Dr Michael Slattery, Lead Scientist

Institute for Environmental Studies, TCU

Professor Mike Slattery is Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies and Chair of the Department of Environmental Science at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas. Originally from South Africa, he is an internationally-trained geographer and environmental scientist: his Bachelor's is from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Masters from the University of Toronto, Canada, and Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, England. He has written more than 70 scientific articles, and in 2008 published Contemporary Environmental Issues (Kendall Hunt). Mike has worked in diverse landscapes ranging from the Namib Desert in southern Africa to the cloud forests of Costa Rica. His research expertise is on human impact on the environment, especially river systems, and he teaches courses on the environment, soils, hydrology, and climate. He lives in Fort Worth.