Congratulations to Dr. Debra Finn for her recent feature in Mind’s Eye magazine. Finn is associate professor of biology at Missouri State University.
Finn, along with her students and collaborators, studies the ecology of streams, particularly in the Ozark region. Her research delves into understanding how streams and their inhabitants respond to and recover from disturbances, with a particular emphasis on flash floods, which are common in Ozark streams.
Congratulations Dr. Finn!
The full story is now available online.
Excerpt:
Standing in the middle of a running stream, golden sunlight dapples the surface of the water. Gravel underfoot provides a slightly uneven texture. The sound of running water fills the air.
But a disturbance such as a flash flood can turn a shiny stream into a muddy mess of churning gravel in an instant, displacing what lives beneath the waters.
Yet, the streams still flourish.
A love for biology and landscape spatial patterns fuels Dr. Debra Finn’s passion for understanding stream ecology. She has more than 45 publications about streams to her name.
An associate professor of biology at Missouri State University, Finn is driven to understand complexities that lie beneath the water, and how connectivity enables streams to flourish despite disturbances.