Media Contacts

For general Warnell inquiries, please contact Public Relations Coordinator Sandi Martin at (706) 542-2079 or at smartin@warnell.uga.edu.

The Warnell School has many faculty members who are experts on a diverse number of topics. If you know which area of expertise you need comments for, you can contact them directly:

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Robert Bringolf
Contact Bringolf at (706) 542-1477 or rbringolf@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Aquatic toxicology, freshwater mussels, environmental biology of fishes, aquaculture, ecotoxicology

Cecil Jennings
Contact Jennings at (706) 542-4837 or jennings@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: The effects of development and sedimentation on fish populations and fish survivability in rivers and streams, fish ecology, fisheries biology and management, and fish population dynamics, Georgia fisheries and aquaculture

Doug Peterson
Contact Peterson at (706) 583-2944 or dpeterson@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: The reintroduction of native fish species in local rivers and lakes (particularly in Georgia and Michigan), the smallmouth bass fishery in the Beaver Archipelago of northern Lake Michigan, recruitment dynamics of lake sturgeon in Black Lake, and sturgeon aquaculture in Georgia.

James T. Peterson
Contact Peterson at (706) 542-1166 or Peterson@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Fish ecology, Fish sampling and population estimation techniques, Fish population dynamics and quantitative modeling.

James L. Shelton, Jr.
Contact Shelton at (706) 542-3108 or jshelton@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Fisheries, aquaculture, water quality, aquatic weeds, pond management, threatened aquatic species, water quality management in aquaculture, and fisheries biology.

Susan Bennett Wilde
Contact Wilde at (706) 542-3346 or swilde@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: algal taxonomy, aquatic ecology, reservoir limnology, invasive aquatic plants and animals, impacts and management of harmful algal blooms

Richard Winn
Contact Winn at (706) 369-5858 or rwinn@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Using genetically modified or transgenic fish to study how various chemicals and other agents affect natural aquatic ecosystems and, possibly, human health.

Forestry

Pete Bettinger
Contact Bettinger at (706) 542-1187 or pbettinger@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: forest planning, forest management, geographic information systems, forest operations, and global positioning systems. He is also a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Mike Clutter
Contact Dean Clutter at (706) 542-5448, (706) 540-4570 or mclutter@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Timberland investments, land sales, forest policy and taxation.

Kim Coder
Contact Coder at (706) 542-9050 or kcoder@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Tree biology, urban forestry, community trees, tree health care, arboriculture, aboritecture, landscape trees, tree pollen, fall leaf color, drought and trees, lightning and trees, tree biomechanics, tree structure, tree hazards, construction damage and trees, tree appraisal, urban forest ecology, storm damage and trees, and cultural and physiological connection with trees.

Kamal J. Gandhi
Contact Gandhi at (706) 542-4614, (706) 247-4025 or kgandhi@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: forest entomology and forest health and protection issues; patterns of invasion by non-native insects; community ecology; insect-plant interactions; effects of forest disturbances on insects

W. Dale Greene
Contact Greene at (706) 542-6652, (706) 540-2862 (cell) or greene@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of Expertise: Biomass harvesting, timber harvesting, transportation, forest management, logging business

Kris M. Irwin
Contact Irwin at (706) 542-7412 or kirwin@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Instructional design, environmental education, environmental literacy, global service-learning and Peace Corps.

Bob Izlar
Contact Izlar at (706) 542-6819 or bizlar@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Okefenokee, financial engineering, ad valorem taxes, forest business

Ben Jackson
Contact Ben Jackson at (706) 542-9051 or bjackson@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Timber harvesting, wood for energy, forest roads, forest best management practices for water quality, non-timber forest products, and distance education

Scott Merkle
Contact Merkle at (706) 542-6112 or merkle@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: forest biotechnology, genetics, phytoremediation, cell and tissue culture of forest trees, genetic transformation of forest trees, mercury, arsenic, heavy metals, aripidosis, mustard plants, American chestnuts

Bob Teskey
Contact Teskey at (706) 542-5055, (706) 248-8634 or rteskey@uga.edu
Areas of Expertise: Effects of climate change and air pollution on trees and forest ecosystems, effects of environmental stresses on tree growth and forest productivity.

Natural Resources Recreation and Tourism

Gary Green
Contact Green at (706) 542-6556, (706) 296-3029 or ggreen@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Natural resource management, recreation participation and activity trends, and human-dimensions of natural resources.

Michael Tarrant
Contact Tarrant at (706) 583-0901 or tarrant@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Management practices and visitors' actions in recreation and wilderness areas, including assessments of carrying capacities, acceptable behaviors, and crowding. Applications of geographic information systems to understand human - environment relationships and dependencies. Social justice issues in environmental practices on federal lands. Factors influencing environmental values, attitudes, and behaviors of both the recreating and general public, especially as they relate to wildlife conservation and management. The development of technology-based communication techniques used to assess human - environment relationships.

Water and Soils

M. Bruce Beck
Contact Beck at (706) 542-0947, (706) 542-2686 or mbbeck@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Watershed, watershed managment, water resources, water, integrated water resouces management, water quality, environmental modeling, Environmental Informatics, drinking water, water infrastructure, Hurricane Katrina,

C. Rhett Jackson
Contact Rhett Jackson at (706) 542-1772 or rjackson@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: hydrology, land-use change, stormwater management, watershed planning, wetlands, aquatic habitat, hurricane, levee, Hurricane Katrina

Daniel Markewitz
Contact Markewitz at (706) 542-0133 or dmarke@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Water quality, water chemistry, soil chemistry, nutrient runoff, nitrogen, phosphorus, fertilization, soil erosion

Lawrence A. Morris
Contact Morris at (706) 542-2532 or lmorris@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Soil and nutrition management, Forest land utilization of waste and wastewater, and root-soil interactions.

Todd Rasmussen
Contact Rasmussen at (706) 542-4300 or trasmuss@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: surface water, groundwater, water quality, coil physics, numerical modeling and TMDLs

Wildlife

Michael J. Conroy
Contact Conroy at (706) 542-1167 or mconroy@uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Population estimation, sampling, modeling, decision theory, adaptive management

Robert Cooper
Contact Cooper at (706) 542-6066 or rcooper@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Avian ecology, ecosystem management, conservation ecology, and quantitative ecology. He has done several studies related to the decline of songbirds.

Michael T. Mengak
Contact Mengak at (706) 583-8096 or mmengak@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Allegheny woodrat ecology and conservation; nuisance wildlife management; forest management impacts on wildlife populations; ecology of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains.

J. Michael Meyers
Contact Meyers at (706) 542-1882 or jmeyers@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: Migratory birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, endangered species, and their habitats; ecotones of aquatic-terrestrial systems, e.g., bottomland forest-river systems and marsh wetlands-barrier islands, and how proper management (people and habitat) benefits the species; songbird, shorebird decline

Karl V. Miller
Contact Miller at (706) 542-1305 or kmiller@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: white-tailed deer, game management, herbicides, bats, songbirds, forest management, predators, coyotes.

Nathan Nibbelink
Contact Nibbelink at (706) 542-9853 or nate@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: GIS, spatial analysis, species distribution modeling fish ecology, individual-based modeling

Bob Warren
Contact Warren at (706) 542-6474 or warren@warnell.uga.edu
Areas of expertise: The ecology and management of wildlife populations, especially in parks and urban/suburban areas; physiology, nutrition, and genetics in wildlife management; deer fertility control and population management; white-tailed deer, raccoons, bobcats, wild horses, feral hogs.