Bowman is Environmental Projects Manager at the Voinovich School at Ohio University. Bowman has worked on a variety of projects with the Voinovich School’s Environmental and GIS group, including developing an evaluation system for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Mineral Resources Management (ODNR-DMRM) to track successes of acid mine drainage remediation in Huff Run, Raccoon Creek, Monday Creek, and Sunday Creek. She has also worked on the Leading and Moxahala Creek Acid Mine Drainage Abatement and Treatment (AMDAT) plans and developed and taught a “Field Methods for Watershed Characterization” training. Prior to coming to Ohio University, Bowman worked on AMDAT projects with the Wayne National Forest and the non-profit group, Rural Action.

Dyer is an associate professor in the Department of Geography. His expertise is in biogeography, landscape ecology and forest dynamics. Dyer’s research focuses on eastern North American forests, especially the patterns that emerge from the interactions of the physical environment, biotic processes and disturbance. He explores vegetation-site relationships to assess the impact of future climatic change and evaluate changes related to historic land use patterns. He examines the role of historic land use in shaping the present-day flora of central Appalachian forests. Dyer is currently serving as a co-PI on an EPA STAR grant that seeks to develop a classification system for gauging stream health.

Hughes is a fluvial geomorphologist at the Voinovich School. His research and teaching interests include physical geography/geomorphology/fluvial geomorphology; environmental geology/geohydrology; human impacts on fluvial processes and landforms; interdisciplinary studies in river ecology and management; and GIS and Spatial Data Visualization. Hughes is currently working with the Raccoon Creek Watershed Group on developing a methodology for assessing sediment loading in surface waters for the purposes of creating a Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) plan.

Johnson is an associate professor of biological sciences. Her research interests include: insect physiological ecology; chemical ecology of insect-plant interactions; nutritional physiology; and environmental toxicology and responses of aquatic macroinvertebrates to acid mine drainage. Currently, Johnson is researching the responses of aquatic macroinvertebrates to acid mine drainage; effects of acid stress on functional feeding guilds, development of rapid bioassessment tools using stream macroinvertebrates.

Lopez is an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences. Her research interests include the geochemistry and hydrogeology of geothermal systems, including diffuse soil degassing and heat flow studies. Her areas of research are in Central America (Costa Rica and El Salvador), and in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. She is also interested in environmental problems associated to mining and resource exploitation. In Ohio, she investigates the chemistry, fluid flow and mass transfer associated with acid mine drainage from coal mines.

Miller is the Director for Energy and Environmental Programs for the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs and manages the Consortium for Energy, Economics and the Environment (CE3). He has served on several local and statewide committees dealing with surface water management and environmental protection and acts as a liaison between state and federal agencies and local stakeholders interested in improving the natural environment in southeastern Ohio. He also mentors undergraduate and graduate students to internalize knowledge and apply it in project-based experiences; facilitates the development and maintenance of multidisciplinary, multi-agency partnerships; and manages the design, contracting, implementation and evaluation of projects for external clients.

Rankin is a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Bioassessment and Biocriteria at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. He has worked on understanding the influence of multiple stressors on aquatic life in streams, development and application of stream habitat assessment methodologies, development and application of biological criteria, development of biocriteria-based chemical criteria for aquatic life (e.g., nutrients, sediment, metals, etc) and developing processes to improve the accuracy and efficacy of TMDLs for nutrients and sediments.

Springer is an assistant professor in the Department of Geological Sciences. Springer researches the changing state of human-impacted rivers, particularly the effects of changes in water and sediment regimes, with implications for river management and regulation. He studies headwater streams on the western margin of the Appalachian Mountains, in particular how basin size influences channel type and morphology for different rock types. Springer is currently working on an EPA-funded project focused on stream health in southeastern Ohio.

Tragically, Dr. Mary Stoertz, a key member of this project known for her enthusiasm and knowledge of SE Ohio ecosystems passed away unexpectedly in early 2007. Michael Hughes and others completed the hydrological work that had been planned as part of her contribution. We will greatly miss her contributions in the final portions of this work. Stoertz was an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, and director of the Appalachian Watershed Research Group at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs. Her interests were in surface and groundwater hydrology, and fusing the science of water resources with engineering and policy to restore impaired water resources within Appalachia. This includes coal mine drainage, river channelization, stream restoration, water loss due to mineland subsidence, river flooding and energy efficiency. Her research encompassed: characterization of baseline conditions and processes; hydrologic monitoring; numerical modeling; watershed partnership building; and fusing water resources science and policy.

Stuart is an associate professor and the assistant chair of the Department of Civil Engineering with a dual appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Stuart currently serves as the director of the Biofuels Research Laboratory and is an associate director of the Ohio Coal Research Center. His research interests include: reduction and treatment of acid mine drainage; bioremediation and pollution prevention strategies; bacterial movement in soils; and biological treatment of hazardous wastes. Stuart also directs a national student environmental engineering competition.

Vis is an associate professor of phycology in the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology. She serves as the department's graduate chair, the coordinator of the Honors Tutorial College program in environmental and plant biology, and the director of the DNA analysis facility. Her research interests include: freshwater algal ecology and evolution; and systematics and biogeography of freshwater red algae and the impacts of acid mine drainage on stream periphyton communities in southeastern Ohio. She collaborates with other researchers to study the impacts of acid mine drainage on aquatic life and hydrogeology of these streams, in order to contribute to a more complete understanding of acid mine drainage pollution effects on ecosystems.