Water is the most important and potentially limiting resource on the planet.  Increased water demand due to human population growth in conjunction with ongoing human-induced changes in climate and the physical landscape are having significant impacts on freshwater resources from local to global scales.  As a result, aquatic species represent some of the most threatened taxa on the planet.  This is largely due to alteration and degradation of in-stream hydrology and habitat due to human activities.  These impacts are expected to intensify in the coming century.  A primary goal of our research is to integrate field collected data with GIS-based hydrologic modeling techniques to predict the potential impacts of environmental change on water resources and the distribution and diversity of aquatic organisms across spatial scales.  Our research group represents a variety of backgrounds and interests and includes ecologists, hydrologists, statistical biologists, and geographic information systems specialists.
 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-0844644, DEB-1404187, DEB-1311179, DBI-1564896)