Owen Lind

Owen Lind

Professor of Biology

Education--AB, William Jewell College; MS, Universityof Michigan; Ph.D., University of Missouri

Major area of research--Ecosystem processes in clay-turbid lakes

Courses currently teaching--Modern Concepts in Bioscience (1305 & 1306), Limnology (4405), Microbial Ecology (5401), Bioenergetics (5407)

Office C.420 Baylor Sciences Building
Phone (254) 710-
E-mail Owen_Lind@baylor.edu

Biography

I am a limnologist. What is that you ask?  Well, consider it the oceanography of lakes.Limnology is primarily a basic ecosystem science– attempting to understand the physical and chemical interactions with living things.  For example, a limnologist might ask how muddy water determines the way that tiny microalgae grow.  Such basic research enables those managers solving environmental and aquatic resource problems to accomplish their tasks efficiently and correctly.  Although located in Texas, my research takes my students and me from lakes in northern Michigan to southern Mexico.

My teaching at the introductory biology level addresses the question of how there is such a diverse and wonderful world of life.  To understand the evolutionary basis of such diversity, we study genetics and ecology as the “engine and steering wheel” of evolution.  My teaching at the upper levels in limnology and microbial ecology involves studies of lakes in Texas and lakes in Mexico through Baylor’s Chapala Ecology Station in the summer sessions.