Dr. Thomas L. Crisman is a Jefferson Science Fellow and Professor in the School of Geosciences in the USF College of Arts and Sciences, and an affiliated researcher with the USF Water Institute. Dr. Crisman has been researching the ecology, management, restoration and conservation of freshwater wetlands, lakes and rivers specifically in the subtropics and tropics for more than 40 years. His work has led to significant advances in understanding subtropical limnology in Florida and subtropical regions around the globe. In addition to Florida's freshwater ecosystems, Dr. Crisman has conducted extensive international research in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. His research has also focused on the long-term ramifications of watershed management, transboundary water issues and landscape responses to over exploitation of groundwater resources in the Balkans and Greece. An internationally renowned researcher and expert in water management policy-making, Dr. Crisman identified the interdependent relationship between human society, water management, energy, economics, and public health. He has created sustainable policies for governments around the world looking to integrate science, social values and water management, and he is applying this novel approach in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Jordan, as well as in the Balkans. He is currently working on interdisciplinary approaches to ecohydrology and ecohealth, ecological impacts of urbanization, and climate change. Dr. Crisman has been a Ford Foundation Travelling Scholar in Venezuela, a visiting scientist in Australia, an instructor for OTS in Costa Rica, a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, an instructor in Uganda and Poland, and a visiting instructor for UNESCO in Zimbabwe. He also currently chairs the International Board for the International Balkan Environment Center. He has been a mission member and mission chief for UNDP/World Bank Evaluation teams for various international projects. Since 1997, Dr. Crisman has served as a board member of the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. He has made nearly 300 presentations at scientific meetings throughout the world, and he has written 95 refereed publications, two books and 29 book chapters. Dr. Crisman earned an A.B. in Zoology and Geology, an M.A. in Zoology, and Ph.D. in Zoology-Limnology-all from Indiana University. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Limnological Research Center at the University of Minnesota.