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Background

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The Auburn University Water Resources Center was established in January 2007 as part of the new AU Natural Resources Management & Development Institute.

Graeme Lockaby, Associate Dean for Research and Professor in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, was the center's first director and worked with a nine-member interdisciplinary committee to guide the center's development.

In Aprill of 2008, Graeme Lockaby resigned as Director to return to his duties as in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, and as Director of the Center for Forest Sustainability.

In June of 2009, the Water Resources Center welcomed Sam Fowler as its new director. Sam Fowler is a former associate director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, and is a faculty member in the College of Agriculture.