Fisheries Assessment 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 fisheries assessment. To learn more about each faculty member, follow the links from their names to their department or professional Web pages
Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit Faculty Working with the Center
Phil W. Bettoli, Professor and Assistant Unit Leader
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931/372-3086
Pennebaker Hall 205
Research Interests: assessing fish stocking programs, biotic integrity and conservation of imperiled fish species in regulated rivers, catch-and-release mortality, dynamics of exploited fish populations, status and conservation of commercially exploited paddlefish and sturgeon
James B. Layzer, Professor and Unit Leader
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931/372-3032
Pennebaker Hall 205
Research Interests: effects of stream regulation on aquatic biota, ecology and conservation of freshwater mussels, restoring and maintaining aquatic biodiversity, ecology of stream fishes
Tennessee Technological University Research Faculty
Daniel Combs, Professor
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(931) 372-6541
Pennebaker (PENN) 313
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 and Interim Chair
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(931) 372-3194
Pennebaker (PENN) 207A
Expertise in ecology of freshwater invertebrates; fish parasitology; feeding ecology and bioenergetics of freshwater fishes; biotic indices
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 Hall (PRSC) 233
Expertise in natural and engineered systems for control of contaminants in the environment
John Gunderson, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3250
Pennebaker (PENN) 319
Expertise in microbial ecology and evolution; detection of Legionella-like and other amoebal pathogens; molecular genetics; protozoology
Hayden Mattingly, Professor
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(931) 372-6410
Pennebaker (PENN) 303
Expertise in freshwater fish ecology; conservation biology; endangered species management
Joseph Redding, Professor
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(931) 372-3135
Pennebaker (PENN) 321
Expertise in comparative physiology, endocrinology, and impacts of environmental stress
