(October 06, 2022) --

Some of the team members on the MTA Delta project include from left to right: Sam Bickley of the Auburn University CFWE; Ruth Carmichael of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, or DISL; Akela Yuhl also of the DISL; and Chris Anderson, lead principal investigator in Auburn University’s CFWE. (Courtesy Auburn University)

Dauphin Island Sea Lab faculty Dr. Ruth H. Carmichael and student Akela Yuhl are part of a team to assess the function and vulnerability of forest wetlands in the Mobile-Tensaw-Apalachee River Delta (MTA). Auburn University's Christopher Anderson is the lead principal investigator on the project funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in cooperation with the State of Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Alabama Center of Excellence at the MESC/Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

Other collaborators on the project include Auburn Professor Latif Kalin of the College of Forest, Wildlife, and Environment.  

Anderson explains that while the delta is a tremendous wetland complex of international significance, it's greatly understudied.

Read more in the Auburn University Newsroom.