Water Center Faculty

Water Center Core Faculty

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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

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Sharon Berk, Professor
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(931) 372-3451
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 435

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Tania Datta, Assistant Professor
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(931) 372-3446
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 333

 

Dr. Datta is a newly appointed faculty member in the Center for Management, Utilization & Protection of Water Resources and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests include:

  • Wastewater Treatment Design
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Bioenergy Production
  • Resource Recovery from Wastewater
  • Role of Microbes in Natural Aquatic Ecosystem
  • Low-Cost Technologies for Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries

 

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Gordon Stearman, Professor
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(931) 372-3528
Prescott Hall (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.

 

Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit Faculty Working with the Center

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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

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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

Water Center Faculty

 

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Melinda Anderson, Interim Director
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(931) 372-3157
South Hall (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.

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Pedro Arce, University Distinguished Faculty Fellow-Professor & Chair
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(931) 372-3189
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 214 Webpage

Electrokinetics (Electrophoresis, Environmental Proteomics and Health Care Informatics, EK-Soil Cleaning) • Advanced Oxidation Processes (Non-thermal Plasma, Photocatalysis, UV Processes) • Nano-structured (soft) Materials (Morphological Effects, Optimization of Separation Efficiency) • Engineering Education (High Performance Learning Environments, Hi-PeLE; Critical Thinking, Innovation and Creativity).

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James Baier, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering Technology
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(931) 372-3193
South Hall (SOUT) 133

Expertise in agricultural engineering technology

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Michael Best, Professor of Agricultural Economics
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(931) 372-3154
South Hall (SOUT) 136 Webpage

Expertise in marketing, financial analysis of new enterprises, production of crops and livestock, high tunnel production of tomatoes, heirloom vegetables

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Joseph Biernacki, University Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor
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(931) 372-3667
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 312 Webpage

Cementious Systems • Biofuels Production • Engineering Education

Web Links

International Summit on Cement Hydration Kinetics
Web tools for research and education
                Cement Hydration Kinetics and Modeling
                Computer Aided Molecular Design
                Access the TTU X-ray Diffraction Laboratory
 

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Jeffrey Boles, Chairman
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(931) 372-3421
Foster Hall (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.

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Tammy Boles, Assistant Professor
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(931) 372-6123
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 438Resume/CV

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Janice Branson, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3373
South Hall (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

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Brian Carver, Assistant Professor of Biology
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(931) 372-3127
Pennebaker (PENN) 307

I am a mammalogist and vertebrate community ecologist.  I teach nonmajors biology courses and courses for biology majors at both the undergraduate and graduate level.  In addition to teaching, I am active in research and serve as major professor to graduate students as well as on committees for other graduate students. 

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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

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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

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Glenn Cunningham, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3826
Brown Hall (BRWN) 239

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Industrial Energy Conservation (Pumping, Process Heating, Compressed Air Systems), Co-Generation (Combined Heat and Power), Thermodynamics

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Dale Ensor, Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
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(931) 372-3493
Foster Hall (FOST) 125

 

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Billy Greene, Professor of Animal Science
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(931) 372-3418
South Hall (SOUT) 139

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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

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Evan Hart
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(931) 372-3516
Kittrell Hall (KITT) 205 Webpage

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John Harwood, Professor
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(931) 372-3473
Foster Hall (FOST) 222 Webpage
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Expertise in analytical/environmental chemistry; aquatic chemistry; analysis of molecular markers of pollution; ecological stressor analysis; sociology of environmental decision making.

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Steven Hayslette, Professor
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(931) 372-3146
Pennebaker (PENN) 307 Webpage

Expertise in avian behavior, ecology and management, particularly in relation to doves and pigeons

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Faisal Hossain, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3257
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 332 Webpage
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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.

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David Huddleston, P.E., Professor
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(931) 372-3486
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 422

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational design coupling CFD with nonlinear optimization, water resources engineering, open-channel flows, fluid mechanics, applied aerodynamics

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Alfred Kalyanapu, Assistant Professor
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(931) 372-3561
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 334 Webpage
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I am interested in understanding the complex interactions of water with urban areas including energy, climate, infrastructure and sustainability.

Research Topics:

  • Climate Impacts
  • Computational Hydraulics & Hydrology
  • Hydraulic/Hydrologic Modeling
  • Urban Water Management
  • Regional Scale Flood Modeling & Simulation
  • GIS Applications in Water Resources Engineering

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H. Wayne Leimer, Professor of Geology
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(931) 372-3522
Kittrell Hall (KITT) 111 Webpage

Expertise in clay mineralogy, oil shale, asbestos and radon hazards, and aggregate characteristics.

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Peter Li, Professor of Geography
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(931) 372-3752
Kittrell Hall (KITT) 207 Webpage

Expertise in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology; environmental monitoring;  renewable resources, water quality, dam risk assessment

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Edward Lisic, Professor
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(931) 372-3425
Foster Hall (FOST) 224Resume/CV

Expertise in coordination chemistry of the transition metals and ligand synthesis. Synthesis of new thiosemicarbazone ligands and their  bioinorganic metal complexes and synthesis of phosphorous ligands and phosphonate materials.

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Roy Loutzenheiser, P.E., Professor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering
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(931) 372-3782
Clement Hall (CLEM) 201

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Jessica Matson, P.E., Professor
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(931) 372-3260
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 126

Engineering management including engineering economics, project management, process improvement, and systems modeling

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Hayden Mattingly, Professor
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(931) 372-6410
Pennebaker (PENN) 303

Expertise in freshwater fish ecology; conservation biology; endangered species management

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Kendall Moles
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(931) 372-6205
Pennebaker (PENN) 104

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Kenneth Morgan, Research Specialist
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(931) 372-6240
Pennebaker (PENN) 120

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Kendall Moles
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(931) 372-6205
Pennebaker (PENN) 104

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Justin Murdock, Assistant Professor
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(931) 372-3147
Pennebaker (PENN) 122 Webpage

I am a stream ecologist with a focus on algal ecology, nutrinet cycling, and how stream communites respond to disturbances such as flood and drying.

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Francis Otuonye, Associate Vice President for Research, Graduate Studies
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(931) 372-3374
Derryberry Hall (DBRY) 306

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Beth Powell, Visiting Instructor of English
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(931) 372-3345
Henderson Hall (HEND) 312BResume/CV

Teaching: Composition I and II. Research: Communication in Engineering.

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Joseph Redding, Professor
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(931) 372-3135
Pennebaker (PENN) 321

Expertise in comparative physiology, endocrinology, and impacts of environmental stress

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Thomas Roberts, Professor
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(931) 372-3138
Pennebaker (PENN) 309

Expertise in animal ecology; wetland ecology; habitat evaluation and management

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Holly Stretz, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
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(931) 372-3495
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 445Resume/CV

NANO!  Processing and morphological stability of nanoparticle heirarchies in organophotovoltaics and current sensors. • Nanocomposite structure and modeling • High temperature materials and ablatives • Fate and transformation of nanoparticles in water treatment • Novel hydrogel nanocomposites for medical diagnostics. • 

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Lenly Weathers PE, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-6539
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 339

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

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Hong Zhang, Professor
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(931) 372-6325
Foster Hall (FOST) 333 Webpage

Environmental/Analytical Chemistry.