Team

Duncan Elkins is a lecturer at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. He is broadly interested in in freshwater resources, particularly with respect to the conservation of southeastern fish, mussels, and crayfish.

Kat earned her BS in Wildlife Conservation at the University of Delaware and recently received her Master’s of Environmental Management (MEM) degree at  Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012. Kat is currently working with SARP on a variety of tasks, including managing the dam database for the Southeast Aquatic Connectivity Assessment Project (SEACAP), managing the SEACAP program,  providing GIS services for a variety of projects including the Shoal Bass Threats Assessment and updating aspects of the SARP website and projects database.

Jay is a fisheries biologist and faculty member in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. He is a founding member of the GA-ACT, Co-Lead of its Education and Outreach subcommittee, and a member of its Project Managers subcommittee. Jay led a team of faculty, staff, and students from the University of Georgia in the removal of White Dam located on the Oconee River near Athens, Georgia. As a result of this project, the Warnell School was recognized as “Clean Water Heroes” by the Georgia Water Coalition, receiving their Clean 13 award for 2018. He is currently working with other members of the GA-ACT Regulatory Subcommittee to draft a guide to dam removal in Georgia.

Sara is the Southern Appalachians Freshwater Director with The Nature Conservancy where she is currently focused on freshwater projects in priority watersheds to improve habitat quality and connectivity for the outstanding aquatic biodiversity found in the Southern Appalachian region’s rivers and streams while balancing the needs of human communities for resilient water supplies and floodplains. From 1999-2005, she was a Principal Investigator and data manager on multiple projects to monitor federally endangered species of fish in the Rio Grande in New Mexico and San Juan River in Colorado and Utah.