Lowell Adams, Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1976. Ecological engineering, natural resources management; wildlife ecology and management of urban open spaces, human-wildlife interactions in the metropolitan environment.

Andrew H. Baldwin, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1996. ecological engineering; natural resources management; ecology of natural, restored, and created wetlands, wetlands for wastewater treatment, disturbance and regeneration processes in wetland vegetation.

Jennifer G. Becker, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998. Bioenvironmental engineering; biological treatment processes, bioremediation of groundwater and soils, biodegradation, microbial ecology of natural and engineered systems, recovery of products from waste streams, waste management.

Gary K. Felton, Associate Professor and Water Quality Extension Specialist, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1987. Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; nonpoint source pollution, urban nutrient management, groundwater hydrology and quality, field sampling of water flow and quality.

Arthur T. Johnson, Professor,  Ph.D., Cornell University, 1969. Bioengineering; instrumentation, transport processes, modeling, exercise physiology and respiratory stress.

Patrick Kangas, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1983. Ecological engineering; natural resources management; tropical ecosystems.

Hubert Montas, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1996. Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; numerical methods in environmental biodynamics, transport modeling, information and decision support systems.

David S. Ross, Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1973. Bioengineering; horticultural engineering, controlled-environment agriculture, trickle irrigation, water and nutrient management, Web-based teaching, postharvest cooling.

Adel Shirmohammadi, Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1982. Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; water quality/transport modeling, nonpoint source pollution assessment using an integrated watershed approach.

Yang Tao, Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1991. PE. Bioengineering, bioimaging, machine vision, food-processing engineering safety, food safety and quality, biomaterial inspection, sensors and bioinstrumentation, robotics, and automation.

David R. Tilley, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Florida, 1999. Ecological engineering; industrial ecology, ecological air purification, remote sensing of ecosystem energetics, emergy evaluation, ecological decision-making.

Fredrick W. Wheaton, Professor, Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1968. PE. Bioengineering; aquacultural engineering, closed-cycle aquaculture, automation, seafood processing, modeling of aquacultural systems, seafood plant waste disposal and use.

Adjunct Faculty (Off-Campus)

Yud-Ren Chen, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1970. Visible/near-infrared spectroscopy, machine vision, image spectroscopy (multispectral and hyperspectral imaging), pattern recognition sensors for food safety and quality, real-time detection and inspection, instrumentation and automation.

Walter Rawls, Adjunct Professor, Research Hydrologist, USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD. Georgia Institute of Technology. 1976. Soil hydraulic properties, infiltration, soil water dynamics, hydrology and watershed modeling.

Emeriti

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