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EERC ~ Staff
Dr. Jack Barkenbus has served as the Energy, Environment and Resources Center (EERC) executive director since 1995. His interdisciplinary background in political science and international studies provides an ideal perspective from which to guide the Center's multidisciplinary work. He follows in the footsteps of other strong Center leaders, including Dr. John Gibbons, EERC's first director and former science advisor to President Clinton, and E. William Colglazier of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Center's research staff now exceeds 25 and includes attorneys, biologists, political scientists, engineers, geographers, risk analysts, chemists, communicators, economists, information and computer-systems specialists, planners, sociologists, and educators. You will find brief statements about our researchers' expertise on this page; link to vitae to get additional information.
 EERC Executive Director
Jack N. Barkenbus
Ph.D., University of Denver, 1973.
Environmental policy decision-making, energy policy, integrated solid waste management, nuclear energy policy, arms control and nuclear weapons policy.
Professional Staff Members
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Robert A. Bohm
Ph.D., Washington University, 1971.
Economics, environmental and energy policy, public-sector spending, taxation, regional development, and forensic economics.
David Brill
M.A., Ball State University, School of Journalism, 1988.
News, feature writing, and editing on topics related to science and technology, waste management, health and fitness, adventure travel, and recreation.
Kimberly
L. Davis
M.S., Clemson University, 1988.
Cost-effectiveness of pollution-treatment technologies; environmental
biotechnology in the use of site characterization, detoxification, and
monitoring; risk-based corrective action.
Wayne Davis, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
David L. Doane
B.S., Industrial engineering, University of Tennessee
Energy research and outreach activities; educating for efficient use of
energy resources. Lighting, controls, and HVAC (heating ventilation and
air conditioning) systems. Calculates economic paybacks.
Mary R. English
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1991.
Environmental policy, decision-making processes, and ethics.
Gail W. Farris
College of Business, University of Tennessee.
Human resources development, information technology, facilities management, meeting/conference planning.
David Lewis Feldman
Ph.D., Missouri, 1979.
Public involvient in natural resource and technological decisions, international strategies to address global-scale environmental problems, environmental ethics, risk assessment.
Timothy R. Gangaware
M.S.P., Regional Planning, University of Tennessee.
Water-resources management, nonpoint source water pollution control, watershed assessment, environmental planning.
Jack R. Geibig
M.S., Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2002.
Environmental evaluation of products and processes, activity-based cost
analysis, life-cycle analysis, eco-industrial park design.
Ruth
Anne Hanahan
M.S., Ecology, University of Tennessee.
Water resources education and outreach activities. Adopt-A-Watershed,
Adopt-A-Stream, stream soil biorestoration demonstration projects, and
grassroots watershed initiatives. Water quality issues related to land
use; volunteer monitoring.
Greg Harrell
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering-Thermodynamics, Virginia Tech.
Technical assistance and engineering support services, including industrial
process energy assessments, specific process assessments, individual component
analysis, and short course presentations.
Donald G. Hodges
Ph.D., Forest Economics, University of Georgia.
Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries. Valuation of market and nonmarket
goods associated with forested ecosystems, land use change, public and
private land management, and hardwood timber markets. Economic aspects
of global climate change, site remediation technologies, and forest policy.
Coordinates UT’s Natural Resources Ph.D. program.
Donald Huisingh
Ph.D., Biochiistry and Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin,
1965.
Research and education on pollution prevention, cleaner production, and
industrial ecology. Toxics use reduction; selecting and evaluating safer
alternatives.
Richard J. Jendrucko
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia.
Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. Plant energy audits,
environmental training courses, industrial energy-conservation technologies,
and industrial and environmental management methods. Environmental benchmarking,
campus buildings energy management, and international technology transfer.
Robert Jones, Sociology
Dennis McCarthy
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Ecology; J.D., College of Law, University
of Tennessee.
Editing, ecology, environmental policy, environmental law.
Rosalyn McKeown
Ph.D. and M.A., Geography, University of Oregon.
Education for sustainability, environmental literacy, the socio-political-cultural
foundations of environmental education, curriculum development in water
and solid waste management education.
Wolf Naegeli
Ph.D. & M.S., Cornell University.
Sustainable communities, interactions of agriculture and forestry with climate, and nongovernmental environmental-conservation initiatives.
Jonathan G. Overly
M.S., University of Tennessee, 1997.
Fuel-cycle analysis, alternative fuels, Life-Cycle Assessment, sustainable development, industrial pollution prevention, energy efficiency, green power, environmental and energy evaluations.
William M. Park
Ph. D., Virginia Tech, 1980.
Solid waste management, including rural community issues, regional cooperation, unit pricing, and composting.
Jean H. Peretz
M.P.A., University of Tennessee, 1999.
Public policy impacts on hazardous-waste generation, subnational decisionmaking, solid-waste recycling, hazardous-waste generator performance, and toxicity reduction.
J. Warren Ranney
Ph.D., University of Tennessee.
Systems Ecology, Landscape Architecture, Forestry.
Mary E. Rogge
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1995.
Social and environmental justice, social welfare policy, public participation, consequences of environmental degradation and poverty on children and societally disenfranchised populations.
Maria L. Socolof
M.S., Environmental Health Managient, Harvard School of Public Health, 1991.
Environmental impact assessment, life-cycle assessment, exposure assessment, human health risk assessment, design for the environment, environmental evaluation of products and processes.
Mary B. Swanson
M.S.C.E., University of Minnesota, 1988.
Exposure assessment and human health risk assessment, fate and effects
of chemicals released into the environment, chemical ranking and scoring,
clean products and clean technologies.
Bruce Tonn, Planning
Bruce Tschantz
Sc.D. Civil Engineering-Water Resources, New Mexico State University
Surface-water hydrology and hydraulics in the areas of open channel flow,
urban and extreme event hydrology, nonpoint source pollution, erosion and
sediment control, sediment transport, and dam safety engineering.
Sheila Webster
Ed.D., University of Tennessee.
Education, business collaboration, and research.
Catherine A. Wilt
M.S.P., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1989.
Comparative environmental policy, extended product responsibility, solid-waste planning.
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