Alan Yeakley, PhD | Professor and Chair, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, University Of Maryland Baltimore County

Alan Yeakley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography & Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). From 1994-2016, Dr. Yeakley was a founding faculty member of the Department of Environmental Science & Management at Portland State University in Oregon. Prior to PSU, Alan earned a Ph.D. in environmental science from the University of Virginia, where he was a presidential fellow, and then was an NSF post-doc with the Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia. He has been a principal investigator on numerous NSF, USFS and EPA research grants in ecosystem ecology, hydrology, and management with a particular focus on Portland-area urban ecosystem science. Alan has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters in ecosystem science, and he was the lead editor of the 2014 book Wild Salmonids in the Urbanizing Pacific Northwest. Dr. Yeakley has also served as major advisor for 30 graduate students, most of whom conducted their theses and dissertations on urbanizing Pacific Northwest ecosystem science and management.