Friends of the Locust Fork River and the Blount County Historical Society present:
“Alabama’s Turtle Biodiversity,” an informative talk about local turtles and their essential roles in the ecosystem.
Dr. Grover Brown and Seamus O’Brien from JSU, Speakers
With a few of their turtle friends, too!
ALSO: FLFR's Art, Photo, Video & Poetry Traveling Show - see the 2024 winning entries and meet some of the artists, photographers, poets and videographers.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Grover Brown is currently an Assistant Professor at Jacksonville State University. A native of Rome, Georgia, Dr. Brown studied Ecology at the University of Georgia with a focus in herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians). After graduation, he took a job opportunity working in turtle conservation in North and Central Vietnam. After returning Stateside, he started his Ph.D. at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where he studied the ecology and evolutionary history of freshwater turtles in the Southeastern US. Currently, he has a small lab at JSU with three Master’s students working on turtle projects across the state, including Blount County. The central tenets of his and his students’ research are tied to conservation biology, and conserving the many species of turtle that call Alabama home.
Seamus O'Brien is a current master's student from Jacksonville State University (JSU) researching turtles in the Brown Lab. He also is the current Co-Chair of Alabama's chapter of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ALAPARC). Seamus completed his undergraduate degree majoring in Wildlife Sciences from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia (UGA). His background is in the study of turtles, coastal plain amphibians, and salamanders. In particular he studies the turtles of the Black Warrior Drainage, notably in Blount County.
