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Graham Lockaby

Graeme Lockaby, associate dean for research and professor of the AU School of Forestry and Wildlife Science, is serving as director of the Water Resources Center.

Lockaby is widely known and acclaimed for his academic contributions to the understanding of the ecology of floodplain forests. A native of Seneca, South Carolina, Lockaby earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Forestry from Clemson University and the Ph.D. in Agronomy from Mississippi State University. He joined the Auburn faculty in 1986.

During his years at Auburn, Lockaby has studied nutrient cycling in floodplains as well as the effects of changing uses of rural lands, ownership fragmentation, and urban development on forested landscape.

Lockaby has been a key catalyst to interdisciplinary and broadly collaborative work on the ecology and functions of forest wetland systems of the southeastern United States. He has been extremely successful in building research teams of broad expertise and in securing resources to tackle complex challenges in natural systems management.

In addition to his teaching and research efforts and his work as an associate dean, Lockaby also has led AU Peaks of Excellence program in Forest Sustainability, an interdisciplinary effort that examines the interplay among ecological, sociological, and economic factors as these affect and are affected by landscape change. He also served as co-director of the AU Center for Forest Sustainability.

He is the winner of the 2003 National Wetlands Award for Science Research and the 2003 Gulf Guardian Award for a Civic/Nonprofit Organization.