Dr. Shea Tuberty

Dr. Tuberty is focused on a great variety of interests related to southeastern ecotoxicology, ecophysiology and aquatic ecology issues. At the root of our efforts is a passion for sustainable management of water resources. In recent years we have worked on impacts of road salts and dam removal on headwater stream fish and invertebrate assemblages, the endocrine disrupting effects of sewage effluents on fish, industrial chicken litter soil amendment practices on soil and water quality, and impacts of coal ash spills on water quality and aquatic community assemblages or rates of toxic metal bioaccumulation. The Tuberty Lab is a member of the AppAqua (Appalachian Aquatic Sciences) interdisciplinary research cluster working to understand the local ecology and impacts of land use change on water resources of the Upper South Fork New River as well as human impacts on other Southern Appalachian headwater streams that form the Catawba, Linville, New, N. Toe, Watauga and Yadkin Rivers which begin in the North Carolina High Country.

 Areas of expertise

• Aquatic Ecotoxicology 
• Invertebrate and Fish Ecology
• Aquatic Resource Sustainability