Environmental Social Issues/Education Faculty and Staff
The Center works with many talented faculty and associates both on and off campus to provide quality water research. Below are the faculty associates at Tennessee Tech with whom the Center works to explore the field of environmental social issues and education. To learn more about each faculty member, follow the links from their names to their department or professional Web pages.
Melinda Anderson, Interim Director
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(931) 372-3157
South (SOUT) 102B
Interim Director and Didactic Program in Dietetics Director
Associate Professor, Food, Nutrition and Dietetics. Ph.D., TTU, 2005. Registered Dietitian and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist in Tennessee.
Sharon Berk, Professor
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(931) 372-3451
Prescott (PRSC) 435
Michael Best, Professor of Agricultural Economics
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(931) 372-3154
South (SOUT) 141
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Expertise in marketing, financial analysis of new enterprises, production of crops and livestock, high tunnel production of tomatoes, heirloom vegetables
Jeffrey Boles, Chairman
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(931) 372-3421
Foster (FOST) 219Resume/CV
Responsibilities: Chemistry Department Management/Leadership. Research with both undergraduates and graduate students (MS and PhD). Instruction and service both professionally and in the community.
Janice Branson, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3373
South (SOUT) 138
Expertise in agronomy and soils
Courses taught:; AGR 1020 Connections to Agriculture; AGRN 1100 Plant Science; AGRN 1110 Plant Science Laboratory; AGRN 2210 Soils; AGRN 2240 Intro to Soil Evaluation; AGRN 3230 Environmental Soil Science; AGRN 4210 Soil Fertility and Fertilizers; AGRN 4230 Soil Classification; AGRN 4240 Advanced Soil Evaluation
Ben Byler, Professor Emeritus
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(931) 372-3019
South (SOUT) SH 131 (931) 528-1348
Expertise in Agricultural Education and Animal Science
Dennis George, P.E., Director of the Center for the Management, Utilization and Protection of Water Resources, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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(931) 372-3609
Prescott (PRSC) 233
Expertise in natural and engineered systems for control of contaminants in the environment
John Harwood, Professor
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(931) 372-3473
Foster (FOST) 222 Webpage
Resume/CV
Expertise in analytical/environmental chemistry; aquatic chemistry; fate of pesticides in the environment; stream ecology; sociology of environmental decision making.
Faisal Hossain, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3257
Prescott (PRSC) 332 Webpage
Resume/CV
Sustainability of large scale water resources infrastructure; Human impact on local climate; Land surface hydrology; Hydroclimatic extremes; Space-borne hydrologic remote sensing; Transboundary water resources management; Engineering education; Multi-media film-making for engineering documentaries.
Edward Lisic, Professor
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(931) 372-3425
Foster (FOST) 224Resume/CV
Expertise in radiopharmaceutical research involving bioinorganic metal complexes and synthesis of phosphorous ligands and phosphonate materials
Francis Otuonye, Associate Vice President for Research, Graduate Studies
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(931) 372-3374
Derryberry (DBRY) 306
Gordon Stearman, Professor
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(931) 372-3528
Prescott (PRSC) 340
Expertise in organic farm compost and irrigation treatments in vegetable plots; developing innovative extraction and analytical methods; studying fate and transport of anthropogenic chemicals in soil; developing constructed wetland systems for cleanup of water runoff in nurseries; developing best management systems for control of urban nonpoint source pollutants.
