Alabama NewsCenter — University of Alabama focuses on small wetlands to boost resource management

By Adam Jones
University of Alabama

Working with a national laboratory, researchers at the University of Alabama are investigating how the role of the patchwork of small drainage spots across the Southeast is changing as flooding becomes more frequent.

The data collected by the research team from small, inland wetlands will enhance ecosystem and climate models the federal government provides to the scientific community as well as organizations involved in water and land management. The work is supported by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

“In Alabama, we have a lot of valuable natural resources that benefit from wetlands,” said Corianne Tatariw, a postdoctoral researcher in biological sciences leading the project. “Like the rest of the southeastern United States, we are also experiencing more intense rainfall and flooding events due to climate change, so understanding how these systems respond to that is really important for resource management.”

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