Participating Faculty and Research Components
Prospective Fellows are encouraged to introduce yourself to faculty members in your area of interest prior to submitting your application. Click on the faculty's name below to get detailed information about their research interests.
Participating Faculty
- Dr. Jonathan Martin, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences.
email: jbmartin@ufl.edu phone: 352-392-6219
Dr. Martin studies processes that control water chemistry in a variety of natural settings, and how the chemical compositions can be used for natural hydrologic tracers. He works on coastal aquifers and the relationship between the composition of submarine groundwater discharge and its effects on estuarine water quality. He is Professor of Geological Sciences and teaches courses in mineralogy, surface water and groundwater interactions, and hydrogeochemistry. More information can be found at
https://people.clas.ufl.edu/jbmartin/.
- Dr. Brent Christner, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science.
email: xner@ufl.edu phone: 352-392-1179
Dr. Christner and his research group are interested in the physiology, ecology, biogeochemistry, and molecular adaptations of microorganisms inhabiting environments of the cryosphere and atmosphere. Using a combination of laboratory and field-based research, we seek to elucidate the novel properties of microorganisms that survive under low extremes of temperature and water/energy availability. More information can be found at:
http://brent.xner.net/
- Dr. Matthew Cohen, Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation.
email: mjc@ufl.edu phone: 352-846-6490
Dr. Cohen is Professor of Forest Water Resources and Watershed Systems. His primary area of research is watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry, with an emphasis on wetland processes. He holds affiliate faculty status in the IFAS Soil and Water Science Department, School of Natural Resources and Environment, and Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida. More information can be found at:
http://sfrc.ifas.ufl.edu/ecohydrology/index.html
- Dr. John Jaeger, Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences.
email: jmjaeger@ufl.edu phone: 352-846-1381
Dr. Jaeger’s research is in the field of sedimentary geology with specific interests in continental margin and marine clastic sedimentology and stratigraphy. His research attempts to understand how changes in Earth’s surface processes, oceans, and tectonics are represented in the formation of clastic strata from coastal and estuarine systems to the deep sea. He focuses on deciphering how the cryosphere (ice sheets, streams, and glaciers) creates sediment and the fidelity of strata to record these processes. More information can be found at:
https://people.clas.ufl.edu/jmjaeger/
- Dr. Jim Jawitz, Professor, Soil and Water Sciences Department.
email: jawitz@ufl.edu phone: 352-294-3141
Dr. Jawitz’s research emphasizes on minimizing human impacts on natural hydrologic ecosystems, including watersheds, wetlands, and aquifers. He develops and applies hydro-ecological models to natural and constructed wetlands and also develops techniques for characterization and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. More information can be found at:
http://www.landscapehydrology.org/
- Dr. Ellen Martin, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences.
email: eemartin@ufl.edu phone: 352-392-2141
Dr. Martin’s research focuses on the use of radiogenic isotopes (Sr, Nd, and Pb) preserved marine sediments to address questions related to paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. She is particularly interested in reconstructing deep ocean circulation patterns on Cenozoic time scales in order to understand the relationship between circulation and climate. An important aspect of this work is the development of new archives as recorders of seawater isotopic ratios. More information can be found at:
http://users.clas.ufl.edu/eemartin/researchpage.html
- Dr. Stuart McDaniel, Associate Professor, Department of Biology.
email: stuartmcdaniel@ufl.edu phone: 352-273-0123
Dr McDaniel’s research aims to understand what forces maintain variation within populations and if similar forces promote divergence among populations. He uses classical genetic and genomic analyses of the moss model system
Ceratodon purpureus. Currently his research focuses on two projects: 1 – the evolutionary causes and consequences of dioecy (ie, having separate males and females); and 2 – the community genomics of moss-associated nitrogen fixation in a changing Arctic. He also maintains an interest in using
Physcomitrella patens as a model for gene function analysis. More information can be found at:
https://mcdaniellab.biology.ufl.edu/research/
- Dr. Elizabeth Screaton, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences.
email: screaton@ufl.edu phone: 352-392-4612
Dr. Screaton’s research combines field work, laboratory work, and numerical modeling to investigate the interrelationship of fluid flow and deformation in subduction zones. Much of the work has been with the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), including drilling legs to investigate the Oregon, Barbados, Nankai, and Costa Rica subduction zones. More information can be found at:
https://people.clas.ufl.edu/screaton/
- Dr. Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment.
email: arnoldo@ufl.edu phone: 352-294-7765
Dr. Valle-Levinson is interested in studying the effects of bathymetry on volume exchange at the mouth of semienclosed basins, with emphasis on estuaries, fjords, coastal lagoons and bays. He studies bathymetric effects on wind-induced, density-induced and tidally induced exchange processes between semi-enclosed basins and the adjacent coastal ocean. More information can be found at:
https://www.essie.ufl.edu/~arnoldo/arnoldo.html#
Collaborating Faculty (on project team but will not be major advisor to a Fellow)
- Cynthia Barnett, Environmental Fellow in Residence,The Bob Graham Center for Public Service and College of Journalism and Communications.
email: clbarnett@jou.ufl.edu phone: 352-376-4440
Cynthia Barnett is an environmental journalist who has covered water and climate stories worldwide, from the decline in Florida’s signature springs, to epic drought in California and Australia, to the rainiest place on Earth in Cherrapunji, India. She is the author of three books on water, including her latest Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing, and named among the best nonfiction books of 2015 by NPR’s Science Friday, the Boston Globe, the Tampa Bay Times, the Miami Herald and others. More information can be found at:
https://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/cynthia-barnett/
- Dr. Thomas Frazer, Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation. Director, School of Natural Resources and Environment.
email: frazer@ufl.edu phone: 352-392-9230
Dr. Frazer’s research aims to develop and transfer into management a mechanistic understanding of the effects of nutrient enrichment in aquatic systems, with a major focus on spring-fed rivers and associated estuaries along Florida’s central Gulf coast. Achieving these goals involves attaining several inter-related objectives that stem from long-term, large-scale sampling programs implemented by his colleagues and him a decade ago. The patterns documented by these regional programs that regularly sample over 100 stations spanning more than 100 kilometers of coastline provide a spatial and temporal context for designing, implementing and interpreting interdisciplinary experiments that elucidate ecological processes shaping the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. More information can be found at:
http://sfrc.ufl.edu/people/faculty/frazer/
