Charles Hawkins Email and Phone Number

I am a faculty member in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University and Director of the Western Center for Monitoring and Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems. My main professional interests include advancement of interdisciplinary water science in support of more effective watershed and aquatic ecosystem management.My specific interests focus on: how landscape setting, watershed alteration, and climate change affects aquatic biodiversity; use of aquatic biota to assess and monitor ecological integrity; cumulative effects of watershed alteration on aquatic and riparian ecosystems; and the biology and ecology of freshwater invertebrates, amphibians, and fishes. I work extensively with state and federal agencies to develop scientifically defensible approaches to environmental assessment. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency, United States Geological Survey, US Forest Service, and the US National Park Service. I served two terms on the editorial board of the Journal of the North American Benthological Society and served a 4-year term as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Aquatic Ecology section of the Ecological Society of America. I also served two terms (2001-2005) on the Ecological Processes and Effects Committee of the USEPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), currently serve on the USEPA-SAB's Report on the Environment Committee, and served on the Community Condition Indicators Committee for the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. I have also served on several expert panel committees charged with evaluating federal environmental research laboratories, national monitoring needs, and State water monitoring programs. I am a member of the technical team that is developing and interpreting biological indices in support of the US EPA’s national assessments of the ecological condition of the USA's streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands.Specialties: aquatic ecology, interdisciplinary water sciences, environmental assessment, monitoring and sampling designs, predictive modeling, science communication