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Yener Ulus
Assistant Professor | College of Sciences
Dr. Yener Ulus is an environmental health scientist studying how environmental change influences the movement, transformation, and accumulation of pollutants in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. He leads the TRACE Lab at Auburn University at Montgomery with a focus on mercury and other environmental contaminants.
His research investigates how sea-level rise, flooding, saltwater intrusion, forest management, and wildfires affect pollutant cycling and associated ecological and human health risks. His work integrates field studies, laboratory experiments, and environmental monitoring to better understand and predict contaminant behavior.
More recently, his interests have expanded to artificial intelligence and data-driven environmental science, particularly for improving pollution monitoring, analyzing environmental patterns, and predicting contaminant dynamics. He also collaborates with social scientists and public health researchers to explore public awareness, risk perception, and exposure-related behaviors, connecting environmental research with human health and risk communication.
Dr. Ulus has published in leading peer-reviewed journals and maintains national and international research collaborations. The TRACE Lab welcomes new research partnerships and prospective master’s students interested in environmental science.
Robert Underwood
Professor | College of Sciences
Ph.D. Mathematics (1992), State University of New York at Albany
M.S. Mathematics Education (1986), State University of New York at Albany
Robert Underwood is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the School of School of Sciences. His research interests concern the classification of Hopf algebra orders in group rings and the application of Hopf orders to Galois module theory and the theory of formal groups.
