Charlene LeBleu is an Associate Professor of the Landscape Architecture Program at Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Her primary areas of interest and research have been focused on “green” building and water quality issues in Alabama, especially issues related to low impact development and natural resource based design. Other interest and research areas include public access, and brownfield redevelopment. She is a member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners, and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA. Professor LeBleu has shown exceptional public/community service and leadership especially in the field of Outreach Scholarship working with regional partners and city planning commissions on projects such as, the Mobile, Alabama Green Streets Initiative, an Assessment of Population Growth and Development Impacts on the Fish River Basin Coastal Community and a Demonstration of Low Impact Development (LID) Practices to Reduce Nonpoint Source Polluted Runoff from a Residential Development in the Saugahatchee Creek Watershed. She has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in university, town, and state affairs as well as in our national professional and academic organizations. Professor LeBleu has a B.S. Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida, and a Master of Community Planning, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Auburn University. Charlene LeBleu can be reached at 334.844.0192 or leblecm@auburn.edu.

Latif Kalin is an Associate Professor of Forest Hydrology at the School of Forest and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. His primary areas of research interest are Forest Hydrology, Watershed Hydrology, Erosion and Sediment Transport, Water Quality and Hydrologic Modeling, and Urbanization Impacts on Hydrology and Water Quality. For the past couple of years, Dr. Kalin and his graduate students Andrew Morrison and Harsh Singh have been engaged in assessing impacts of population growth, land use, and development within the Fish River Basin coastal community of Baldwin County, AL. Professor Kalin has MS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Prior to Auburn University, Dr. Kalin spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH. Dr. Kalin also has two years of professional experience as a water resources engineer. He can be researched at 334- 844-4671 or latif@auburn.edu

Christian Miller is an extension specialist in non-point source pollution for the Auburn University Marine Extension and Research Center and shares his knowledge and services with Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and the Alabama Clean Water Partnership. He is a 2001 graduate of Jacksonville State University with a BS in Biology and Environmental Science, and a 2003 graduate of Auburn University with a MS in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture. Prior to joining AUMERC, Christian served as an extension agent with the Miami-Dade County Extension Service in Florida, from 2004 to 2009, primarily organizing informal outreach and education programs in the areas of aquaculture and water science. Christian lives in Mobile with his wife, Katherine, and his Springer Spaniel, Katie. He also enjoys hiking, photography, and fishing. Christian Miller can be reached at 251-438-5690 or christian@auburn.edu

Navideh Noori is a Ph.D. student at the School of Forest and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. She has a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering-Water Resource Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Zanjan University, Iran. Her primary areas of interest are hydrology, and impacts of urbanization on flooding and water quality and its related impacts on human health. Her M.Sc. research focus was on impacts of climate change on flooding. Navideh Noori can be reached at 334.844.7362 or nzn0004@auburn.edu

Maria Hines is a student in the Master of Landscape Architecture program and B.S. Environmental Design at Auburn University. She is from Birmingham, Alabama. Maria currently works with Professor Charlene LeBleu on the Reading Creek/ Reading Park Restoration Project, and Eight-Mile Creek Watershed project. Prior to working on the Reading Creek/ Reading Park Restoration Project, Maria worked with Alabama Rural Ministries and other students to create a landscape master plan for Tuskegee First United Methodist Church. Maria Hines can be contacted at: mkh0016@auburn.edu

Rajesh Sawant is a Research Associate at the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. He has expertise in GIS and remote sensing imagery analysis. He believes that understanding impact of changes in land use land cover on ecosystem services is crucial while making policy/ design decisions. He has M.S. in Geography and a dual Master degree in Landscape Architecture and Community Planning from Auburn University. His M.S. thesis in Geography is on land use land cover change projection for use in municipal water resource planning in the Saugahatchee watershed. The synthesis project work he did in Landscape Architecture and Planning focuses on watershed level green infrastructure planning for sustainable urban development. He also has a M.S. in Horticulture and B.S. in Agriculture from Dr. BSKKV Agricultural University, Dapoli, India. He can be reached at 334-844-1026 or sawanrr@auburn.edu