Energy, Environment and Resources Center

Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director

Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies

Gary A. Davis, Director

Office of Communications and Publications

David Brill, Director

Center for Geography and Environmental Education

Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director

Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program

Sheila Webster, Director

Systems Development Institute

Donald Alvic, Director

Pro-Dialogue

Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors

Water Resources Research Center

Tim Gangaware, Associate Director

For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134.

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Sponsors.  FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy, a quarterly journal published by the EERC to further public understanding of energy, science and technology, the environment, and economic development, has acquired a new sponsor. TVA has agreed to support the journal in the amount of $100,000 this fiscal year, and discussions with FORUM's editor in chief, Dennis McCarthy, are underway to conclude a four- to five-year contract. Complete issues of FORUM can be found at http://forum.ra.utk.edu.

Appointments.  EERC Executive Director Jack Barkenbus was appointed to the UT Interdisciplinary Council for Environment and Natural Resources. The council was created to advise the deans and provost on ways to bolster university missions in this thematic area. Also serving on the council are Gary Sayler (council chair and professor, Microbiology), Robert Auge (professor, Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design), Spiro Alexandratos (professor, Chemistry), Jon Coddington (professor and graduate program head, Architecture), Steven Driese (professor, Geological Sciences), James Kahn (associate professor, Economics), Raj Raman (associate professor, Agriculture & Biosystems Engineering), Mary Rogge (assistant professor, Social Work), Greg Reed (professor and department head, Civil & Environmental Engineering), and Terry Schultz (professor, Animal Science/Veterinary Medicine).

Presentations.  Research Scientist Mary Swanson of EERC's Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT), presented Life-cycle Impact Assessment Methodology as Part of a Life-cycle Design Toolkit for the Automobile in November at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. In a session titled Life-cycle Analysis for Pollution Prevention in Chemical Processes, which was sponsored by AIChE's Chemical Division, Swanson described CCPCT's life-cycle design toolkit and compared results from various life-cycle impact assessment methods. Swanson's presentation focused on impacts from gasoline production and its use in driving.

Senior Research Scientist David Feldman was invited by the Southern Governors Association to participate in a panel discussion in December on water supply issues in the South. The panel, part of a policy retreat for senior staff of southern governors, was held in Washington, D.C. The retreat, which addressed regional policy issues, included policy directors and advisory staff from 16 member states and two U.S. territories.  Feldman discussed the problems attending water supply and legal, institutional, and political impediments to their solution.

Publications.  Research Leader Mary English, along with lead author Bruce Tonn (associate professor, Graduate School of Planning) and Cheryl Travis (professor, Psychology) co-authored AA Framework for Understanding and Improving Environmental Decision Making, which has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.