Tracey D. Tuberville

Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
P O Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802
(803) 725-5757office
(803) 725-3309 fax
tubervil(at)uga.edu

 

Tracey Tuberville is an assistant research scientist at SREL. Her research focuses on applied conservation and management, including the use of translocation and reintroduction as tools for managing rare species. She also is particularly interested in using data from long-term mark-recapture studies to better understand the ecology and life history of reptiles and amphibians -- especially turtles-- and using those data to inform management decisions. She also is custodian of SREL's ecological genetics lab, where her research interests include using microsatellite markers to understand individual behavior, movement patterns, and population dynamics of vertebrates, particularly reptiles and amphibians. The SREL genetics lab also investigates the genetic effects of radiological and chemical contaminants.

Projects:

• Development of ecological reference models and an assessment framework for streams on the Atlantic Coastal Plain
• H-02 constructed wetland studies: amphibians and plants
• Assessing the ecological health of the D-Area ash plume wetland
• Reptiles as long-lived receptors for ecological risk assessment on the SRS
• Repatriation of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) on the Savannah River Site
• Upland snake telemetry
• Impacts of military training and land management on threatened and endangered species in the Southeastern Fall Line/sandhills community
• Herpetofaunal inventories of the 16 Southeast Coastal Network national parks