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Alan P. Covich received his PhD. in 1970 in ecology from Yale University and a B.S in biology from Washington University-St. Louis in 1964. He was head of the Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology at Colorado State University from 1992 to 1999 and a professor at CSU until 2002. He was a Sabbatical Fellow at NSF’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in 2000. Currently he is a professor in the Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia and previously served as Director of the UGA Institute of Ecology (2003-2006). His current research examines hurricane and drought effects on predator-prey interactions, chemosensory communication, and species redundancy in detrital processing chains. Covich served as a North American representative to the International Association of Limnology (2007-2016), as president of the International Association for Ecology (2009-2013), the Ecological Society of America (2006-2007), the American Institute of Biological Sciences (1999-2000), and the North American Benthological Society (1995-1996). He was awarded the Icko Iben Award for Excellence for Interdisciplinary Work by the American Water Resources Association in 1997, elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1999, and a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2012. He received ESA’s Distinguished Service Award in 2015 and the University of Georgia Excellence in Teaching Award in 2014. Covich serves on the Executive Committee of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and previously as a reviewer for the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the US National Science Foundation, and as a consultant to Resources For the Future (RFF) in Washington, D.C.

Covich co-edited three editions of the Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (Academic Press) and published reviews on freshwater ecosystems in Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World’s Freshwater Resources (Oxford University Press), the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Academic Press), and the Encyclopedia of Hydrologic Processes (Wiley). Covich chaired the National Science Foundation’s Blue Ribbon Committee for Science Evaluation of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Committee of Visitors Review of the NSF Division of Environmental Biology in 2009 and served on several EPSCoR review panels. Covich served on the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation Research Review Board, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Advisory Committee, the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, and the United Arab Emirates Freshwater Science Review Committee, and several review panels for New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 2004 in Portugal working on drought impacts on food webs. Covich was an invited plenary speaker at the 2007 Ecosummit in Beijing, and in 2010 at the British Ecological Society annual meeting, the Iberian Limnology Society in the Azores, the East Asian Federation of Ecological Societies in Korea. In 2011 Covich was a plenary speaker in the Sediment-Network Biodiversity Conference in Venice, and an invited speaker at the School of Nature Conservation, Beijing School of Forestry. In 2017, he was an invited keynote speaker at the Brazilian Limnology Congress and co-chaired the INTECOL Ecological Congress in Beijing.

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