DepartmentDepartment of Biological Sciences
OrganizationTowson State Univ.
Emaillgough@towson.edu
Location
Towson , Maryland 21252
United StatesBio
Laura Gough is a plant ecologist who has worked in Arctic Alaska for more than 20 years. She holds a B.S. in Biology with Honors from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology with a minor in Experimental Statistics from Louisiana State University. She was a postdoctoral scientist at the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory prior to holding faculty positions at the University of Alabama and at the University of Texas at Arlington. She moved to Towson University in August 2015 where she is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences. Her primary research area is plant community ecology with a focus on plant-soil interactions and plant-animal interactions, with most of her research being conducted in northern Alaska.