Effective August 1, 2017, Harry Daniels will become the NC State University Director of the Southeast Climate Science Center. The Center fosters collaborative partnerships across the NC State campus on the topic of global change.

A professor of applied ecology and aquaculture specialist with NC State Extension, Daniels recently served as head of the Department of Applied Ecology. He will replace former William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Nick Haddad as director.

“We have close to 70 faculty affiliates from six different colleges at NC State, and are looking to extend our reach even further,” Daniels said.

With a Ph.D. in water quality from Auburn University, Daniels’ research interests include the aquaculture of freshwater and marine fish and shrimp, with recent projects focusing on the southern flounder and hybrid striped bass. He is also director of the Master of Environmental Assessment Program.

The Department of the Interior Southeast Climate Science Center (SECSC) is part of a federal network of eight Climate Science Centers managed by the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center.

They work with natural and cultural resource managers to gather the scientific information and build the tools needed to help fish, wildlife and ecosystems adapt to the impacts of climate change.