVRIES – PROFESSOR AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR RESEARCH PROGRAMS
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: devridr@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Aquatic ecology and conservation ecology of rare/endangered species. More specifically, relative to ecological perspectives, I am interested in how fish communities are structured by abiotic and biotic processes.  I work in lakes and reservoirs, streams, ponds, and even in coastal and near shore areas in the Gulf of Mexico. My work has involved all life stages of fishes, from larval to juvenile to adult, as well as food web interactions involving the entire aquatic food web.

• DR. EDUARDUS DUIN – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

  Email: duinedu@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Characterization of the key enzymes in methanogenesis and anaerobic methane oxidation: Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (Mcr) and heterodisulfide reductase (Hdr). Hdr is an example of an enzyme that uses electron bifurcation for the generation of low-potential electrons and Mcr catalyzes the reversible conversion of methane. The research will provide important insight into how to slow down livestock methane production and production in rice fields, which contributes to climate change due to the fact that methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Both enzyme are also essential in schemes for methane to biofuel conversion.

• DR. REX DUNHAM – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: dunhara@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Aquaculture Genetics, Selection, Quantitative Genetics, Genetic Engineering, Gene Editing, Xengenesis, Genomics, Population Genetics, Reproduction, Hybridization.

• DR. KENNETH M. HALANYCH – SCHNELLER ENDOWED CHAIR & PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

  Email: ken@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Marine invertebrate evolution, genomics in marine systems, phylogeography and phylogeny.

• DR. BRENDAN HIGGINS – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR,
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

  Email: bth0023@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Organism interaction at the molecular level among algae and bacteria for wastewater treatment and nutrient removal; water quality analysis through analytical chemistry techniques: reverse phase and ion chromatography and mass spectrometry; metagenomics and metabolomics techniques for characterizing microbial populations in water.

• DR. LATIF KALIN – PROFESSOR,
  ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AT THE URBAN-RURAL INTERFACE
  SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE SCIENCES

  Email: latif@auburn.edu
  

  Research Interests:

  Kalin is a hydrologist studying climate and land use change impacts on water quality and quantity at multiple scales, varying from field scale to large watersheds. He also studies hydrology and nutrient cycles in wetlands through modeling, especially with the physically based model WetQual, recently developed by his research group.

• DR. DAVID KING – PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

  Email: kingdat@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Earth history and climate change; Geological history of climate change in the sedimentary record of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and other areas globally.

• DR. THORSTEN J. KNAPPENBERGER – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; DEPARTMENT OF CROP, SOIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

  Email: tjk0013@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Transport processes in soils and sediments; Irrigation efficiency and timing; Contaminant transport in soils; Soil colloid transport; Soil Tillage; Spatial and Temporal Statistics; Stormwater remediation

• DR. MING-KUO LEE – ROBERT B. COOK ENDOWED PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

  Email: leeming@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Dr. Lee’s research spans many areas in hydrogeology and environmental geochemistry. Lee and collaborators have written and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in the general areas of water resources research.  Active research involves: (1) groundwater geochemistry and microbiology; (2) oil spills and remediation; (3) climate change and water resources; (4) in situ bioremediation of metals-contaminated groundwater; and (5) basin hydrology and geochemical modeling.

• DR. MARK LILES – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

  Email: lilesma@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Pathogenesis of Aeromonas hydrophila in warm water fish species (catfish, carp, tilapia), including the use of comparative genomics, targeted genetic deletions and aquaria models of disease; Disease control in aquaculture using specific probiotic bacterial strains amended to feed; and Use of an attenuated Aeromonas hydrophila as a vaccine, with studies using aquaria and production pond models and investigating different vaccine delivery methods.

• DR. JOHN LIU – PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE PROVOST
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: liuzhan@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics. QTL analysis of performance traits, genome and transcriptome analysis.

• DR. RUSSELL MUNTIFERING – PROFESSOR,
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL SCIENCES

  Email: muntirb@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Animal nutrition; Ecotoxicology of tropospheric ozone and reactive nitrogen in natural and agro-ecosystems; Impacts of anthropogenic activity and climate change on productivity and nutrient composition of herbaceous vegetation.

• DR. SUSAN (SHUFEN) PAN – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR, GIS AND REMOTE SENSING LABORATORY INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH, SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE SCIENCES

  Email: panshuf@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing Applications in Natural Resources and Environment; Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human Systems; Food-Energy-Water Nexus; Climate Change Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation in coastal and agricultural ecosystems.

• DR. STEPHANIE L. SHEPHERD – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

  Email: slshepherd@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  River processes with a focus on geomorphic response to anthropogenic and environmental impacts.  Uses a combination of field observation, topographic analysis, and GIS to investigate river systems at a range of temporal and spatial scales.

• DR. MARK STELTENPOHL – PROFESSOR AND CHAIR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

  Email: steltmg@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  The tectonic evolution of continental crust within collapsed-and-extended collisional mountain systems, particularly the Appalachian-Caledonian chain. He uses U-Pb and 40Ar-39Ar isotopic dating methods and maintains active research in the southernmost Appalachians, U.S.A., and in the northernmost Caledonides of artic Norway.

• DR. JIM STOECKEL – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: jas0018@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Freshwater invertebrates, especially crayfish and freshwater mussels — Conservation ecology, population ecology, thermal and dissolved oxygen requirements, ecotoxicology, invasive species, aquaculture.

• DR. SANG-JIN SUH – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

  Email: suhsang@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Molecular mechanisms of stress response and pathogenesis of human pathogens; realtime detection of foodborne pathogens; antimicrobial discovery; genetic and metabolic engineering of bacteria for value-added products.

• DR. DI TIAN – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR,
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF CROP, SOIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

  Email: tiandi@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Climate model forecast evaluations and applications to crop and water management; downscaling global climate model forecasts; assessment of climate impacts on agricultural and hydrological systems; evapotranspiration and drought monitoring and forecasting.

• DR. HANQIN TIAN – SOLON & MARTHA DIXON PROFESSOR,
  DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH
  SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE SCIENCES

  Email: tianhan@auburn.edu 

  Research Interests:

  Climate change impact, adaptation and mitigation; Integrated assessment of global environmental change; Land–ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ).

• DR. ASHRAF UDDIN – PROFESSOR AND GRADUATE PROGRAM OFFICER
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

  Email: uddinas@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Sedimentary geology and basin analysis of foreland basins and continental margins; ;  petrofacies and detrital geochronology of foreland basin sediments to decipher history of orogenic unroofing, detrital routing in sedimentary basins, environments of sediment deposition; sedimentology and mineralogy of contaminant aquifer sediments both on land and coasts; petroleum source rock evaluations.

• DR. YI WANG – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; DEPARTMENT OF BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

  Email: yiwang3@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Microbial metabolic engineering and synthetic biology/biotechnology, specifically fishery pathogen control with CRISPR/Cas9 system as an innovative antibacterial approach; environmental molecular biology including microbial genomics, genetics and transcriptomics; environmental bioremediation, biodegradation and biotransformation of emerging environmental contaminants; water pollution control including wastewater treatment, reclamation and reuse using both biological and physicochemical approaches.

• DR. MATTHEW WATERS – ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; DEPARTMENT OF CROP, SOIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

  Email: mnw0018@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Water’s lab investigates human impacts and environmental stressors on aquatic ecosystems (lakes, reservoirs, large rivers).  We collect sediment cores from depositional areas and reconstruct organic matter and nutrient inputs as well as biology responses of primary producers through photosynthetic pigment measurements.  Specifically, my research focuses on the topics of eutrophication, cyanobacterial toxin production, carbon dynamics, heavy metal storage and primary producer communities.  The aim of my research is to establish the primary drivers of ecosystem change to better manage these systems and forecast future change from human impacts.

• DR. ALAN E. WILSON – ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; SCHOOL OF FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

  Email: wilson@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Water quality, Harmful algal blooms and toxic cyanobacteria, Drinking water, Aquatic Ecology, and Meta-analysis.

• DR. LORRAINE WOLF – PROFESSOR
  COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS; DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES

  Email: wolflor@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Potential field (gravity and magnetic) modeling of basins; earthquake-related hazards; liquefaction and paleoseismology; near-surface geophysical analysis for environmental site characterization.

• DR. YAOQI ZHANG – PROFESSOR
  SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE SCIENCES

  Email: Zhangy3@auburn.edu

  Research Interests:

  Economics and Policy.