About me

I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Indiana University in 1989 working in the lab of Dr. Don Whitehead. I trained as a postdoctoral associate with Dr. Gene Likens at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. In 1993, I obtained a faculty position at the University of Louisville where I was promoted and given tenure in 1999. While at Louisville, I served as the director of the Center for Watershed Research for the Kentucky Institute of the Environment and Sustainable Development. In 1996, I received a Fulbright Scholarship to Lithuania, where I was a senior research fellow of the Center for Systems Analyses at Klaipeda University. I received a Gledden Fellowship in 2002, which allowed me to spend a sabbatical at the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia. In 2004, I joined the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University where I have a joint appointment in the Department of Biology and the Center for Environmental Studies. My recruitment at VCU is part of an effort to build a program in river biology at the Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences.