Julia Cherry
Assistant Professor
101B Carmichael, A210A Bevil
julia.cherry@ua.edu
(205) 348-8416
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Education:
B.S. - Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 1999
Ph.D. - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2005
Research Focus:
Wetland Ecology
Effects of Climate Change on Natural Ecosystems
Plant Community Dynamics
Teaching Interests:
Aquatic & Wetland Ecology
Water Resources: Natural History, Ecology, Management
Climate Change: Science, Media, and Public Perception
About:
Dr. Cherry grew up in Alabama and aside from being assistant professor in New College is a Faculty Advisor for the University of Alabama Environmental Council (UAEC) & the Scuba Club. She is a board member for the Friends of Hurricane Creek. She received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Religious Studies from Rhodes College (1995-1999). She also received her Ph. D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Alabama (1999-2005). After she received her doctorate, she worked as a post-doctoral Researcher at USGS National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana (2005-2006). In her spare time she enjoys to travel, spend time with her husband and their 3 dogs, jogging, and cooking. She also likes to watch collegiate sports, read fiction, and vampire “lit.”
Selected Publications
Cherry JA, McKee KL, Grace JB (2009) Elevated CO2 enhances biological contributions to elevation change in coastal wetlands by offsetting stressors associated with sea-level rise. Journal of Ecology 97:67-77.
Langley JA, McKee KL, Cahoon DR, Cherry JA, Megonigal JP (2009) Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.0807695106.
McKee KL, Cherry JA (2009) Hurricane Katrina sediment slowed elevation loss in subsiding brackish marshes of the Mississippi River Delta. Wetlands 29:2-15.
Cherry JA, Ward AK, Ward GM (2009) The dynamic nature of land-water interfaces: changes in structure and productivity along a water depth gradient in the Talladega Wetland Ecosystem. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30:977-980.
Valentine-Rose LM, Cherry JA, Culp JJ, Perez KE, Pollock JB, Arrington DA, Layman CA (2007) Floral and faunal differences between fragmented and unfragmented Bahamian tidal creeks. Wetlands 27:702-718.
Cherry JA, Gough L (2006) Temporary floating island formation maintains wetland plant species richness: the role of the seed bank. Aquatic Botany 85:29-36.
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