Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences research

Below are our faculty and their areas of work:

• Dr. Shannon Brewer: disturbance of stream ecosystems; improving riverine samplings; ecology, conservation and management of stream fauna

• Dr. Timothy Bruce: Host-pathogen interactions; nutritional aspects of fishhealth; aquaculture vaccinations; immune response and pathogen susceptibility in up-and-coming fish species with production potential

• Dr. Stephen “Ash” Bullard: aquatic parasitology; taxonomy, systematics, and parasite biology

• Dr. Ian Butts: Applied reproductive physiology; gamete cryopreservation; sexual selection and the evolution of gamete interactions

• Dr. Matt Catalano: population dynamics and fisheries management

• Dr. David Cline: catfish aquaculture; caged fish production; recreational pond management; small-scale marketing; aquatic plant management; aquaculture

• Dr. Allen Davis: stock enhancement technologies; aquaculture

• Dr. Dennis DeVries: threatened and endangered species; bioenergetics; hard part microchemistry; blueback herring in Lewis Smith Lake; non-game riverine fish

• Dr. Rex Dunham: catfish genetics including selective breeding, hybridization, gene transfer, gene mapping and genomics, and reproductive physiology

• Dr. Taryn Garlock: seafood markets; production economics; management of fisheries and aquaculture systems

• Dr. Tham Hoang: chemical and physical characteristics of water, sediments and soils onthe bioavailability and toxicity of contaminants to  aquatic organisms

• Dr. Anika Kelly: transferring technologies and best management practices for disease reduction and prevention

• Dr. Luke Roy: commercial aquaculture; aquaculture production using traditional and alternative production technology; water quality; aquatic animal nutrition

• Dr. Jim Stoeckel: suspended sediments; advection; developmental bottlenecks; invasive species; thermal stress; and agrochemicals in lentic and lotic systems

• Dr. Andrea Tarnecki: Alabama shellfish aquaculture industry, new and emerging shellfish diseases; harmful algal blooms; seafood safety

• Dr. Joseph Tomasso: Stress and environmental physiology of fishes and crustaceans of importance to aquaculture and fisheries

• Dr. P.J. Waters: survival strategies for restoration shellfish; volunteer-based shellfish restoration

• Dr. Nathan Whelan: evolution; phylogenomics; conservation genomics; biodiversity; freshwater conservation

• Dr. Alan Wilson: ecology of freshwater lakes, ponds, and reservoirs; the abiotic and biotic mechanisms mediating the promotion or control of freshwater harmful algal blooms and taste-and-odor events

• Dr. Russell Wright: ecological principles and mechanisms that shape  aquatic communities and ecosystems; small impoundments, larger reservoirs, rivers and estuaries