Reach out to Living River by email ([email protected]) or phone (205-208-0035, leave a message and we will return your call) with any interest in conducting research at Living River or bringing undergraduate or graduate classes for fieldwork.
We look forward to meeting and working with you!
We look forward to meeting and working with you!
Dr. Garrett Hopper showed the ongoing mussel research work with the Atkinson Mussel Lab and Dr. Carla Atkinson, Associate Professor at the University of Alabama to campers in 2022. https://atkinsonlab.ua.edu/
The Cahaba Riverkeeper has collected Cahaba River data at Living River as part of its Swim Guide program since 2016. Click here to learn more about Cahaba Riverkeeper and their Swim Guide program. Below are just a few of their singular data points over time at Living River:
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In 2015, Amateur paleontologist and Living River volunteer, Don Blakely discovered a new Carboniferous insect fossil at Living River!
"The Carboniferous insect fauna of Alabama is small, comprised of five species (Beckemeyer & Engel, 2011). Another specimen has recently been discovered and deposited in the collection of The University of Alabama Museum of Natural History. Like the earlier taxa, it is a well-preserved wing of a large palaeopterous insect that we place here in the family Archaemegaptilidae." "Etymology: The specific epithet is a patronym honoring Mr. Don Blakely, who discovered the fossil and donated it to the University of Alabama State Museum." "With the addition of this species to the Pottsville Formation palaeoentomofauna, the known taxa remain exclusively palaeopterous and rather large in size. We hope that further exploration of the Pottsville Formation will continue to add to our knowledge of the Paleozoic insects of Alabama." Read full Novitates Paleoentomologicae journal article here. |
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The Oblong Rocksnail was rediscovered in 2011 in the river bend of Living River in an experiment and study conducted by Nathan Whelan, Auburn University, Paul Johnson Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center, and Phillip Harris, University of Alabama.
Click here to read their journal article. Click here to read about the Oblong Rocksnail receiving endangered status after years of advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Cahaba Riverkeeper. 
Credit: Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center. Image is available for media use.
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In 2004, many organizations worked together to remove the Marvel Slab from the Cahaba now the site of Williams Canoe Launch at Living River.
"There is additional evidence that the Marvel Slab served as an upstream migration barrier based on a boat electrofishing collection by the GSA prior to dam removal (26 May 2004). In this sample, fish abundance and species richness was much greater below (112 individuals, 20 species) than above (23 individuals, 12 species) the dam. " - New Upstream Records for Fishes Following Dam Removal in the Cahaba River, Alabama. Click here for full journal article in the Southeastern Fishes Council Proceedings |
