Robin McDowell
Assistant Professor Life & Earth Sciences- Education
Ph.D., 1992, Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
M.S., 1988, Geology, West Virginia University
B.S., 1983, Geoscience, The Pennsylvania State University
- Specializations
Water resources management, agricultural water use, environmental policy, sedimentation and tectonics, stratigraphy, structural geology
Committees/Organizations
Geological Society of America
American Geosciences Institute
Chair, Geology Curriculum Committee, Perimeter College
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
- Biography
Rob McDowell, P.G. is a geologist with 27 years of experience in applied environmental research, environmental policy, and higher education. He has taught geology and environmental policy at Georgia State University, Georgia Perimeter College, Emory University, and the University of Georgia, where he was Director of the Environmental Policy Program from 2009-2014.
- Publications
Laudato Si’: An Action Plan for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, co-author, November 2015 https://archatl.com/catholic-life/refreshatl/
Georgia’s Statewide Nonpoint Source Management Plan, Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division, 2014, 245 p., co-author, compiler, and editor http://epd.georgia.gov/sites/epd.georgia.gov/files/related_files/site_page/Georgia_Nonpoint_Source_Managment_Plan_2014.pdf
NPDES Enforcement Management Strategy for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, 2013, 106 p.
Governor’s Water Supply Program: Report to the Governor’s Water Supply Task Force, December 2011, 28 p. http://www.gefa.org/Index.aspx?page=537
Coastal Plan Guidance Documents to support the Coastal Georgia Water and Wastewater Permitting Plan for Managing Salt Water Intrusion, 2006, editor. www.gadnr.org/cws
Recommendations for the Flint River Basin Regional Water Development and Conservation Plan, principal author, March 16, 2005, 227 p. www.gadnr.org/frbp
Rugel, K., Jackson, C.R., Dowd, J., McDowell, R.J., Rasmussen, T., Golladay, S., Using hydrogeomorphic patterns to predict groundwater discharge in a karst basin: Lower Flint River Basin, southwestern Georgia, USA, Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies, in press.
Evans, J.M., Gambill, J, McDowell, R.J., Hopkinson, Charles S., 2016, Tybee Island Sea Level Adaptation Plan, Final Report, April 2016, National Sea Grant Program https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289999590_Tybee_Island_Sea-Level_Rise_Adaptation_Plan (winner of the 2014 Sea Grant National Superior Outreach Programming Award)
McDowell, R.J., Pruitt, C.A., Bahn, Robert, eds., 2015, Proceedings of the Georgia Water Resources Conference, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, http://www.gwri.gatech.edu/node/4070
McDowell, R.J., Rugel, K., Dowd, J.F., Golladay, S.W., Jackson, C.R., 2012, Analysis of bedrock joints in Upper Cretaceous-Miocene rocks of the Georgia Coastal Plain, Geological Society of America Abstracts with programs, v. 44, no. 4.
Rugel, K., McDowell, R.J., Dowd, J., Golladay, S. W., Jackson, C. R., 2012, Investigating groundwater/stream interaction between the Upper Floridan aquifer and streams in the lower Flint and Chattahoochee river basins, GA, USA, using stream chemistry, remote sensing and bedrock fracture orientation, Geological Society of America Abstracts with programs, v. 44, no.4.
McDowell, R.J., 2010, Assessing sustainable yield of aquifers as part of the Georgia Comprehensive Statewide Water Management Plan, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, no. 5.
Fritz., W.J., Sears, J.W., McDowell, R.J., Wampler, J.M., 2007, Cenozoic Volcanic Rocks of Southwestern Montana: Northwest Geology, v. 36, p. 91-110.
Elfner, M.A. and McDowell, R.J., 2004, Water conservation in Georgia – Bringing efficiency into mainstream thinking: Journal of the American Water Works Association, p. 136-142. (2005 AWWA Water Conservation Division Best Paper Award, by unanimous approval of AWWA Board of Directors).
Steele, W and McDowell, R.J., 1998, Permeable thickness of the Miocene upper and lower Brunswick aquifers, coastal area, Georgia: Georgia Geologic Survey Information Circular IC-103, 34 p.
McDowell, R.J., 1997, Evidence for synchronous thin-skinned and basement deformation in the Cordilleran fold-thrust belt: the Tendoy Mountains, southwestern Montana: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 19, no. 1, p. 77-87
Torak, L.J., and McDowell, R.J., 1995, Groundwater resources of the lower Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basins in parts of Alabama and Georgia – Subarea 4 of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint and Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa river basins: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-321, 162 p.