Water Center 
Core Faculty
Dennis George, Director
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Office: (931) 372-3609
Office Building: PH 233
Expertise in natural and engineered systems for control of contaminants in the environment
Sharon Berk, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3451 Office Building: PH 435
Gordon Stearman, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3528 Office Building: PH 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.
Martha Wells, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-6123 Office Building: PH 438
Resume/CV
Expertise in examination of point source and nonpoint source chemical impacts on ecosystem health; colloid fate and transport; application of established and emerging analytical procedures; development of new sample preparation technologies for trace enrichment; flow field-flow fractionation of humic substances and surrogate microsphere colloidal tracers; solid-phase extraction of pesticides; fatty acid characterization in fishes
Associate Faculty
Melinda Anderson
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Office: (931) 372-3865
Expertise in nutrition and dietetics
Pedro Arce, Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering
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Office: (931) 372-3297 Office Building: PH 214
Electrokinetics • Non-thermal Plasma High Oxidation Processes • Nano-structured (soft) Materials
James Baier, Assistant Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3193 Office Building: SH 125
Expertise in agricultural engineering technology
Michael Best, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3154 Office Building: SH 140
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Expertise in marketing and production of crops and livestock greenhouse production of tomatoes, heirloom vegetables
Phillip Bettoli, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3086
Expertise in evaluating stocking programs using OTC marking and coded wire tagging technology; catch-and-release mortality; effects of water level fluctuations on fish recruitment in reservoir ecosystems; dynamics of exploited fish populations; management and ecology of imperiled fishes
Joseph Biernacki, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3667 Office Building: PH 312
Cementious Systems • Micro-fluidics • Electronic and Structural Materials
Jeffrey Boles, Chair
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Office: (931) 372-3421 Office Building: FH 219 Resume/CV
Janice Branson
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Office: (931) 372-3373
Expertise in agronomy and soils
Ben Byler
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Office: (931) 372-3291
Expertise in agricultural education
Daniel Combs, Chair
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Office: (931) 372-6541 Office Building: PR 207A
Expertise in ecology and behavior of avian wildlife species, especially wintering waterfowl; ecology and management of wetland ecosystems; movement patterns, interflock associations and social biology of Canada geese
Steven Cook, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3194 Office Building: PR 315 Web site
Expertise in ecology of freshwater invertebrates; fish parasitology; feeding ecology and bioenergetics of freshwater fishes; biotic indices
Dale Ensor, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3493 Office Building: FH 125 Web site
Expertise in radiochemistry, especially separation science
John Gunderson, Associate Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3250 Office Building: PR 319
Expertise in microbial ecology and evolution; detection of Legionella-like and other amoebal pathogens; molecular genetics; protozoology
John Harwood, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3473 Office Building: FH 222 Web site
Expertise in analytical/environmental chemistry; aquatic chemistry; fate of pesticides in the environment; stream ecology; sociology of environmental decision making
Steven Hayslette, Assistant Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3146 Office Building: PR 307 Web site
Expertise in avian behavior, ecology and management, particularly in relation to doves and pigeons
Faisal Hossain
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Office: (931) 372-3257 Office Building: PH 332
Expertise in land-surface applications of present and planned hydrologic remote sensing missions (space-borne and ground networks); integration of conventional statistical theory with fuzzy concepts for cost-effective management of contaminated hydro-systems (such as the arsenic contamination of shallow ground waters in Bangladesh); development of computationally robust probabilistic schemes for improved hydrologic characterization of geo-systems
James Layzer, Professor and Unit Leader, TN Cooperative Fishery Research Unit
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Office: (931) 372-3032
Expertise in effects of stream regulation on aquatic biota; ecology and conservation of freshwater mussels; restoring and maintaining aquatic biodiversity; ecology of stream fishes
Ping-Chi Li
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Office: (931) 372-3752 Office Building: KH 205 Web site
Expertise in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology; environmental monitoring; hazardous waste site management; groundwater modeling; water quality; computer networking; Internet mapping
Edward Lisic, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3425 Office Building: FH 224 Resume/CV
Expertise in radiopharmaceutical research involving bioinorganic metal complexes and synthesis of phosphorous ligands and phosphonate materials
Roy Loutzenheiser, Associate Dean
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Office: (931) 372-3782 Office Building: CH 321
Hayden Mattingly, Associate Professor
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Office: (931) 372-6410 Office Building: PR 303
Expertise in freshwater fish ecology; conservation biology; endangered species management
Hugh Mills
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Office: (931) 372-3121 Office Building: KH 301 Web site
Expertise in glacial landforms and sedimentology; humid-region fans and fan deposits; sedimentology of mass-movement deposits; erosional development of volcanic landforms; hillslope evolution and processes; tectonic geomorphology; stream landforms and processes; karst geomorphology; morphometric analysis of digital elevation data; environmental geology
Eric Morgan, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3401 Office Building: PR 110
Expertise in aquatic biology and ecology; environmental and ecological physiology; environmental toxicology
Francis Otuonye, Associate Vice President for Research/Graduate Studies
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Office: (931) 372-3233 Office Building: DH 306
Dr. Otuonye generates research topics and coordinates externally funded research and scholarly activities throughout the University. He provides administrative reviews and approves research proposals for University commitments, including budgets, personnel, animals, human subjects, facilities, and hazardous materials. He conducts seminars and workshops for administrators and faculty on funding sources to support research and other scholarly activities, and disseminates information about indirect costs, fringe benefits, and University policies on research to administrators, faculty, and staff. Dr. Otuonye initiates and conducts quarterly meetings with College Liaison Officers for Research to discuss University policies and procedures affecting contracts and grants, and internal review of proposals, grants and contracts. He interacts with the Faculty Research Committee by reviewing proposals and suggesting sources for funding. The Associate Vice President is responsible for administering the policies applicable to the Graduate School. With the assistance of the Graduate School Executive Committee, Dr. Otuonye's office establishes and enforces minimum standards of graduate work in the University, encourages high standards, and coordinates the graduate programs of the various colleges. He rules on applications for admission to the Graduate School, submits recommendations for the awarding of fellowships, assistantships, and internships after consultation with the Deans involved, and maintains graduate student records.
Joseph Redding, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3135 Office Building: PR 321
Expertise in comparative physiology, endocrinology, and impacts of environmental stress
Thomas Roberts, Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3138 Office Building: PR 303
Expertise in animal ecology; wetland ecology; habitat evaluation and management
Stephen Stedman, Professor of English
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Office: (931) 372-3763 Office Building: HH 306A Web site
Expertise in technical/professional communication; scientific communication; literature and science; literature and the environment; literature and ornithology; general topics on ornithology including population dynamics, distributional dynamics and phenology
Donald Visco, Jr., Professor
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Office: (931) 372-3606 Office Building: PH 306 Resume/CV
Bioinformatics • Molecular Design • Thermodynamic Modeling
Lenly Weathers
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Office: (931) 372-6539 Office Building: PH 439
Expertise in fate and transport of pollutants in the environment; transformation of chlorinated compounds; oxidized metals and other pollutants in anaerobic environments in the presence of metallic iron
Jed Young
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Office: (931) 372-3251 Office Building: SH 136
Expertise in ornamental horticulture
Hong Zhang, Associate Professor
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Office: (931) 372-6325 Office Building: FH 221 Web site
Expertise in analytical/environmental chemistry; aquatic chemistry; soil chemistry; environmental photochemistry; biogeochemical cycling; trace metal analysis; redox chemistry in natural waters and soils
