Endowed Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas

Dr. Marlis R. Douglas is an endowed professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas. She co-directs aCaMEL (Arkansas Molecular Ecology and Conservation Laboratory) and works with a team of graduate students and collaborators on research that focuses on conservation and management of biodiversity. The lab strives to understand how fish species diversify within a riverscape perspective, and how this knowledge can be translated into management and conservation in a changing world.

The lab uses a variety of approaches, including genetics, morphometrics, and field-ecology. Major research foci include conservation genetics of southwestern desert fishes, and biodiversity assessment of Himalayan fishes in Bhutan, but Dr. Douglas’s interests are broad and extend from invasive to threatened and endangered species, and from local to global scales.