CORE RESEARCH The Center's work is focused in the areas of environmental resource management and protection -- including natural ecosystems, fisheries management, engineering natural systems, watershed resource management, and the emerging research areas of organic farming, fisheries habitat conservation planning, and big river endangered species protection; environmental hazards -- including fate and transport of contaminants, pesticides research, wastewater treatment, and anaerobic fermentation, and the developing areas of emerging pathogens, microconstituents, hazardous substances, and advanced oxidation processes; and environmental informatics -- including GIS applications and the emerging research area of rainfall forecasting using satellite data. The Center depends on its talented core faculty and associate faculty to maximize its expertise in these areas to bring quality water-related research to the community and the state. Below are links to information on these research topics, related projects and faculty who work in these areas. In 2005, the Center hosted the EPSCoR Environmental Summit, which focused on developing an environmental research infrastructure, advancing environmental technology and establishing an environmental strategy for Tennessee. Sessions were molded around the broad themes of air, water and land. Representatives from the research community, state and federal agencies, and industry presented a broad spectrum of educated opinions on how the state's environmental research should be focused. All faculty doing research in environmental-related fields or any professionals in these fields who were interested in the future of Tennessee's environmental research were invited to participate. View the "EPSCoR Findings" link to the left to read the results of the summit.   (To view pdf files, you will need Adobe Acrobat software for Macintosh, Windows or Linux. This software is available free at www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.)