Clark R. Alexander, Jr

Dr. Clark Alexander is the Director of the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, a Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences on the UGA-Athens campus, and previous Director of Georgia Southern University’s Applied Coastal Research Laboratory on the Skidaway Institute campus. He joined the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in 1989 as a Post-doctoral scientist. His general research focus is on understanding sedimentary processes in estuarine, coastal and continental margin environments, using both field-based sedimentological and radiochemical tools and GIS-based techniques. His recent projects have focused on barrier island dynamics, coastal hazards, marsh persistence and benthic habitat distribution in the southeastern US.