Dr. Samuel R. Fowler
Sam Fowler, formerly of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been named director of the Water Resources Research Center in AU’s Natural Resources Management & Development Institute.
Fowler, who has been at AU since 1982, was associate director for rural and traditional provisional programs in ACES.
Larry Fillmer, executive director of NRMDI, said Fowler will lead the AU center in its development of research and outreach programs concerning water quality and quantity for the state and region.
Fowler is also moving to a faculty position in the College of Agriculture, effective June 1.
In the administrative post, Fowler succeeds Graeme Lockaby, who led the Water Resources Center for the past year.
While serving as the new center’s first director, Lockaby continued to carry a full load as a faculty member, as Associate Dean for Research in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, and as the director for the Center for Forest Sustainability.
After relinquishing his duties with the Water Resources Center, Lockaby will devote full time to his duties in Forestry and Wildlife Sciences.
