Judy L. Meyer, Aquatic Ecosystems Dr. Judy Meyer is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. She holds a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Zoology from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. in Ecology from Cornell University. A member of the faculty at UGA since 1977, she is an aquatic ecologist who has published over 125 scientific papers on her research on rivers and streams in Georgia and North Carolina. Her research has focused on ecological processes that maintain water quality, on river and stream food webs, and on the impact of watershed disturbance and riparian zone management on river and stream ecosystems.
Dr. Meyer has served as Vice-president and as President of the Ecological Society of America, the national organization for professional ecologists. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Scientific Society Presidents. Her research received a Creative Research Medal from the University of Georgia Research Foundation. She has been appointed to numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council including the Water Science and Technology Board. Dr. Meyer currently serves on the Committee on Improving the National Water Quality Assessment Program of the U.S.G.S. She is a member of the work group designing a Report on the Condition of Nation's Freshwater Ecosystems, sponsored by the H.J. Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in Washington D.C. A past member of the Water Resources Assessment Group of the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, Dr, Meyer was also elected as a U.S. National Representative to the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology. She serves as Chair of the Science and Technical Advisory Committee of American Rivers, a national river conservation organization, and is also on its Board of Directors. She is also Chair of the Education and Science Advisory Committee of Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and is on its Board of Directors. She is on the Board of a local conservation organization, Georgia Land Trust Service Center.
Dr. Meyer's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Turner Foundation. She has been Principal Investigator of a NSF-sponsored Long-term Ecological Research site at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, studying long-term changes in Southern Appalachian forests and streams in response to anthropogenic and natural disturbances. She has done extensive research on food webs of Georgia's Coastal Plain rivers, especially the Ogeechee River. Current funded research focuses on urban rivers (with a focus on the Chattahoochee River and its tributaries), impacts of lawn care practices on stream ecosystems, nitrogen cycling in rivers, impacts of excessive sedimentation on aquatic biota, importance of decaying leaves and woody debris in stream ecosystems, effects of changes in riparian buffer designations for Georgia's trout streams, and long-term studies of causes and consequences of land-use change in the Southern Appalachians.
Dr. Meyer has served as major advisor for 10 M.S. students, 11 Ph.D. students, and has served on the advisory committees of 29 M.S. and 60 Ph.D. students. Eleven post-doctoral researchers have worked in her lab. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in limnology, stream ecology, and environmental literacy. |
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Jim Kundell, Environmental Policy
Dr. Kundell is the author of more than 150 books, articles, and policy reports on environmental policy topics. Recent projects include conducting water policy research for the comprehensive state water management plan; research on vegetative buffer requirements along trout streams; and research relating to regional water planning and management in the Southeastern United States. In 2004, he served as the co-project leader for Governor Sonny Perdue's Land Conservation Partnership Advisory Council and is the major author of the Georgia Land Conservation Partnership Plan. Previously he served as chairman of the 50 member Water Plan Advisory Committee and was the lead staff person for the Joint Water Plan Study Committee of the Georgia General Assembly. Dr. Kundell was appointed by Governor Barnes to serve on his special advisory committee on the ACT/ACF river compacts and serves on the technical advisory committee of the Upper Floridan Aquifer Sound Science Initiative. He has conducted studies relating to water allocation, regional water management, watershed management, source water protection, confined animal feeding operations, and impacts of urban sprawl. Dr. Kundell is the principal author of the Georgia Solid Waste Management Plan and former chairman of the Georgia Recycling Market Development Council. He has served on numerous legislative committees and was appointed by Governor Zell Miller to chair the Legislative Study Committee on Wetlands and to serve on the Georgia Coastal Zone Advisory Committee. Dr. Kundell staffed Governor Roy Barnes' Community Green Space Committee and provided technical support to the Georgia Municipal Association/Association County Commissioners of Georgia Water Policy Task Force and Water Management Campaign. He was co-director of the Georgia Land Use Trends (GLUT) project, funded by the Turner Foundation, and is former policy director of the University of Georgia's River Basin Center, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow. He served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers and is a delegate from the University of Georgia to the Universities Council on Water Resources. He served twice as the staff chairman of the National Conference of State Legislatures' Science, Energy and Environmental Resources Committee and was vice chairman of the Southern Legislative Conferences' Recycling Committee (RENEWS). He has conducted policy research for both the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Association of Counties.
Dr. Kundell has a joint appointment with the Odum School of Ecology and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. |
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