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 75 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.

Gary A. Davis
J.D. University of Tennessee College of Law, 1980.
Environmental policy, sustainable development, cleaner product design, life-cycle assessment, pollution prevention, hazardous-waste policy, environmental law.

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.

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 involvement 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
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University.
Environmental evaluation of products and processes, activity-based cost analysis, life-cycle analysis, eco-industrial park design.

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 Huisingh
Ph.D., Biochemistry 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.

Dennis McCarthy
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Ecology.
J.D., College of Law, University of Tennessee
Editing, ecology, environmental policy, environmental law.

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.
Life Cycle Assessment, sustainable development, 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 Management, 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 Tschantz
B.S.C.E, Ohio Northern University;  M.S.C.E. &  ScD. Civil Engineering-Water Resources, New Mexico State University.
Technical assistance and engineering support to the Tennessee Water Resources Research Center (TN-WRRC) in water resources management, nonpoint source water pollution control, stormwater management, dam safety, erosion & sediment control, and workshop development and presentations in Phase II stormwater management and erosion prevention and sediment control.

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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