Biofuels and Environmental Catalysis

• Mark Crocker

  Designation: Associate Director
  Research: Application of heterogeneous catalysis to pollution prevention (air), science and technology of automotive catalytic converters, production of liquid biofuels from biomass via thermochemical routes.
  Courses: Biomass to Biofuels: A Short Course Overview (August 2008).
  Collaborative activities: Collaborative research projects with ORNL, Ford Motor Co., Honda, Arizona Public Service.
  Current activities: short courses, symposium chair
  Current funding: Department of Energy (Vehicle Technologies Program), Coordinating Research Council, Ford Motor Co., Honda, Department of Energy (Biomass Program), KY Governor's Office of Energy Policy.
  Expertise: Heterogeneous catalysis, reactor engineering, chemistry of NOx abatement, chemistry of biofuels production.
  Industrial contacts: Ford Motor Co., Honda, Arizona Public Service, Umicore Autocat, Shell Global Solutions, DCL Int. Inc.
  Keywords: Automotive, catalysis, selective catalytic reduction, NOx, biodiesel, biofuels, algae, olefin epoxidation.
  Other:
  Location: 2540 Research Park Drive 40511-8410
  Phone: (859) 257-0295
  Fax: (859) 257-0302
  Email address: mark.crocker@uky.edu
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Development and Community Engagement

• Sarah Mardon

  Designation: Program Coordinator II
  Research: community development; outreach; assessment of abandoned mine sites for reclamation
  Expertise: community liaison
  Keywords: outreach , community development, reclaimed mine lands, reclamation assessment
  Location: 1401 Corporate Ct. Henderson KY 42420
  Phone: (270) 827-3414 ext 26
  Fax: (270) 827-1117
  Email address: sarah.mardon@uky.edu
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Environmental and Coal Technology Group

• John(Jack) Groppo

  Designation: Engineer Associate - Program Manager I
  Research: Mineral and combustion ash benefication processing concepts centered on increasing by-product utilization.
  Expertise: lab and pilot-scale process development and evaluation and commercial-scale plant design and start-up
  Keywords: coal ash utilization, pilot-scale, combustion by-products, coal cleaning
  Location: 2540 Research Park Dr. Lexington, KY 40511-8479
  Phone: (859) 257-0254; Lab - 859-257-0371
  Fax: (859) 257-0360
  Email address: john.groppo@uky.edu
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Environmental and Coal Technology Group

• James C. Hower

  
  Designation: Scientist III
  Research: Coal and fly ash petrology; characterization and assessment of coal combustion byproducts; coal geology
  Courses:
  Collaborative activities: Collaborate with Kentucky Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, and researchers from a number of US and foreign universities.
  Current activities: Supervise undergraduate and graduate students. Team teach Coal Geology class in EES department.
  Current funding: U.S. Geological Survey
  Expertise: Petrology and geochemistry of coal and coal combustion products. Extensive experience sampling in coal mines, both surface and underground, and in power plants. I manage a laboratory with a number of research petrographic microscopes.
  Industrial contacts:
  Keywords: coal, petrology, fly ash, geochemistry
  Other:
  Location: 2540 Research Park Drive 40511-8410
  Phone: (859) 257-0261
  Fax: (859) 257-0360
  Email address: james.hower@uky.edu
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• Tom Robl

  Designation: Associate Director
  Research: benefication of ponded coal combustion waste at power plants; development of recovery techniques; benefication of IGCC slag; metals in coal combustion by-products
  Expertise: management and utilization of coal combustion products; environmental geochemistry; environmental assessment of waste disposal technology
  Keywords: combustion by-products, recovery, trace elements, geochemistry, fly ash
  Location: 2540 Research Park Dr. Lexington, KY 40511-8479
  Phone: (859) 257-0272
  Fax: (859) 257-0360
  Email address: tom.robl@uky.edu
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Policy, Management and Budget Finance

• Don J. Challaman

  Designation: Associate Director
  Research: Energy, environmental and agricultural policy; public policy; natural resources and environmental economics; government contracting and procurement
  Expertise: Public policy and administration; Natural resource and environmental economics; Energy, environmental and agricultural policy; Public finance; Organizational development and management; Government contracting and procurement; Governmental affairs and public relations; Intellectual property/new business development; Over twenty years of administrative experience in industry, government and academia
  Keywords: policy, natural resources, environmental policy, energy policy, agricultural policy, procurement
  Location: 2540 Research Park Dr. Lexington, KY 40511-8479
  Phone: (859)257-0222
  Fax: (859)257-0302
  Email address: don.challman@uky.edu
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Agricultural Economics

• A. Lee Meyer

  
  Designation: Extension Professor
  Research: Agricultural and Livestock Marketing, Sustainable Agriculture, Farm Transitions and Beginning Farmer Programs, Direct Marketing, Grass-based Beef Production
  Collaborative activities: University Senate; President's Sustainability Advisory Committee
  Expertise: Agriculture and Livestock Marketing, Direct Marketing, Sustainable Agriculture
  Keywords: sustainable, marketing, agriculture, livestock, beginning farmers
  Location: 416 C.E. Barnhart Building Lexington, KY 40546
  Phone: (859) 257-7276
  Fax: (859) 323-1913
  Email address: lee.meyer@uky.edu
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• Jack Schieffer

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Environmental and natural resource economics; Law and economics; Experimental economics; Applied contract theory. Current topics include water pollution and conservation, land use regulation policy, bioenergy, climate change
  Courses: AEC 424: Principles of Environmental Law; AEC 445G: Introduction to Resource and Environmental Economics; AEC 780-002: Special Problems in Natural Resource Economics; Introduction to MATLAB
  Current activities: NRES Steering committee, Precision Resource Mangement Committee, Undergraduate Program Committee
  Current funding: collaborator on EPA and OARDC research
  Expertise: Environmental and natural resource economics
  Keywords: Environmental, natural resource, economics, regulation, contracts, mechanism, economics, law
  Location: 405 C.E. Barnhart Bldg. Lexington, KY 40546-0276
  Phone: (859) 257-7246
  Fax: (859) 323-1913
  Email address: jack.schieffer@uky.edu
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• Roger

  Designation: Lecturer
  Research: Biodiversity Conservation, Forest Recreation, Protected Areas, Land Tenure, Forest Industry Sustainability, Global Warming, Urban Forestry, Invasive Species, Biogeography
  Courses: AEC101 - Introduction to the Economics of Food and Agriculture ; AEC305 - Principles of Agricultural Marketing
  Expertise: forest recreation; biodiversity conservation; land tenure
  Keywords: conservation, biodiversity, forest, land, policy
  Location: 304 Charles E Barnhart Building 40546-0276
  Phone: (859) 257-7257
  Fax: (859) 323-1913
  Email address: rogerbrown@uky.edu
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Animal and Food Sciences

• Bernhard Hennig

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Nutrition and Toxicology; utilization of tissue culture model systems in the study of nutrition and atherosclerosis, with emphasis in the role of nutrients on biochemical and molecular mechanisms of vascular endothelial cell function, injury and protection; injurious effects of individual fats and protection from such injury by certain vitamins and minerals; contaminant effects
  Collaborative activities: Joint appointments with the Center of Nutritional Sciences, Graduate Center for Toxicology and the Center of Membrane Sciences and a member of the Gill Heart Institute
  Current activities: Director UK Superfund Basic Research Program, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry; research fellow and member on various nutrition councils
  Expertise: molecular and cell nutrition
  Keywords: tissue, nutrition, atherosclerosis, injury, protection, cytokine, endothelial, molecular, mechanisms, cytotoxic, environmental, contaminants, pollutants, pathology, therapeutic
  Location: 413 W P Garrigus Building 40546-0215 -or- Charles T Wethington Building 40536-0200
  Phone: office: (859) 323-4933 x81387 or x81343; lab: (859) 323-4933 x81375
  Fax: (859) 257-1811
  Email address: bhennig@email.uky.edu
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• James A. Boling

  Designation: Professor
  Research: Influence of Age and Nutrient Metabolism in Beef Cows
  Courses: ASC 771
  Expertise: Beef cattle nutrition and metabolism
  Keywords: Glutamate, Madin-Darby Bovine Kidney (MDBK), cells, Ergopeptide Bromocryptine, Journal of Animal Science, Blood, Plasma, Amino Acid, Cows
  Location: 207 W. P. Garrigus Building, Lexington, KY 40546-0215
  Phone: (859) 257-1546
  Fax: (859) 323-1027
  Email address: jboling@uky.edu
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• James C. Matthews

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Nutritional physiology emphasizing the molecular study and characterization of nutrient (and drug) transporters and enzymes that either produce or metabolize transporter substrates. Emphasis on the study of tissue, age, and/or diet dependent expression and activity of proteins; relationship between energy and/or nitrogen status of cells and regulation of enzyme/transported "functional units"
  Courses: ASC 683; ASC 689; ABT 395
  Expertise: Nutritional physiology; Gene and protein expression profiling
  Location: 213 W. P. Garrigus Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0215
  Phone: (859) 257-7513
  Fax: (859) 257-5318
  Email address: jmatthew@uky.edu

• Merlin D. Lindemann

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Dietary modifications of N and P related to performance and waste management; determination of feeding values of new byproduct feeds; evaluations of trace minerals for swine; assessment of responses to organic chromium supplementation; effects of omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids on reproduction and immunological responses; management/equipment on swine performance
  Expertise: Swine nutrition and management
  Keywords: swine, nutrition, management, dietary, waste, management, byproduct, feeds, immunological, omega-6, omega-3, fatty acids
  Location: 607 WP Garrigus Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0215
  Phone: (859)257-7524
  Fax: (859)323-1027
  Email address: merlin.lindemann@uky.edu
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Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

• Carmen Agouridis

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Stream Restoration, Riparian Zone Management, Mined Land Reclamation, Hydrology of Surface Waters, Soil Erosion and Sediment Control, Water Quality Assessment and Modeling, Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture, Geographical Information Systems
  Courses: 1. BAE 532 Introduction to Stream Restoration, developed and teach; 2. BAE 750: Hydrologic Modeling; 3. Stream Restoration Section of NRC 201: Data Collection Techniques; 4. BAE 750: Stream Restoration Assessment
  Collaborative activities: 1. Workman, S.R, S.F. Higgins, and A. C. Abnee. Cane Run and Royal Springs Watershed Based Plan, Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, Division of Water, $666,564, 9/2007-9/2013, Collaborator for Surface Water Data Acquisition Program.; 2. Workman, S.R, S.F. Higgins, and A. C. Abnee. Cane Run and Royal Springs Watershed Based Plan, Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, Division of Water, $454,343, 9/2007-9/2013, Collaborator for Surface Water Data Acquisition Program
  Current funding: 1. Guy Cove Stream Restoration II: Increase, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, $516,824, 6/2006-6/2013, Principal Investigator.; 2. Guy Cove Stream Restoration II, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, $1,069,776, 6/2006-6/2013, Principal-Investigator.; 3. Evaluating Post-Mined Land Reforestation through the Spatial Assessment of Soil Genesis, Precision Resource Management, USDS-CSREES Special Grants, $65,272, 10/2006-10/2009, Co-Investigator.; 4. Workman, S.R, S.F. Higgins, and A. C. Abnee. Cane Run and Royal Springs Watershed Based Plan, Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, Division of Water, $666,564, 9/2007-9/2013, Collaborator for Surface Water Data Acquisition Program.; 5. Workman, S.R, S.F. Higgins, and A. C. Abnee. Cane Run and Royal Springs Watershed Based Plan, Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet, Division of Water, $454,343, 9/2007-9/2013, Collaborator for Surface Water Data Acquisition Program;
  Expertise: Design, assessment, data acquisition (monitoring) techniques
  Industrial contacts: Numerous consulting (engineering and environmental) and coal companies
  Keywords: Stream restoration, mined land reclamation, coal, riparian zones, watershed, hydrology, Soil, Erosion, Sediment, Water Quality, Environmental, Agriculture, Geographical Information Systems
  Other: United States Department of Interiors 2007 Cooperative Conservation Award to ARRI Core and Academic Teams (member of the Academic Team)
  Location: 207 Charles E Barnhart Building 40546-0276
  Phone: 859 257-3000 x207
  Fax: 859 257-5671
  Email address: carmen.agouridis@uky.edu
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• Czarena Crofcheck

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Bioprocessing, specifically downstream processing of value-added proteins and the conversion of biomass to chemicals and fuels.
  Courses: BAE 202: Probablity and Statistics; BAE 402/403: Senior Design; BAE 648: Energy and Mass Transfer in Biosystems Engineering; BAE 599/750: Thermochemical Processing of Biomass
  Expertise: Biofuels and Bioprocessing
  Keywords: Bioprocessing, Biofuels, Probablity, Statistics, Energy, Mass Transfer, Thermochemical, Processing, Biomass
  Location: 212 C.E. Barnhart Building Lexington, KY 40546-0276
  Phone: (859) 257-3000 ext 212
  Fax: (859) 257-5671
  Email address: crofcheck@uky.edu
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• Donald G. Colliver

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Residential housing and environmental design; analysis and simulation of building envelope heat transfer and renewable energy production and use; analysis of building design weather data.
  Courses: BAE / ME 580 - HVAC; BAE 625 - Energy Modeling
  Expertise: Residential housing and environmental design; analysis and simulation of building envelope heat transfer and renewable energy production and use; analysis of building design weather data.
  Keywords: housing, environmental, simulation, building, heat transfer, energy, building, design, weather
  Location: 211 C.E. Barnhart Building Lexington, KY 40546-0276
  Phone: (859)257-3000 ext.211
  Fax: (859)257-5671
  Email address: dcolliver@uky.edu
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• Michael D. Montross

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Post-harvest handling and storage of agricultural commodities; Biomass collection, characterization, and processing; Biomass as a feedstock for renewable energy and chemicals
  Courses: BAE 201: Economic Analysis of Biosystems; BAE 447: Bioprocess Engineering Fundamentals; BAE 599 - PC Data Acquisition and Control
  Current activities: Granular Mechanics and Flowability of Granular Materials; Drying, Storage and Germination Characteristics of Selected Specialty Grains; Comparison of Two NIR Monitors to Measure Value Added Components in Corn and Wheat Fields; Optimization of Aeration Systems for Value-Added Crop Preservation; Kernel Volume Change and Estimated Stress Created in Bins During Reconditioning of Corn and Soybeans
  Expertise: Drying, storing, and processing of grains and oilseeds; granular mechanics; finite element modeling.
  Keywords: Grain packing, grain volume, inventory management, alternative harvest methods, biomass storage, feedstocks, bioenergy
  Location: 106 C.E. Barnhart Building Lexington, KY 40546-0276 Lexington, KY 40546-0276
  Phone: (859) 257-3000 ext. 106
  Fax: (859) 257-5671
  Email address: michael.montross@uky.edu
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• Sue E. Nokes

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Research Projects: 1. modeling of biological systems (crop and microbial) 2. Biological statistics 3. Fermentation
  Courses: BAE 102 Introduction to Biosystems Engineering; AEN/CME 680 Biochemical Engineering; AEN 750: Computer Simulation of Biological Systems; BAE 447 Bioprocess Engineering Fundamentals
  Collaborative activities: Animal Sciences, Chemical Engineering
  Expertise: Solid-State fermentation for the production of industrial enzymes; Modeling of compressed solvent extraction processes for enhanced biomass conversion using thermophilic bacteria; Production of enzymes using thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria in solid state cultivation.
  Industrial contacts: Alltech Biotechnology; Martek, WestVaco, Protor and Gamble, Whirlpool, BCI, Cargill, Sylvan
  Keywords: fermentation, industrial, enzymes, modeling, extraction, biomass, thermophilic, bacteria, solid state, cultivation
  Location: 128 C.E. Barnhart Building Lexington, KY 40546-0276 Lexington, KY 40546-0276
  Phone: (859) 257-3000 ext. 128
  Fax: (859) 257-5671
  Email address: sue.nokes@uky.edu
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Community & Leadership Development

• Lissa Pohl

  
  Designation: Program & Outreach Coordinator
  Research: transformational leadership
  Expertise: how people embody leadership competencies; equine guided leadership education
  Keywords: leadership, community, non-profit, equine, education, Nutrition, Psychology
  Location: 710 Garrigus Lexington, KY 40546-0215
  Phone: (859)-257-2748; (859) 699-0025
  Email address: lissa.pohl@uky.edu
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Entomology

• Bruce A. Webb

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Molecular virology and development; current focus is on the polydnaviruses which cause development and immunological disruptions; other active projects relate to baculovirus infections and potential relationship between baculovirus and polydnavirus infections
  Expertise: virology and molecular genetics
  Keywords: viruses, polydnaviruses, parasitic wasps, developmental, immunological, physiology, lepidopteran, genetic, baculovirus, Eastern Tent Caterpillars, infections
  Location: S225 Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-7415
  Fax: (859)-323-1120
  Email address: bawebb@uky.edu
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• Charles Fox

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Ecology and evolution of life histories (body size, egg size, aging, maternal effects, inbreeding depression), insect-plant interactions (diet evolution, adaptations), Insect behavioral ecology (egg laying decisions, sexual selection on body size/sexual dimorphism)
  Courses: Developing course in evolutionary conservation biology
  Current activities: Undergraduate genetics
  Expertise: evolution ecology; insect behavior and life histories
  Keywords: ecology, evolution, genetics, Life Histories, Insect-Plant Interactions, Behavioral Ecology, genetics
  Location: S225 Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-7474
  Fax: (859) 323-1120
  Email address: cfox@uky.edu
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• James D. Harwood

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Insect Ecology, Molecular Ecology, Biological Control, Predator-prey interactions, Invasive Species
  Current funding: USDA-BRAG $359,703; KSEF $95,733; USDA-New Crops $63,000; KSEF $19,997
  Expertise: PCR, Monoclonal antibody production, ELISA
  Keywords: ecological interactions, generalist predator, spiders, beetles, terrestrial ecosystems, dynamic interactions, field research, molecular gut-content analysis
  Location: S225 Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-4264
  Fax: (859)-323-1120
  Email address: james.harwood@uky.edu
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• John J. Obrycki

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: biology, predatory behavior, and population ecology of insect predators with a goal of providing the basis for development of sustainable pest management systems
  Courses: Biological Control, Sustainable pest management
  Expertise: Biological ecology, integrated pest management, ecology of predatory insects
  Keywords: biology, predatory behavior, population ecology, Coccinellidae, sustainable, alfalfa production, prey dynamics, crop, pest management systems, Plant Pathology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies
  Location: S225 Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-7450
  Fax: (859) 323-1120
  Email address: john.obrycki@uky.edu
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• Subba R. Palli

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Insect physiology, molecular biology, endocrinology, applied biotechnology
  Expertise: functional genomics and proteomics, developmental and hormonal regulation of gene expression, gene switches
  Keywords: regulatory mechanisms, physiological, molting, metamorphosis, diapause, apoptosis, pest insects, pest management, genome, RNA, probes, antibodies, developmental transcriptome, proteome , metabalome, toxicogenomics, pharmacogenomics, ecosystem
  Location: S225 Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-4962
  Fax: (859)-323-1120
  Email address: rpalli@uky.edu
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• Xuguo "Joe" Zhou

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Insect Integrative Genomics, metagenomic and functional analysis of cellulolytic enzymes; insect toxicology; cultural entomology
  Expertise: Insect Integrative Genomics
  Keywords: Insect, Genomics, Toxicology, Plant Protection, termite, cellulose, gene expression, molecular markers
  Location: S225 Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-3125
  Fax: (859)-323-1120
  Email address: xuguozhou@uky.edu
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Forestry

• Christopher Barton

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Forest hydrology; characterization of headwater seep wetlands; reforestation; reclamation of mining lands
  Expertise: forest hydrology, watershed management
  Keywords: forestry, land management, reclamation, monitoring, wetlands, seeps, stream restoration
  Location: 214 T.P. Cooper Building (Office: 203) Lexington, KY 40546-0073
  Phone: (859) 257-2099
  Fax: (859) 323-1031
  Email address: barton@uky.edu
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• John J. Cox

  
  Designation: Adjunct Assistant Professor
  Research: Wildlife Ecology and Management; Conservation Biology; Restoration Ecology; Human Dimensions in Conservation; Environmental Ethics; Invasive Species; Pedagogy
  Courses: FOR 230: Conservation Biology; FOR 599: Environmentalism: Survey of a sociopolitical movement; FOR 599: The Chihuahuan Desert: Ecology, Conservation Policy and Practice; FOR 599: Florida's Ecosystems: Ecology, Conservation Policy and Practice; FOR 770: The wild canids: ecology, management, and conservation; FOR 770: The wild felids, ecology, management and conservation; FOR 770: Ecology and management of wild ungulates in North America
  Expertise: wildlife and conservation biology; management; ecology
  Industrial contacts: Society for Conservation Biology The Wildlife Society, National and Kentucky Chapters Kentucky Ornithological Society Kentucky Society of Natural History
  Keywords: Wildlife, Conservation Biology, Ecology, management, Restoration, Human Dimension, Environmental Ethics
  Location: 214 T.P. Cooper Building (office 208) Lexington, KY 40546-0073
  Phone: (859) 257-9507
  Fax: (859) 323-1031
  Email address: jjcox@uky.edu
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• Mary A. Arthur

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Three primary research focal areas: the role of forest change and species composition in ecosystem processes, prescribed fire in upland oak ecosystems in the central Appalachians, and invasive species and the alteration of ecosystem dynamics.
  Courses: Forest Ecology (FOR 340); Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (FOR 612); Forestry graduate seminars (FOR 770): previous topics: Ecological Stoichiometry, Interface Between Community and Ecosystem Ecology; Ecosystem Management(Forests and Global Change)
  Current funding: National Science Foundation, US Forest Service
  Expertise: Forest nutrient cycling, prescribed fire, forest ecology, forest ecosystem dynamics
  Keywords: species, ecosystem processes, fire, upland oak, Appalachians, invasive species, ecosystem dynamics, Forest Ecology, graduate, seminars, Ecological Stoichiometry, Ecosystem, Management
  Location: 214 T.P. Cooper Building (Forestry) Off # 103 Lexington, KY 40546-0073
  Phone: (859) 257-2852
  Fax: (859) 323-1031
  Email address: marthur@uky.edu
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• TERRELL T. "RED" BAKER

  
  Designation: Chairman
  Research: Riparian research focuses on vegetation dynamics in riparian habitat, livestock effects and livestock/wildlife interactions on functional processes within southwestern riparian areas, and management strategies to appropriately and sustainably graze southwestern riparian systems. Forestry-related research focuses on ecology and management in southwestern National Forests silvicultural treatments to reduce wildfire potential and improve forest understory production and watershed processes, and mechanical harvesting effects on forest soils, runoff, and erosion.
  Expertise: Riparian management, public policy, land management
  Keywords: Forest Biology, Forest, Resources Riparian, vegetation dynamics, habitat, livestock, management, sustainably, graze, ecology, southwestern, silvicultural, wildfire, watershed, harvesting, soils
  Location: 214 T.P. Cooper Building (office 106) Lexington, KY 40546-0073
  Phone: (859)257-7596
  Fax: (859) 323-1031
  Email address: terrellbaker@uky.edu
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Horticulture

• John Snyder

  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Plant/Insect Interactions; spider mite resistance mechanisms; natural products in plant defense
  Expertise: Plant/Insect Interactions
  Keywords: plant, defense mechanisms, insects, resistance
  Location: N318 Agricultural Sciences Center 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-5635
  Fax: (859) 257-2859
  Email address: snyder@uky.edu
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Landscape Architecture

• Brian D. Lee

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Predicting urbanization in Central KY; watershed characterization; characterization of KY forest blocks; landscape scale indicators; housing price differences in central KY
  Courses: LA 841 (fall); LA 855/NRC 555 (spring); LA 956/NRC 556 (every other fall); LA 959 (every other fall); LA 975 (spring)
  Expertise: Geospatial technologies, Land use modeling and planning, Watershed characterization
  Keywords: watershed, geospatial, landscapes, community planning, land use
  Location: S305 Agricultural Science Building 40546-0091
  Phone: (859)257-7205
  Email address: blee@uky.edu
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Nutrition and Food Science

• Kwaku Addo

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Food Product Development, Transglutaminase-catalyzed Wheat Gluten-Muscle Protein Interactions, Cereal Chemistry
  Courses: NFS 101: Human Nutrition and Wellness; NFS 304: Experimental Foods; NFS 591: Special Problems in Foods and Nutrition
  Collaborative activities: Dr. Addo's research activities focus on the general area of cereal chemistry with emphasis on new food product development, enzyme-catalyzed wheat-muscle protein interactions and Rheology. His publications include several articles, abstracts, and proceedings in national and international journals such as Cereal Chemistry, Journal of Food Science, and Food Research International. He is a recipient of the AACC International award on Rheology. In addition to serving as an ad-hoc reviewer for several food science journals Dr. Addo is also a member of the AACC International, the Institute of Food Technologists and the Cereal Chemistry Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
  Current activities: Dr. Addo's current instructional/advising responsibilities include teaching undergraduate nutrition and dietetics courses and supervising graduate student research in the college. He has been recognized for outstanding teaching by the University of Kentucky.
  Expertise: cereal chemistry, new food product development, enzyme catalyzed, wheat-muscle protein interactions and rheology
  Keywords: Nutrition, Food, Transglutaminase-catalyzed, Wheat Gluten, Protein, Cereal Chemistry
  Location: 102 Erikson Hall, University of Kentucky
  Phone: (859) 257-7784
  Email address: kaddo01@uky.edu
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• Robert Perry

  
  Designation: Instructor and Food Systems Initiative Coordinator
  Research: Sustainable food and farm diversification; connecting research and extension efforts with governmental agencies, advocacy groups, farmers, and chefs
  Courses: NFS 342: Quantity Food Production
  Current activities: Coordinator for the Food Systems Initiative
  Expertise: sustainable food systems
  Keywords: sustainable, food, local growers, farm diversification networks
  Location: 102 Erikson Hall 40506-0050
  Phone: (859) 257-1692
  Email address: bob.perry@uky.edu
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Office of the Dean

• M. Scott Smith

  
  Designation: Dean
  Research: Soil Science, nitrogen in soils, agricultural practices on soil productivity and environmental quality
  Expertise: Nitrogen in soils, soil quality, soil microbiology, ecology of bacteria acting on soil N
  Keywords: soils, ecology, nitrogen, soil microbiology
  Location: S123 Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-4772
  Fax: (859) 323-2885
  Email address: mssmith@uky.edu
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Plant and Soil Sciences

• A.D. Karathanasis

  Designation: Professor
  Research: Thermodynamics and pedogenic processes, colloidal transport and environmental contaminants, constructed wetland technology and wastewater treatment, soil surveying
  Courses: PLS 396 Soil Judging; PLS 406: Advanced Soil Judging; PLS 455g: Wetland Delineation; PLS 456g: Constructed Wetlands; PLS 573: Soil Morphology and Classification; PLS 697P: Special Topics In Plant & Soil Science; PLS 721: Pedogenic Processes; PLS 741: Clay Mineralogy
  Collaborative activities: USDA-NRCS, Kentucky Department of Health
  Current funding: (1) Karathanasis, A.D. J.H. Heick Endowed Professorship Research Support grant. 2003-2009 ($ 30,000). (2) Mueller, T.G., T.J. Neiman, H. Cetin, and A.D. Karathanasis. Precision Land Use, Conservation, and Management: Improving Soil Survey Data with Geospatial Technologies. USDA-Special Grants, 2005-2008 (Co-PI), $ 62,100. (3) DAngelo, E., A.D. Karathanasis, and J. Grove. Changes in Livestock Antibiotic Levels and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Numbers Along Topohydrosequences in Western Kentucky Agroecosystems. USDA-Special Grants, 2005-2008 (Co-I), $ 74,975. (4) C.R. Dillon, T.G. Mueller, J.A. Gandonou, F.Sikora, S.A. Shearer, T. Stombaugh, and A.D. Karathanasis. Economic and agronomic variable rate fertilizer application: Precision timing and on-the-go sensor technologies. USDA-Special Grants, 2006-2009 (Co-PI), $100,000. (5) Karathanasis, A.D. Soil Morphology Assessments for On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems. KY Dept. of Health, 2007-2009, (PI), $ 90,000. (6) Karathanasis, A.D. Soil Laboratory Characterization Support for the Kentucky Cooperative Soil Survey Program, USDA-NRCS, 2007-2009, (PI), $ 20,000. (7) Mueller, T.G., T.S. Stombaugh, L. Wells, A.D. Karathanasis, and C.J. Matocha. 2007-2010 (Co-PI). Measuring soil properties with near-infrared spectral sensors. USDA-Special Grants, $75,000. (8) Wendroth, Ole, M.S. Coyne, R.L. McCulley, A.D. karathanasis, and J.H. Grove. 2008-2010 (Co-PI). Dynamics of Soil State Variables and Related Processes Across a Land Use Gradient in Spatial and Temporal Transition. USDA-CREES-NRI, $322,000.
  Expertise: Environmental Soil Mineralogy, Pedology, Geochemistry, Wetlands, X-Ray Diffraction, Thermal Analysis, Optical Microscopy, Wet Chemistry Analytical Techniques
  Keywords: Colloid Characterization, Colloid-Induced Contaminant Transport, Soil Survey, Mineral Weathering, Soil Pedogenic Processes, Soil Solution Geochemistry, Wetland Delineation, Constructed Wetlands , Pedology
  Location: N122K Agriculture Science Center North LEXINGTON, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-5925
  Fax: (859) 257-3655
  Email address: akaratha@uky.edu
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• Brad Lee

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Environmental quality; water quality; soil properties; land use planting
  Expertise: Water quality
  Keywords: water quality, soil, soil amendments, land use planting
  Location: N212 Agriculture Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-0156
  Fax: (859) 323-1952
  Email address: brad.lee@uky.edu
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• Cathy L. Bowers

  
  Designation: Administrative Assistant
  Research: Undergraduate and graduate degree programs
  Current activities: Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Programs
  Expertise: student degree programming
  Keywords: students, degrees
  Location: 1405 Veterans Drive, Plant Science Building (Office:305) Lexington, KY 40546-0312
  Phone: (859) 218-0715
  Fax: (859) 257-7125
  Email address: cbowers@uky.edu
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• Chad Lee

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Crop Production, Crop Management, No-Till Management
  Courses: PLS 412 - Grain Crops: course for seniors
  Collaborative activities: United Soybean Board project is with five other universities, all with faculty in agronomy. Kentucky projects are with other faculty in Plant and Soil Sciences. IPM project is with Plant and Soil Sciences, Plant Pathology, Entomology, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Ag Economics
  Current activities: Grain Crops Academy - in-depth lessons on grain crops production. Audience: producers. Extension meetings, newsletters, websites, publications - 80% of my DOE
  Current funding: United Soybean Board $75,000; Kentucky Soybean Board $100,000; Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association $10,000; Kentucky Corn Promotion Council $10,000; IPM, $25,000
  Expertise: Corn, soybean and small grains production
  Industrial contacts: seed and agrichemical industry Certified Crop Advisors
  Keywords: corn, soybean, wheat, grain crops, no-till, extension
  Other: Production agriculture, especially no-till agriculture can be a sustainable practice in Kentucky and around the world. Kentucky was the pioneer in no-till agriculture and can be a leader internationally.
  Location: 423 Plant Science Building 40546-0312
  Phone: (859) 257-3203
  Fax: (859) 257-7874
  Email address: cdlee2@uky.edu
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• Chris J. Matocha

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Soil and environmental chemistry
  Courses: Gen100 - Issues in Agriculture ; Pls366 - FUNDAMENTALS OF SOIL SCIENCE. ; Pls671 - Soil Chemistry; Pls741 - Clay Mineralogy;
  Expertise: Soil Chemistry, soil mineralogy
  Keywords: soil chemistry, iron, remediation, amendments, heavy metals
  Location: N122R Agricultural Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-9312
  Fax: (859) 257-3655
  Email address: cjmato2@uky.edu
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• David McNear

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Rhizosphere Science, Soil Chemistry, metal speciation, trace metal chemistry, environmental remediation, biofortification, microbial population dynamics and C and N turnover as influenced by chemical components in plant root exudates, phytoremediation, phytomining, metal homeostasis in plants, multi-trophic interactions
  Courses: PLS366 Fundamentals of Soil Science
  Collaborative activities: Current research funding and projects involve scientists from diverse backgrounds
  Current funding: USDA-NRI, EPA
  Expertise: Rhizosphere science, synchrotron x-ray spectroscopy, synchrotron x-ray florescence, synchrotron x-ray microspectroscopy, XRD, x-ray diffraction, HPLC, liquid chromatography, FTIR, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, ATR-FTIR, Bacterial Bioassays, hydroponics, aeroponics
  Keywords: Rhizosphere, soil chemistry, root exudates, biogeochemistry, geochemistry, critical zone, plant-soil interface, x-ray spectroscopy, spectroscopy, synchrotron spectroscopy, tall fescue, hyperaccumulation, phytoremediation, phytomining, alyssum murale, FTIR,
  Location: N122S Agriculture Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-8627
  Fax: (859) 257-2185
  Email address: dave.mcnear@uky.edu
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• Elisa Marie DAngelo

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Soil and water biogeochemistry; aerobic and anaerobic fate and transport of inorganic and organic contaminants in upland soils, wetlands, and aquatic environments; microbial ecology, pollutant bioavailability, bioremediation,
  Courses: PLS 104 - Plants, Soils, & People: A Global Perspective; PLS 450g: Biogeochemistry;
  Current activities: Graduate student training
  Current funding: SB 271, NSF, USDA
  Expertise: Soil and water biogeochemistry, Gas chromatography, colorimetry, HPLC, microbial community analysis using molecular genetic and phospholipid fatty acid and multivariate statistical techniques.
  Keywords: soil, water, biogeochemistry, microbial, ecology, pollutant, bioavailability, transport, bioremediation, ecology, gene, community dynamics,
  Location: N122J Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-8651
  Fax: (859) 257-3655
  Email address: edangelo@uky.edu
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• George Wagner

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Cd, Zn, Mn accumulation in plants; Lowering Cd contents of food and tobacco; Mechanisms of plant tolerance to high Cd, Zn, Mn; Bioengineering of plants to create factories for producing industrial feedstock chemicals, pesticides, etc.
  Courses: PLS 622: Physiology of Plants I; PLS 623: Physiology of Plants II
  Collaborative activities: basic research with UK colleagues, and with a colleague from Baylor University
  Current activities: Teach graduate level Plant Science
  Current funding: Private industry
  Expertise: Biochemistry, Plant Physiology, Plant Molecular Biology
  Keywords: heavy metals, plants, ion tolerance, food contamination, plant biotechnology, contamination
  Location: 200L Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center 40506-0236
  Phone: (859) 257-5974
  Fax: (859) 323-1077
  Email address: gwagner@uky.edu
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• Jason Unrine

  
  Designation: Assistant Research Professor
  Research: Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology, Analytical Chemistry, Soil and Water Environmental Quality, Soil Microbiology
  Current funding: U.S. EPA 520,000
  Expertise: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Bioanalytical and Environmental Analytical Chemistry, ICP-MS, light scattering, XAS, x-ray diffraction, XANES, XRF, laser ablation, FFF, Field flow fractionation, metalloproteomics
  Keywords: Mercury, Arsenic, Selenium, Nanotechnology, Nanoparticle, Nanomaterial, Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc Oxide, amphibian, earthworm, nematode, reptile, coal, aquatic, terrestrial, toxicology, bioanalytical
  Location: N212-N Agricultural Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-1657
  Fax: (859) 257-3655
  Email address: jason.unrine@uky.edu
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• Maelor Davies

  Designation: Professor
  Research: New applications for plants and crops in sustainable and environmentally compatible production of medicinal and industrial materials. Agricultural biotechnology and its contributions to better environmental stewardship.
  Collaborative activities: Many commercial collaborations.
  Current activities: Occasional talks, presentations.
  Expertise: Plant and agricultural biotechnology
  Industrial contacts: Extensive.
  Keywords: Ecology, plants, crops, sustainable, medicinal, industrial, Agricultural biotechnology, environmental, biochemistry, commercial relations
  Location: 419 Plant Science Building 40546-0312
  Phone: (859) 218-0749
  Fax: (859) 257-7874
  Email address: mdavies@uky.edu
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• Michael Barrett

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Weed Science - Mechanisms of Herbicide Selectivity and Metabolism
  Courses: PLS104 - PLANTS, SOILS, AND PEOPLE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
  Expertise: weed science
  Keywords: Weed Science, Herbicide, Metabolism
  Location: 1405 Veterans Drive, 409 Plant Sciences Bldg 40546-0312
  Phone: (859) 218-0712
  Fax: (859) 257-7874
  Email address: mbarrett@uky.edu
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• Nadine Kabengi

  
  Designation: Assistant Research Professor
  Research: Fate and Transport of environmentally relevant contaminants; NanoGeoSciences and its implications & applications; toxicity of manufactured nanoparticles
  Current funding: EPA, DOE
  Expertise: Environmental Soil Chemistry, Calorimetry
  Keywords: soil, environmental chemistry, nanosciences, calorimetry, thermodynamics
  Location: N212-K Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859)-257-3214
  Fax: (859)-323-1952
  Email address: nadine.kabengi@uky.edu
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• Ole Wendroth

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Soil Physics; Soil Landscape Research; Soil Water and Solute Transport at Various Scales; Soil Hydraulic Properties; Spatial and Temporal Statistics; Soil Structure; Remote Sensing of Canopy and Crop Yield Prediction; Land Use and Water, Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics; Spatial Correlation Behavior of Field Scale Solute Transport; Land Use and Solute Leaching
  Courses: PLS 575: Soil Physics; PLS 655: Spatial and Temporal Statistics Graduate Level Course PLS 576 Soil Physics-Lab
  Collaborative activities: Regional Soil Physics Collaborative Project W1188: Characterizing Mass and Energy Transport at Different Scales Kentucky Geological Survey – solute transport through the vadose zone on karst systems, UK Wheat Science Group UC Davis (D.R. Nielsen) – Soil Physics, Spatial and Temporal Statistics
  Current activities: Graduate Level Course Graduate Level Course PLS 576 Soil Physics-Lab
  Current funding: USDA-NRI Soil Processes; College Precision Resources Management; Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association
  Expertise: Spatial Analysis and Precision Resource Management; Soil Physics; Soil Hydraulic Properties; Lab and Field Scale Unsaturated Water and solute Transport
  Keywords: Soil Physics, Soil Landscape Research, Soil Water and Solute Transport , Soil Hydraulic Properties, Spatial and Temporal Statistics, Agronomy, Soil Structure, Soil Management; Biomass
  Other: Technical Editor Agronomy Journal Associate Editor Vadose Zone Journal Associate Editor Soil Science Society of America Journal Associate Editor Journal of Environmental Quality (1998-2007) Associate Editor Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science Editorial Board Soil &Tillage Research
  Location: N122-M Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-4768
  Fax: (859) 257-3655
  Email address: owendroth@uky.edu
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• Paul Bertsch

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Environmental chemistry and toxicology; Molecular environmental science; Environmental remediation science; Fate, transport, and bioavailability/toxicity of contaminants, nutrients, and manufactured nanomaterials
  Courses: HON 211 World Food Issues III: Living with Limits
  Collaborative activities: All funded projects are interdisciplinary activities integrating molecular environmental science and molecular biology
  Current funding: US-EPA, US-DOE, NSF
  Expertise: Soil and Environmental Chemistry; Biogeochemistry
  Keywords: chemical speciation; transport, fate, bioavailability and toxicity of metals /metalloids and manufactured nanomaterials; biogeochemistry; Synchrotron X-ray microprobe; Environmental, toxicology, remediation, contaminants, nanomaterials
  Location: N212M Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-1651
  Fax: (859) 323-1952
  Email address: paul.bertsch@uky.edu
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• Rebecca McCulley

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Grassland Ecology, Plant-Fungal endophyte interactions, Ecological consequences of Land Use Change, Grassland Ecosystems and Climate Variability
  Courses: PLS 104 - Plants, Soils, & People: A Global Perspective
  Current funding: USDA-NRI $600K, DOE $376K
  Expertise: Grassland ecology
  Keywords: climate change, land use change, grassland ecosystems, biogeochemistry, ecosystems, ecology
  Location: N222-D Agriculture Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-6388
  Fax: (859) 323-1952
  Email address: rebecca.mcculley@uky.edu
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• Tom Mueller

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Precision conservation; google earth and google maps for land use assessment; carbon mapping; map quality,; soil sensors
  Courses: Soil Use and Management (PLS 468G); Topics in Biosystems and Ag Engineering: Precision Agriculture (BAE 599)
  Collaborative activities: Interact with faculty in Plant and Soil Sciences and Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
  Current activities: GST working group, PLS web committee, ASA/CSSA,/SSSA membership and society identity committee, NCERA site specific crop management proposal sub committee
  Current funding: USDA Special Grant
  Expertise: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Soil and Water Conservation, and Terrain Analysis, Geospatial analysis for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
  Keywords: Soil science, GIS, GPS, Terrain Analysis, resource conservation, mapping,
  Location: N122G Agriculture Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-8887
  Fax: (859) 257-3655
  Email address: mueller@uky.edu
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Plant and Soil Sciences and Administration

• Larry Grabau

  
  Designation: Associate Dean for Instruction, Professor
  Research: 1) Organic Grain Cropping Systems--this area of research focuses on developing sustainable (environmentally, economically, and socially) organic cropping systems. One specific project makes use of newly emerging technology to provide for one-pass roll-down of an existing cover crop and no-till planting of corn. We believe this particular cropping system could provide environmental goods in terms of reduced energy use, improved weed control, lowered soil energy, and enhanced moisture availability. 2) No-till wheat production--this project aims to uncover constraints to high yields under no-till management of wheat. Successful development of such a cropping system could reduce soil erosion, cut down on energy use, and enhance on-farm profits.
  Courses: HON 115: World Food Issues II: Your Daily Bread; NRC 471: Senior Problem in Natural Resources; NRE 301--Introduction to Natural Resource Conservation and Management NRC 471--Senior Capstone in Natural Resource Conservation and Management PLS 366--Fundamentals of Soil Science HON 115--Your Daily Bread (part of World Food Issues track in UK's Honors Program)
  Current activities: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Natural Resource Conservation & Management major Governor's Scholars Program, Morehead State Universities, Views of Nature and Food Decision-Making World Food Issues Honors Program study tours to Ecuador, 2007, 2008, 2009
  Current funding: Engaging Agricultural and Non-agricultural Students in Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Sustainable Agriculture. Grant from USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant Program. Co-PI with Mark Williams (PI), Victoria Bhavsar, and Mike Mullen. 2005-08. $141,274. (2) Organic Field Crops Research Initiative, Part 2. PI. Competitive grant from the New Crop Opportunities Center. 2007-08. $54,055. (3) Organic Field Crops Research Initiative, Part 3. PI. Competitive grant from the New Crop Opportunities Center. 2008-11. $63,160.
  Expertise: organic cropping systems no-till agriculture
  Keywords: organic grains, corn, soybean, wheat, hairy vetch, winter rye, weed control, no-till, organic technology, natural resources, conservation
  Location: N122F Agriculture Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-1885
  Fax: (859) 257-3655
  Email address: lgrabau@email.uky.edu
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Plant Pathology

• Christopher Schardl

  
  Designation: Harry E. Wheeler Chair in Plant Mycology; Director UK-AGTC
  Research: Symbiotic fungi, particularly grass endophytes; molecular biology of plant-fungus interactions; fungal genetics and metabolism; pharmaceuticals and neurotoxins produced by fungi; biological plant protection; evolution of mutualism and parasitism; molecular systematics of fungi
  Courses: PPA 500: Physiology of Plant Health and Diseases; ABT 460: Introduction to Molecular Genetics
  Expertise: mutualistic symbioses between plants and endophytic fungi; director advanced genetic technologies center
  Keywords: genetics, endophyte, fungi, symbiotics, molecular biology
  Location: 201 F Plant Sciences Building 40546-0312
  Phone: (859) 257-7445 ext. 80730
  Fax: (859) 323-1961
  Email address: schardl@uky.edu
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Research Administration

• Nancy M. Cox

  
  Designation: Agricultural Experiment Station Director and Associate Dean for Research
  Research: Reproductive physiology of farm animals
  Current activities: KY Clean Fuels Coalition; Interim Exec Director Gluck Equine Research Foundation; Planning for Equine Institute
  Expertise: swine reproductive performance, environmental estrogens
  Keywords: reproductive, physiology, farm, animals, equine, estrogens, swine, food systems
  Location: S-129 Agricultural Science Building North 40546-0091 Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-3333
  Fax: (859) 257-3393
  Email address: nancy.cox@uky.edu
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Research Administration, Ag Experiment Station, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

• Steve Workman

  
  Designation: Assistant Dean for Research and Associate Director
  Research: Groundwater quality, soil physical property measurement, stream/aquifer interactions, hydrologic/water quality simulation modeling, unsaturated and saturated flow
  Courses: BAE 437 land and Water Resources Engineering; BAE 438g/CE 460 Fundamentals of Groundwater Hydrology; BAE 537 Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
  Collaborative activities: Civil Engineering, Plant and Soil Science, Forestry, Geological Sciences
  Current funding: International Education and Training for Food, Fiber, and Energy Production by S.R. Workman, R.S. Gates, J. Roccanova, and TS. Stombaugh. Submitted to USDA International Science and Education. $100,000 for 3 years (Funded) Cane Run and Royal Spring Watershed Based Plan and Implementation by S.R. Workman, S.F. Higgins, A.A. Gumbert, C.T. Agouridis, L. Ormsbee, and J. Stringer . Submitted to 2008 Department of Environmental Protection Agency 319 Program. $1,868,178 for 7 yrs (Funded) Development of a GIS model for Estimating Stream and Groundwater Flows by S.R. Workman Submitted to the 2006 SB271 Water Quality Program, $95,458 for 3 years (Funded)
  Expertise: Bioenvironmental engineering; hydrologic simulation; groundwater quality
  Keywords: Groundwater quality, soil physical property measurement, stream/aquifer interactions, hydrologic/water quality simulation modeling, unsaturated and saturated flow
  Location: S-127 Ag Science Center North 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-3333
  Fax: (859) 257-3393
  Email address: steve.workman@uky.edu
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Community & Leadership Development and Sociology

• Keiko Tanaka

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: 1) Sustainable agriculture and food systems - (a) sustainable agriculture research in Japan and (b) local initiatives for making agriculture and food economy sustainable in Kentucky. 2) Science-based food safety governance - (a) cross-cultural comparison in a case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) between Japan and the US
  Courses: SAG 201: Cultural Perspectives on Sustainability; SAG 490: Capstone in Sustainable Agriculture; HON 115: World Food Systems II - Daily Bread; SOC 517: Rural Sociology; SOC 565: Environmental Sociology; SOC 637: Sociocultural Dimensions of Economic Development; SOC 640: Science, Agriculture & Development
  Collaborative activities: (a) Science-Based Food Safety Regulatory Systems: Professionalization and Professional Ethics Surrounding Risk Analysis. Directed by Yoko Niiyama, Kyoto University, Japan. Funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (2007-09). (b) NC1036-Multistate Project: "Research and Education Support for the Renewal of an Agriculture of the Middle"
  Current activities: Undergraduate and graduate teaching in Sociology (A&S College); Honors World Food Systems track (UK Honors); Undergraduate curriculum in Sustainable Agriculture (AG College)
  Current funding: Dr. and Mrs. C. Milton Coughenour Research Endowment
  Expertise: sustainable agriculture, governmental policy, regulations and programs; sociology of agriculture and food; sociology of science and technology; rural sociology; Japanese society and culture; Chinese society and culture; bibliographic analysis
  Keywords: sociology; social science; social impact; sustainable agriculture; local food economy; science and society; agri-food systems, safety governance
  Location: AG: 704 Garrigus Lexington, KY 40546-0215 and A&S:1575 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: AG: 859 257-7574 and A&S:859-257-6878
  Fax: AG: 859 257-4354
  Email address: ktanaka@email.uky.edu
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Anthropology

• Christopher A. Pool

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: ethnicity, cultural ecology, geoarchaeology, ceramic analysis, political and economic archaeology, resource exploitation, tropical lowlands, evolution of complex societies, Mesoamerica
  Courses: ANT 770 Geoarchaeology, ANT 650 Theory in Archaeology, ANT 652 Demographic Archaeology, ANT 322 Ancient Mexican Civilizations, ANT 582 Senior Integrative Seminar
  Current activities: Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology
  Expertise: evolution of complex societies, interactions among environment, economy, ideology, and political practice, variability analysis
  Keywords: Evolution, societies, political, archaeology, ethnicity, cultural ecology, ceramic analysis, archaeometry, geoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, resource exploitation, tropical lowlands, evolution of complex societies
  Location: 203B Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-2710
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: capool0@pop.uky.edu
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• Deborah L. Crooks

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: nutrition security, food security; political economy of food and nutrition; poverty, gender, and ethnicity in food and nutrition; child growth and population well-being; politics of health and healthcare; human adaptation and adaptability
  Courses: ANT 230: Intro to Biological Anthropology; ANT 333: Contemporary Human Variation; ANT 303: Topics in Food Nutrition: Food Politics: ANT 440: Anthropological Perspectives on Child Growth and Development; ANT 603: Human Biology in Context ofSociocultural change: ANT 770-2: Anthropology of Food and Nutrition; ANT 774 - food and food security in a Changing World ANT 350 - Food politics ANT 333 - Contemporary human variation ANT 230 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology
  Current activities: I teach courses on topics that focus on the human/environment interaction and the consequences for human well-being. Gwembe Tonga Research Project
  Current funding: National Science Foundation
  Expertise: biocultural anthropology; human adaptation; political economy of child growth; nutrition and food security human adaptation/human adaptability
  Keywords: adaptation, environmental constraints, well-being, Biocultural, nutritional, security, political, economy, inequality, Sociocultural, International, Health, malnutrition
  Location: 201A Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-4654
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: dlcrooks@uky.edu
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• Erin Koch

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies , Georgia and the former Soviet Union, infectious disease, global health, incarceration, postsocialism
  Courses: ANT 301: History of Anth Theory; Ant 329: Ant of Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Socialism and Post-Socialist Change; ANT 350: Globalization and Health; ANT 429: Survey of Medical Anthropology; ANT 490 Anthropological Research Methods; ANT 610: History of Theory in Anthropology; ANT 646: Global Health: People, Institutions, and Change; ANT 765: Advanced Seminar in Medical Anthropology; ANT 770: Biomedical Cultures and Power
  Expertise: health inequalities, biomedicine, global health, infectious disease, humanitarianism, postsocialism
  Keywords: Medical anthropology, ethnography, globalization, health, microbes, infectious disease, humanitarianism, global health
  Location: 218 Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-7312
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: erin.koch@uky.edu
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• Lisa Cliggett

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Sustainability and environmental change; Household political economy migration; kinship-family and social organization; gender, aging; anthropological demography; longitudinal research; qualitative methods; sub-Saharan Africa; Gwembe Tonga Research Project
  Courses: ANT 399-002 Fld/Comm Based Ed in Anth; ANT 581-002 Ind Work-Anth; ANT 660-001 Ethnographic Research; ANT 662-002: Res Design; ANT 748-002 Master's Thesis Res; ANT 749-002: Dissertation Res; ANT 750: Grad Field Study in Anth; ANT 767-002 Dissertation Res Credit; ANT 768-002: Res Cr Masters Degree; ANT 769-002: Res Cr Doctors Degree; ANT 790-002: Research Problems in Anthropology
  Collaborative activities: NSF project on Migration and Environmental Change with geographers at McGill University and California State University Dominguez Hills NSF project on Food Security in the context of Migration with bio-cultural anthropologist at U. Kentucky (Anthropology) NSF funded field school on anthropological research methods in Zambia and Bolivia with biological anthropologist at Brandeis University.
  Expertise: Ecological anthropology, economic anthropology, political ecology, qualitative research methods, GIS and remote sensing from qualitative social science perspective, community studies, multiscale analysis.
  Keywords: anthropology, environmental change, human environment linkage, political ecology,Environmental Stewardship, Sustainability, farming systems, deforestation, famine, population
  Other: GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS External Grants and Fellowships (PI or CoPI) 2008-2009
  Location: 216 Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-2796
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: lisa.cliggett@uky.edu
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• Mary K. Anglin

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Medical Anthropology, breast cancer/reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; cultural anthropology, gender, political economy; Appalachia and U.S., Latin America
  Courses: ANT 350: Globalization, ANT 429: Survey of Medical Anthropology; ANT 470G: Regional Ethnographies of North America; ANT 490: Ethnographic Research Methods; ANT 601: Contemporary Theories in Anthropology; ANY 645: Anthropology and Epidemiology; ANT 765: Advanced Seminar in Medical Anthropology; ANT 766: Gender, Ethnicity, and Health; ANT 770: Human Rights in Anthropological Perspective
  Expertise: ethnographic research in North America, rural Southern Appalachia, urban West Coast of US; culture, power and political economies; environmental contamination and risks to health and livelihood; women's health; critical analyses of race, class, and gender research in Appalachia: environmental sustainability, labor relations research in urban US: health effects of environmental contaminants (with special reference to breast cancer), the intersection of the environmental justice movement and health movements
  Keywords: environmental sustainability, environmental justice, environmental contaminants, social movements, Appalachia, US, gender, ethnicity, race, oppression, agency, ethnographic, medical, public health, human rights
  Location: 212 Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-1051
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: manglin@uky.edu
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• Renee M. Bonzani

  
  Designation: Lecturer
  Research: Paleoethnobotany; South American Archaeology; Ethnobotany; Origins of Agriculture; Transition to State-Level Societies
  Courses: ANT102-001, 004, 005: Archaeology: Mysteries & Controversies; ANT 351-001: Special Topics, Archaeology: S. American Archaeology; ANT 399-019: Fld/ Community Based Education in Anthropology; ANT 581-019: Independent Work-Anthropology
  Current activities: Society for American Archaeology Anthropology
  Expertise: Paleoethnobotany and ethnobotany in its relationship to changing environments, landscape use by humans and subsistence strategies.
  Industrial contacts: Collaborative work with various Cultural Resource Management firms in the Midwest and eastern United States.
  Keywords: Anthropology, Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Ethnobotany, Environment, Subsistence.
  Location: 201F Lafferty Hall
  Phone: (859) 257-2671
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: renee.bonzani@uky.edu
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• Richard W. Jefferies

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Paleoenvironmental research, lithic analysis, cultural ecology, settlement archaeology, human-environmental interactions, prehistoric hunter-gatherers
  Courses: ANT 101: Introduction to Anthropology; ANT 221: Native People of North America; ANT 240: Introduction to Archaeology; ANT 242: Origins of New World Civilizations; ANT 541: Archaeological Method and Theory; ANT 342: North American Archaeology;ANT 555: Archaeology of Eastern North America; ANT 585: Field School in Archaeology; ANT 602: Culture Dynamics and Change ; ANT 612: Culture History; ANT 651: Archaeological Data Analysis (Lithics); ANT 651: Archaeological Data Analysis (Ceramics); ANT 654: Archaeology of Political Systems; ANT 691: Cultural Resource Management Clerkship; ANT 770: Hunter-Gatherer Societies; ANT 770: Emergence of Cultural Complexity; ANT 770: Mississippian Chiefdoms; ANT 770: Middle Range Societies of Eastern North America; ANT 770: The Archaeology of Death
  Expertise: hunter-gatherers of eastern north America, exchange and interaction, culture change, social networks, lithic analysis, cultural ecology, the emergence of cultural complexity
  Keywords: social networks, lithic analysis, cultural, ecology, prehistoric, Native People, North America, Culture Dynamics, Hunter-Gatherer, Complexity, Mississippian Chiefdoms
  Other: Involved in research on long-term environmental change on the Georgia (US) coast.
  Location: 204A Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-2860
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: rwjeff1@pop.uky.edu
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• Sarah Lyon

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Economic anthropology, coffee & conservation, agritourism, agricultural production, sustainable and ethical consumption, globalization, Latin America & the United States
  Courses: ANT 311: Anthropological Perspectives on Globalization; ANT 324: Contemporary Cultures of Latin America; ANT 301: History of Anthropological Thought; ANT 338: Economic Anthropology; ANT 352: Anthropology of Tourism; ANY 610: History of Anthropological Theory; ANT 734: Economic Anthropology, ANT 770: Globalization; ANT 538: Beyond Economic Growth
  Expertise: Economic anthropology, globalization, impacts of globalization on Latin America & the United States communities, coffee & conservation, agritourism, agricultural production, sustainable and ethical consumption
  Keywords: Economic, sustainable, markets, globalization, agritourism, agriculture Latin America, United States, fair trade
  Location: 202 Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-5038
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: sarah.lyon@uky.edu
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• Scott Hutson

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Ancient Mayan culture, Soil chemistry, political and social organization; household archaeology; statistics; identity; practice theory; mesoamerica; public archaeology.
  Courses: ANT 240: Intro to Archaeology; ANT 242: Origins of New World Civilization; ANT 350: The Ancient Maya; ANT 650: Archaeological Theory; ANT 652: Demographic Archaeology; ANT 770: Space, Place and Landscape; ANT 770: Archaeology of Identity
  Current funding: National Geographic Society 11,631
  Expertise: Archaeological excavation, Phosphorous testing, settlement dynamics; mayan culture; dwelling and identity
  Keywords: Political, Social, Statistics, Identity, Mesoamerica, Soil Chemistry, dwelling, maya, political economies
  Location: 208 Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
  Phone: (859) 257-9642
  Fax: (859) 323-1959
  Email address: srhuts2@email.uky.edu
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Biology

• Brent Palmer

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Conservation of wildlife species; reproductive studies on wild and captive species to optimize breeding of endangered species; effects of environmental endocrine disruptors
  Courses: BIO 103: Basic Ideas of Biology; BIO 199: Research Experience in BIO; BIO 395: Res in Bio
  Expertise: comparative reproductive biology and endocrinology specializing in lower vertebrates
  Keywords: conservation, wildlife, reproductive, endocrinologist, vertebrate, extinction, reptiles, amphibians
  Location: B03 Morgan Biological Science Building, 40506-0225
  Phone: (859) 257-5824
  Fax: (859) 257-1717
  Email address: bpalmer@email.uky.edu
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• David Westneat

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Ecology of reproductive and social behavior in birds, avian mating patterns in songbirds, avian life history traits, effects of climate on reproductive performance in birds, development of signals and receivers in social groups, genetics of mating patterns and reproductive performance, habitat and behavioral strategies affecting hybridization in two neotropical warblers.
  Courses: BIO 559 Ornithology; Bio 375 Behavioral ecology and sociobiology,; Cognitive science, graduate behavioral ecology and life histories; BIO 199: Research Experience in BIO
  Collaborative activities: Co-founder of Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and second director; co-editing graduate textbook in Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology
  Current funding: National Science Foundation; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
  Expertise: behavioral analysis, molecular tools for assessing mating patterns, microsatellites, statistical analysis of reaction norms, song recording and analysis, field measures of immune function, analysis of avian color patterns using spectrophotometer, molecular tools for sexing birds
  Keywords: behavioral ecology, life history, molecular ecology, climate change, passerine birds, plumage signals, paternity, reproductive behavior, social behavior
  Location: Morgan Biological Science Building, Office 105 MDR3, 40506-0225
  Phone: (859) 323-9499
  Fax: (859) 257-1717
  Email address: david.westneat@uky.edu - or - biodfw@email.uky.edu
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• Gisela Garcia-Ramos

  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Population dynamics and evolutionary theory; current research is addressing the effects of gene flow and local adaptations for studying the spatial distribution of species; application of basic concencepts of population biology to epidemiology - theoretical evaluation of biological agents for constraining pathogens within individuals
  Courses: BIO 199: Research Experience in BIO; BIO 395: Res in Bio; BIO 425: Seminar; Graduate Research
  Expertise: population dynamics and evolutionary theory; mathematical modeling
  Keywords: evolution, ecological dynamics, gene flow, adaptations, species distribution, epidemiology; immunodeficiency
  Location: 105 MDR3
  Phone: (859) 257-5306
  Email address: ggarc0@uky.edu
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• Nicholas McLetchie

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: My research program focuses on elucidating the events resulting in a species, region, or population being dominated by one sex. I view this question as investigating how adult sex ratios can be affected by offspring sex ratios, sex-specific differences in clonal expansion, and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these differential expansion patterns. In other words, I focus on understanding the inter-relationships among the transitions of the different life history stages and their effect on population phenomena.
  Courses: BIO 325: Ecology
  Collaborative activities: P. Crowley, L. Stark (UNLV), B. Mishler (UC-Berkeley)
  Expertise: microscopy, field, greenhouse and growth chamber studies, photosynthetic measurements, molecular-genetic analysis, physiological methods, mathematical modeling
  Keywords: sex ratios, sex specific traits, bryophyte ecology, reproduction, adapt, population, extinction
  Location: Morgan Biological Science Building, Office 102 MDR3, 40506-0225
  Phone: (859) 257-6786
  Fax: (859) 257-1717
  Email address: mclet@uky.edu
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• Philip H. Crowley

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Ecology, especially evolutionary and behavioral ecology; mathematical modeling, especially optimization and game theory; mating systems; life-history analysis; sex ratios; population dynamics, especially spatially distributed populations
  Courses: BIO 199: Research Experience in BIO; BIO 325 Introductory Ecology (active learning format); BIO 395: Res in Bio; BIO 425 Aggression and Social Dominance; BIO/ENT/FOR 606 Conceptual Methods in Evolutionary Ecology; BIO 770 Graduate Seminar; Graduate Research
  Collaborative activities: Many active research collaborations with colleagues (Nicholas McLetchie, Dave Westneat, Gisela Garcia-Ramos) and graduate students at UK and at other universities
  Current funding: Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund--$1.2M
  Expertise: experimental design, statistical analysis, mathematical modeling; evolutionary ecology
  Industrial contacts: None
  Keywords: ecology, evolution, dynamics, population, communities, life histories, behavioral ecology, modeling, populations, communities, sex ratios, game theory
  Location: Morgan Biological Science Building, Office 113 MDR3, 40506-0225
  Phone: (859) 257-1996
  Fax: (859) 257-1717
  Email address: pcrowley@email.uky.edu
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• Scott Gleeson

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Evolutionary ecology, plant adaptation and community consequences, current focus is the integration of multiple resources by plants in uptake and utilization
  Courses: BIO 102 Human Ecology; BIO 395 Res in Bio; Bio 425 Seminar; BIO 609 Population and Community Ecology
  Collaborative activities: Center for Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior
  Expertise: Photosynthesis, plant adaptation
  Keywords: plant, adaptation, evolutionary, ecology, ecosystems, taxonomic, foraging, life histories, competition, fields, forest, wetlands, pasture,
  Location: Morgan Biological Science Building, Office 109 MDR3, 40506-0225
  Phone: (859) 323-3284
  Fax: (859) 257-1717
  Email address: scott.gleeson@uky.edu
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Chemistry

• David A. Atwood

  
  Research: Environmental Chemistry
  Courses: Discovery Seminar: Energy and Our Global Environment
  Collaborative activities: geology, plant and soil science, civil engineering
  Current activities: K-12 demonstration: Minerals, Pigments, and Paints
  Expertise: Heavy metal remediation, ligand design and synthesis, contaminant sensing
  Industrial contacts: Merloc, LLC (Lexington, KY), Quansor Inc. (Lexington, KY)
  Keywords: mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic, nerve agents, thiols, sensing, remediation
  Location: 347 Chemistry-Physics Building 40506-0055
  Phone: (859) 257-7304
  Fax: (859) 323-1069
  Email address: datwood@pop.uky.edu

• John E. Anthony

  
  Designation: Hubbard Professor of Chemistry
  Research: Flexible thin-film electronics, energy, photovoltaics (solar cells), thermoelectrics, high-efficiency solid state lighting
  Courses: CHE 199-001 Res Experience in Chemistry; CHE 232-003 Organic Chemistry II; CHE 395-001 Independent Work in Chemistry; CHE 776-003 Grad seminar organic chemistry; CHE 780-001 Individual Work in Chemistry; CHE 790-001 Research in Chemistry
  Collaborative activities: Dye-sensitized solar cell work with Craig Grimes, Penn State; Thin-film photovoltaics research with George Malliaras, Cornell; Flexible displays research with Tom Jackson, Penn State; Low-cost RFID research with NIST; Organic solar cell research with Gui Bazan / Thuc Quyen, UC Santa Barbara; Thin-film electronics research with the Holst Centre, Netherlands
  Current activities: Teaching basic graduate organic chemistry courses
  Expertise: Organic synthesis, thin-film electronics fabrication, device characterization
  Industrial contacts: Motorola - research into fluorescent-light powered photovoltaics Merck Chemicals, Ltd. - collaborate on the discovery of new p-type materials for organic solar cells Solvay - currently negotiating a contract for research into new acceptor materials for solar cells Manufacture and sell solar cell materials through my startup, Outrider Technologies
  Keywords: Aromatic, molecules, electronic, synthesis, analysis, structure-property relationships, organic, transistors, solar cells, electricity, high-efficiency lighting
  Location: 27 Chemistry-Physics Building 40506-0055
  Phone: (859) 257-8844
  Fax: (859) 323-1069
  Email address: anthony@uky.edu
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Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Alan Fryar

  
  Designation: Associate Professor and Director of ERTL
  Research: hydrogeology and environmental geochemistry; chemical evolution during groundwater recharge and flow,; groundwater/stream interactions; natural attenuation of contaminants; mass transport in karst watersheds; water resources in developing countries
  Courses: GLY 585 (Hydrogeology); GLY 782 Indiv Work in Geology; GLY 790 Research in Geol Sci; and research credits hours for masters and PhD degrees
  Collaborative activities: Groundwater recharge and water quality in the N'Fis and Fes basins, Morocco (with Prof. Lahcen Benaabidate, Faculte des Sciences et Techniques - Saiss [Fes, Morocco], and Prof. Nour-Eddine Laftouhi, Faculte des Sciences - Semlalia [Marrakech, Morocco]) Groundwater flow, water chemistry, and arsenic occurrence in the lower Ganges basin, India (with Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee, Alberta Geological Survey) Groundwater flow and pathogen occurrence in Inner Bluegrass karst basins (with Prof. Gail Brion, UK Civil Engineering, Jim Currens, Kentucky Geological Survey, Dr. Jim Dinger, Kentucky Geological Survey, Randy Paylor, Kentucky Geological Survey, and Dr. James Ward, WR HydroSolutions LLC)
  Current funding: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, Kentucky Dept for Environmental Protection, US DOE
  Expertise: field studies, experimental studies, mathematical modeling of groundwater flow, mass transport, and reactions in the subsurface
  Industrial contacts: Dr. James Ward, WR HydroSolutions LLC
  Keywords: hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry, karst, natural attenuation, groundwater, sedimentary, aquifers, contaminants, pathogens
  Location: Slone Research Building 40506-0053
  Phone: (859) 257-4392
  Fax: (859) 323-1938
  Email address: alan.fryar@uky.edu
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• Christopher S. Romanek

  Designation: Associate Professor and Director of ERTL
  Research: Stable isotope and sedimentary geochemistry of carbonate minerals; biomineralization and mineral-microbe interactions; isotope tracers in biological and inorganic systems; ecology; planetary geochemistry
  Courses: Aqueous Geochemistry; Isoptope Geochemistry; Introduction to Research in Geochemistry; Advanced Topics in Geochemistry; Search for Life in the Universe
  Collaborative activities: DOE report: Carbon Sequestration, State of the Science. DOE report: Biogeochemistry-2000. Advisory Board Member for USC-Aiken
  Current activities: Advisory Board Member: University of Georgia
  Current funding: NASA, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
  Expertise: low temperature and aqueous geochemistry, stable isotope and sedimentary geochemistry; mass spectrometry, cavity ring down spectroscopy; electron-beam imaging/elemental analysis, and other micro-analytical techniques.
  Industrial contacts: Exxon Mobil Corporation BP America Sanford Ltd., NZ Sealord Products Ltd., NZ Talley
  Keywords: stable isotopes, low temperature geochemistry, aqueous geochemistry, mineralogy, environmental remediation, acid mine drainage, water, soil, air, pollution, sedimentary geochemistry, carbonate, biomineralization, geomicrobiology, geobiology, environmental microbiology, planetary geochemistry, isotope tracers, mass spectrometry, cavity ring down spectroscopy, elemental analysis
  Location: 216 Slone Research Building 40506-0053
  Phone: (859) 257-1952
  Fax: (859) 323-1938
  Email address: c.romanek@uky.edu
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• Dave Moecher

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: High temperature geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, environmental mineralogy, petrotectonics
  Courses: GLY 295 Geoscience Orientation; GLY 395 Special Problems in GEO; GLY 480-401: Adv Topics in GEO; GLY 730-401: Seminar Tectonic Strat; GLY 782 Indiv Work in GEO; GLY 790: Res in GEO; and masters and PhD research
  Expertise: X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, experimental mineralogy
  Keywords: petrotectonics, petrology, igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, geochemistry, thermodynamics, phase equilibria, isotopes, microbeam analysis, bedrock mapping, electron probe microanalyzer, field methods, mineralogy
  Location: 304 Slone Research Building 40506-0053
  Phone: (859) 257-6939
  Fax: (859) 323-1938
  Email address: moker@uky.edu
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• Dhananjay Ravat

  
  Designation: Professor and Chair
  Research: potential fields (gravity, magnetics, heat flow), geophysics theory and environmental applications
  Courses: GLY 490 Earth Dynamics; GLY 782 Ind Work in Geology; GLY 790 Research in Geo Science; and masters and PhD research
  Expertise: gravity and magnetics, solid-earth geophysics, tectonics, environmental geophysics
  Keywords: Potential fields, gravity, magnetics, heat flow, geophysics, regional, geo-hazards, tectonic , environmental
  Location: 305A Slone Research Building 40506-0053
  Phone: (859) 257-4726
  Fax: (859) 323-1938
  Email address: dhananjay.ravat@uky.edu
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• Frank Ettensohn

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Integration of sedimentary geology, stratigraphy, paleontology and regional tectonics to the areas of black-shale geology, carbonate paleoenvironments, and seismites.
  Expertise: sedimentary geology, soft sediment deformation, paleontology, echinoderm paleoecology and systematics
  Keywords: sedimetary, paleontology, paleoecology, soft-sediment deformation, tectonic controls, stratigraphy
  Location: 314A Slone Research Building 40506-0053
  Phone: (859) 257-1401
  Fax: (859) 323-1938
  Email address: f.ettensohn@uky.edu
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• Kent Ratajeski

  
  Designation: Lecturer
  Research: Igenous petrology, geochmistry, and geochronology of granitic rocks; geoscience education and online curriculum development
  Courses: GLY 220 Princ of Physical Geol; GLY 235 Fundamentals Geol II; GLY 360 Mineralogy
  Expertise: field mapping; whole-rock and mineral geochemistry; geochronology; interactive and web-based educational modules
  Keywords: petrology, geochemistry, geochronology, geoscience, education, igneous, field mapping, mineral, isotopes
  Location: 301 Slone Research Building 40506-0053
  Phone: (859) 257-4444
  Fax: (859) 323-1938
  Email address: kent.ratajeski@uky.edu
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• Pete Idstein

  
  Designation: Academic Coordinator
  Research: hydorgeology, environmental chemistry
  Expertise: karst, hydrogeology, dye traceing
  Keywords: dye-trace, hydrogeology
  Location: 212 Slone Research Building 40506-0053
  Phone: (859) 257-2770
  Fax: (859) 323-1938
  Email address: peter.idstein@uky.edu
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English

• Randall Roorda

  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: envirinmental literature and discourse; ecocriticism; american nature writing; composition and rhetoric; literary nonfiction
  Courses: ENG 230 Intro to Lit; ENG 401 Sp Topics in Writing; ENG 601: Essays and Creative Nonfiction; directed and PhD research studies
  Expertise: American nature writing; environmental literature
  Keywords: nature, writing, naturalists, ecocomposition, environment
  Location: 1251 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-1033
  Fax: (859) 323-1072
  Email address: rroorda@uky.edu
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Geography

• Alice Turkington

  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Geomorphology, weathering processes, urban environments, applied geomorphology, stone decay and conservation, boundary layer meteorology, geoecology, physical geography.
  Courses: Global Environmental Issues; Global Climate Change
  Current activities: Teaching undergraduate classes on 'Global Environmental Issues', 'Global Environmental Change', presenting in 'Focus the Nation', Big Blue Goes Green, etc.
  Expertise: Scanning Electron Microscope, X-Ray diffraction, Sediment size analysis, environmental chamber experimental studies; weathering geomorphology, stone decay and conservation
  Keywords: rock, weathering, stone decay, stone conservation, theoretical, methodological, weathering, geomorphology, landscape, evolution, subaerial, bedrock,dynamics, boundary layer meteorology, geoecology, physical geography
  Location: 1473 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-9682
  Fax: (859) 323-1969
  Email address: alice.turkington@uky.edu
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• Matthew Zook

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Economic Geography, Economic Development, Sustainable Economic Development, internet commerce
  Courses: GEO455
  Current funding: NGS Grant, NSF Grant looking the adoption of E-commerce and affects on demand for transportation
  Expertise: Technological change and shifting geographies of globalization; geography of e- commerce; internet geographies
  Keywords: globalization, technical, societal, politics, culture, regulation, innovation, Economic, Geography, Development, Sustainable
  Location: 1475 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-8334
  Fax: (859) 323-1969
  Email address: zook@uky.edu
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• Michael Kennedy

  
  Designation: Associate Professor Emeritus
  Research: Determining ways in which Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software can possess data accuracy and quality control information; computer cartography; computers for urban design and planning
  Current activities: Teach Geography GIS courses: GEO 309 and GEO 409G
  Expertise: Geographic Information Systems NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Writing
  Industrial contacts: Photo Science (Lexington, KY) PlanGraphics (Frankfort, KY) John Wiley and Sons, publishers Taylor & Francis, publishers CRC Press, publishers
  Keywords: GPS, GIS, GNSS, Dot Probability Paradigm, computer, geographic, quality control, spatial
  Location: 1451 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-6494
  Fax: (859) 323-1969
  Email address: kennedy@uky.edu
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• Michael Kennedy

  Designation: Associate Professor Emeritus
  Research: Accuracy of Geographic Information Systems; Global Positioning Systems; computer cartography, computers for urban design, planning
  Courses: Teach GEO 309 and GEO 409G
  Current funding: John Wiley and Sons (for textbook); Taylor and Francis (for textbook)
  Expertise: Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning Systems, computer cartography, Writing textbooks
  Industrial contacts: Photo Science, Lexington, KY; PlanGraphics, Frankfort, KY
  Keywords: Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning Systems, GIS, GPS, design, cartography
  Other: GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing are at the core of environmental data collection and methods used for solution to environmental problems.
  Location: Bradley Hall
  Email address: kennedy@uky.edu
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• Morgan Robertson

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Political ecology, neoliberalism and the environment, ecosystem services, wetlands policy, wetlands ecology, restoration ecology, commodification of nature, carbon credits, wetlands banking, Australian environmental policy
  Courses: Markets and Nature; Political Ecology; Water Resources Policy (under development -- possible collaboration)
  Collaborative activities: exploring possibility of collaboratively-taught Water Resources Policy class with a physical geographer or hydrologist.
  Expertise: participant observation research, interview-based research, qualitative economic analysis, rapid ecological assessment technique use and evaluation, wetlands conservation policy, political ecology
  Industrial contacts: US EPA Headquarters, Wetlands Division; National Mitigation Banking Association; EcosystemMarketplace.com; many individual ecosystem service entrepreneurs; US Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters, Regulatory Division; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Headquarters, Louisville district, Huntington District, Norfolk District)
  Keywords: market, economics, environmental, politics, philosophy, North America, Australia, wetland, credit markets, biodiversity, carbon, US Environmental Protection Agency, conservation, policy, Clean Water Act, ecology, nature
  Other: For three years (2004-2007) I was a Headquarters-level policy adviser on wetlands compensation and market-based environmental policy at the US EPA. I was on the four-person team that drafted the new federal rule on compensation for impacts to wetlands under the Clean Water Act (joint EPA-Army rule issued 4/10/08). I was on the EPA Interoffice Water Quality Trading Team, and have provided Supreme Court briefs for wetlands rulings. I have contacts throughout the emerging industry of ecosystem service provision and carbon trading throughout the United States and Australia, and am particularly well connected to entrepreneurs in wetland and habitat banking.
  Location: 1329 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-0591
  Fax: (859) 323-1969
  Email address: mmrobertson@uky.edu
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• Pradyumna P. Karan

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Development and environmental management, geography of multinational corporations, society-environment relations, sustainable development
  Courses: GEO 160; GEO 491G; Geo 718 Environmental Management in Development
  Collaborative activities: Working with scholars in Japan and India as well as the United States on environmental impact of the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
  Current activities: Teaching courses and graduate seminars on environmental management in development.
  Current funding: Centre for Development, New Delhi
  Expertise: Environmental and Social Changes in Japan, Western China and the Himalaya; Environmental Management in the Non-Western World
  Industrial contacts: Multinational Corporations in India and Japan
  Keywords: environment, development, social, non-Western, culture, sustainable, management, economy, nature, society, multinational corporations, Nepal, regional assessment, spatial, Asia-Pacific, Japanese Studies Committee
  Location: 1439 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-6953
  Fax: (859) 323-1969
  Email address: ppkaran@uky.edu
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• Tad Mutersbaugh

  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Ecologically sustainable and economically supportable rural development in Mexico; Human-Environment Interactions; Environment and Development, Mexico and Latin America
  Courses: Global Environmental Issues course Nature and Society Seminar Environment and Development
  Current activities: Geography Summer Institute in Oaxaca, Mexico Nature and Society Seminar
  Current funding: NSF, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation
  Expertise: Social Science Methods: Survey Methods, Ethnographic Methods, Spanish-Language ; Environmental Sampling: vegetation and water analysis; Organizational Analysis: Conservation Networks; Economic Analysis: Economics of Environmental Services; Political Ecology: Politics of Environmental Conservation
  Industrial contacts: Coordinadora Estatal de Productores de Cafe de Oaxaca; Organic Crop Improvement Association -- Latin American Regional Branch; Certimex: Mexican Organic and Fair Trade Crop Certification Agency
  Keywords: Political Ecology, Environmental Services, Certification, Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Coffee Production, Human-Environment Interactions, ecological, economic, rural, development
  Other: Primary research: 20+ years in Oaxaca and Tlaxcala, Mexico; Fluent in Spanish
  Location: 1471 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-1316
  Fax: (859) 323-1969
  Email address: mutersba@uky.edu
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Philosophy

• Bob Sandmeyer

  
  Designation: Lecturer
  Research: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Life, Environmental Philosophy
  Courses: PHI 120 Introductory Logic; PHI 336 Environmental Ethics; PHI 361 Biology of Society; PHI 395 Independent Work
  Expertise: Ontology of life, phenomenology of living being, nature philosophy, social and political theory
  Keywords: philosophy, phenomenology, ontology, life, nature, wilderness, existentialism, continental, environmental
  Location: 1429 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-7749
  Email address: bob.sandmeyer@uky.edu
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Physics and Astronomy

• Gang Cao

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
  Courses: PHY 232: General Univ Physics; PHY 781 Indep Work in Physics; PHY 790 and 791: Research in Physics
  Expertise: Novel materials synthesis; high-field, low-temperature, high-pressure material properties; physics of transition metal oxides
  Keywords: Condensed, Matter, Physics, synthesis, material, properties transition metal, oxides
  Location: CP-377 Chemistry-Physics Building 40506-0055
  Phone: (859) 257-1997 (office); (859) 257-6876 (lab)
  Email address: gang.cao@uky.edu
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Political Science

• Ernest Yanarella

  
  Designation: Professor and Chair
  Research: Political and critical theory, nuclear deterrence and security, peace and disarmament, the politics of industrialization, labor relations and environmental concerns including acid rain and urban sustainability
  Courses: PS 442G Modern Political Theory; PS 490: Honors in Political Science; PS 795: Special Problems in Pol Sci; Directed, Masters, and PhD level research
  Expertise: critical policy studies (energy and environment, agricultural and ecological policy, national security and arms control), political theory (early, modern, and critical traditions), sustainable urban design, public ethics, and politics and literature
  Keywords: policy, energy, environment, agricultural, ecological, national security, arms control, political, ethics, politics, literature, economy, labor, sustainable
  Location: 1659 Patterson Office Tower , Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-2989
  Fax: (859) 257-7034
  Email address: ejyana@email.uky.edu
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Sociology

• Dwight Billings

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Social inequality; Appalachian and regional studies; poverty, sociological theory, and the sociology of religion; social perceptions and policies around "clean coal" technologies
  Courses: APP 200: Introduction to Appalachian Studies; APP/SOC 395 Independent Study; SOC 399 Practicum in Sociology; SOC 565 Independent Work; SOC 735: Top Seminar Soc Inequalities: Ineq Appalachia; SOC 790 Research in Rural Soc; SOC 792: Research in Soc: SOC 797: Commun Devel Praticum; Masters and PhD research
  Expertise: Historical and comparative research; sociological theory; studies of inequality;
  Keywords: coal, Appalachia, social, inequality, poverty, sociological theory, religion, mountaintop removal, mining
  Location: 1577 Patterson Office Tower , Lexington, KY 40546-0091
  Phone: (859) 257-4412
  Fax: (859) 323-0272
  Email address: billing@pop.uky.edu
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• Patrick H Mooney

  
  Designation: Professor and Chair
  Research: Rural Sociology with emphases on rural class struture, social movements, and cooperatives; social change and political economy; food security
  Courses: SOC 517 Rural Sociology; masters and PhD research as well as independent research studies; SOC 350 Community Organization
  Collaborative activities: work with Kentucky Community Farm Alliance and Prof. Keiko Tanaka (CLD) on Assessment of Food Security in Fayette County; work with Thomas Gray (USDA-Cooperative Services on cooperative restructuring); work with Prof Matteo Marini (Agricultural Economist--University of Calabria) on rural economic development in Europe.
  Current activities: Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky
  Expertise: Class analysis, frame analysis, historical analysis, agricultural cooperatives, United States, Poland
  Keywords: sustainable agriculture movement, United States, Poland, food security, rural, class structure, social, political, economy
  Location: 1559 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-4409
  Fax: (859) 323-0272
  Email address: phmooney@uky.edu
  Web site: Visit web site

Statistics

• Arne Bathke

  
  Designation: Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies; Director, Applied Statistics Laboratory
  Research: Multivariate Statistics, Nonparametric Methods, Statistical Modeling, Empirical Processes, Empirical Likelihood, Statistical Methodology for Life Sciences, Asymptotics for a Large Number of Parameters; applications to social sciences, natural sciences, agriculture, pharmacy, and medicine
  Courses: STA 605: Computational Inference
  Collaborative activities: Gluck Equine Center (Equine Microarray Data), Kentucky Injury Prevention Center, Ohio State University Wooster Campus (Plant Sciences)
  Expertise: SAS, nonparametric statistics, linear models
  Industrial contacts: Gray Construction, Lexington
  Keywords: Nonparametric, Statistics, Linear, Asymptotics, Parameters, Empirical, Multivariate Statistics, Longitudinal Data
  Location: 305C MDS, 725 Rose St
  Phone: (859) 257-3610
  Fax: (859) 323-1973
  Email address: arne@uky.edu
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• Matthew Schofield

  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: capture-recapture models; bayesian hierarchical models; modeling demographics and populations
  Courses: STA 603; STA 291; STA 605
  Expertise: Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, ecological statistics
  Keywords: capture-recapture, modeling, bayesian, computational statistics
  Location: 807 Patterson Office Tower
  Phone: (859) 257-1476
  Email address: matthew.schofield@uky.edu
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• Simon Bonner

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: statistical analysis of data from mark-recapture experiments for monitoring threatened and endangered populations, particularly fisheries management (CR models); environmental changes and their impacts on wild populations
  Courses: STA 671: Regression and Correlation
  Expertise: CR spline models, cregional climaet change effects
  Keywords: capture-release, spline models, fisheries, endangered, threatened, climate change
  Location: 803 Patterson Office Tower
  Phone: (859) 257-4950
  Email address: simon.bonner@uky.edu
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• Yanbing Zheng

  Designation: Assistant Professor
  Research: Spatial statistics, Spatial-temporal statistics, Environmental statistics, Spatial Econometrics
  Courses: STA 321: Basic Stat Theory; STA 671: Regression and Correlation; STA 672 Design and Analysis of Experiments
  Collaborative activities: Collaborating with people from Canadian Forest Service to develop spatial-temporal models for the outbreaks of mountain pine beetle in Canada.
  Expertise: Spatial-temporal statistics with application in the agricultural, biological, and environmental sciences
  Keywords: Spatial, Statistics, Temporal, Environmental, Econometrics
  Location: 873 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: (859) 257-3742
  Fax: (859) 323-1973
  Email address: yanbing.zheng@uky.edu
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Journalism

• Al Cross

  
  Designation: Assistant Professor and Director
  Research: Journalism and Communication; topics include, environment, energy, land-use planning
  Courses: JOU 497, Special Topics in Journalism
  Collaborative activities: Co-sponsored "Covering Coal and our Energy Future in Rural America" seminar with Society of Environmental Journalists, Virginia Tech and Yale Project on Climate ChangeYale Forum on Climate Change & Media, Roanoke, Oct. 2008; Supervised internship for University of Alabama master's student in community journalism, in which she wrote stories about mountaintop removal mining, June 2007 (stories were published in Appalachian coalfield newspapers) Held "Coal-Media Roundtable" for Appalachian coalfield journalists and coal-industry representatives and suppliers, with help of Appalachian News-Express and Kentucky Coal Association, Pikeville, April 2006 Held "Covering Coal" seminar for journalists with help of Marshall University, West Virginia University, Wheeling Jesuit University, Virginia Tech, U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Kentucky and West Virginia state agencies, Stagg Resource Consultants, West Virginia Coal Association, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and Appalachian Citizens Law Center, South Charleston, W.Va., Nov. 2005
  Current activities: The Rural Blog, http://irjci.blogspot.com; Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Web site, www.RuralJournalism.org
  Current funding: Faculty line and earnings on endowment funded by private donations
  Expertise: Translation of environmental issues and research into journalism to facilitate public understanding and public-policy debates. Environment is one of the four main issue areas of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, part of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications in the College of Communications and Information Studies. The Institute is not primarily a journalism craft program; it is a public-policy center for rural journalists and their communities. Because extractive industries do almost all their extracting in rural communities, their economic and environmental impacts are overwhelmingly rural. However, rural news outlets usually lack the staff, time, space and expertise to explore these impacts. That is what we help them do, through resources on our Web site, www.RuralJournalism.org; The Rural Blog, our daily digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism in rural America; holding conferences, such as the two we have done on coal in Appalachia, and co-sponsoring conferences, such as "Covering Coal and our Energy Future in Rural America" with the Society of Environmental Journalists. At that conference we also hosted a session on environmental impacts of agriculture.
  Industrial contacts: Kentucky Resources Council, Frankfort; Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, Louisville; Kentucky Coal Association, Lexington; West Virginia Coal Association, Charleston; Stagg Resource Consultants, Cross Lanes. W. Va.; Coal River Mountain Watch, Whitesville, W. Va.; Powell River Project, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.; Coal Impoundment Project, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, W. Va.; Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, Berea, Ky.; Center for Rural Strategies, Whitesburg, Ky.; Agee Films, Charlottesville, Va.
  Keywords: coal, mountaintop, mining, water, oil, gas, timber, agriculture, communications, journalism, newspapers, broadcasting, policy
  Location: 122 Grehan Journalism Building 40506-0042
  Phone: (859) 257-3744
  Fax: (859) 323-3168
  Email address: al.cross@uky.edu
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Architecture

• Richard S. Levine

  Research: Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Urban Design, Solar Architecture, Passive solar design, Green Buildings, Solar Oriented Design, Architecture, Participatory Design, Alternative Sustainable Scenario Building, Sustainability Theory, Sustainability Principles, alternative energy systems, Solar Photovoltaics. participatory processes
  Courses: Solar Architecture, Sustainable Cities
  Collaborative activities: SUCCESS project - European Commission, DG - Research project fcusing on seven Chinese villages in six different provinces in assessing and creating alternative scenarios for their sustainable futures. ca. 2m Euros ca - a multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary research project with 70 researchers from the physical sciences, the social sciences, the design professions as well as academics and local stakeholders from China and several European Countries and one researcher from the US European Commission, DG-Research, (European Union) HAMMAM project, Sustainability themed reserach in six south Mediterranean Islamic countries, ca. 2m Euro, - a multi and transdisciplinary research project with researchers from many different disciplines from each of the host countries, severla European countries and one researcher from Kentucky
  Current activities: Teaching seminar in sustainable cities and design.
  Current funding: European Commission, DG-Research, (European Union) HAMMAM project, Sustainability themed research in six south Mediterranean Islamic countries, ca. 2m Euro
  Expertise: Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Urban Design, Solar Architecture, Passive solar design, Green Buildings, Solar Oriented Design, Architecture, Participatory Design, Sustainable Alternative Scenario Building, Sustainability Theory, Sustainability Principles, Structural Systems, Reinforced Concrete Systems, Residential Design, Brownfield reclamation,
  Industrial contacts: Many contacts in China, the Middle East (particularly in Morocco, Iran, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Gaza, Israel), India, UAE, many European contacts (particularly Austria, Germany, France, the other UK, Italy,) and a few contacts in the US
  Keywords: Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Urban Design, Solar Architecture, Passive solar design, Green Buildings, Solar Oriented Design, Architecture, Participatory Design, Sustainable Alternative Scenario Building, Sustainability Theory, Sustainability Principles, Structural Systems, Reinforced Concrete Systems, Residential Design,
  Location: Main Office: 117 Pence Hall 40506-0041
  Phone: (859) 257-7617; CSC (859) 272-6444
  Email address: rlevine@uky.edu
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School of Architecture

• David Biagi

  Designation: Director
  Research: Sustainable architecture and design
  Expertise: High-quality design projects that use innovative strategies for affordability, accessibility, and sustainability.
  Keywords: Housing, religious, sustainable, memorials, universal design, office, technology
  Other: 40 under 40, Jury at Copper Hewitt National Design Museum, NY, NY.; ACSA Collaborative Practice Award; NCARB
  Location: 117 Pence Hall, Lexington KY 40504-0041
  Phone: (859) 257-7617
  Email address: dbiagi@uky.edu
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• Greg Luhan

  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Digital visualization leading to digital manufacturing with applications to design-build projects, full-scale assembly, and including ecological design features.
  Expertise: Digital fabrication
  Keywords: Digital Fabrication; Design Pedagogy; Architecture; Virtual Environments; Flexible Systems Design; Sustainability; Green Building
  Location: 314 Pence Hall, Lexington KY 40504-0041
  Phone: (859) 257-6568
  Email address: gregory.luhan@uky.edu
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• Michael Speaks

  Designation: Professor and Dean
  Location: 117 Pence Hall, Lexington KY 40504-0041
  Phone: (859) 257-7619
  Email address: michael.speaks@uky.edu
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Chemicals and Material Engineering

• Eric A. Grulke

  Designation: Professor
  Research: Advanced Carbon Materials and Nanotechnology, Diffusion in Polymers, and Polymerization
  Current activities: Associate Dean, Director Electron Microscopy Center
  Current funding: DOE EPSCoR, PRISM, SBIR, State DOE EPSCoR
  Expertise: applications of nanoparticles in fluids and polymers, nanoparticle toxicity, safety and toxicity assessments
  Industrial contacts: * Senior U.S. editor, Polymer Handbook, John Wiley. * ABET evaluator, 2000- 2009, Chemical Engineering * Member, ISO/TC229, ANSI-accredited U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO/TC229, developing ISO standards for the emerging nanotechnology industry, 2010
  Keywords: nanoscale materials, energy, nanotechnology, polymers, polymerization
  Location: 359 Ralph G. Anderson Building Lexington, KY 40506-0108
  Phone: (859) 257-6097
  Fax: (859) 323-4922
  Email address: eric.grulke@uky.edu
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Civil Engineering

• Gail Brion

  
  Designation: Associate Professor and Director of ERTL
  Research: Water Treatment, Water Reuse, Fate of Pathogens in Water Environments, Control of Waterbourne Disease, Disinfection, Public Health, Environmental Virology
  Expertise: water treatment, controlling waterbourne diseases and public health
  Keywords: Water, Treatment, Reuse, Pathogens, Disease, Disinfection, Public Health, Environmental, Virology
  Location: 367 Raymond Building Lexington, KY 40506-0281
  Phone: (859) 257-4467
  Fax: (859) 257-4404
  Email address: gbrion@engr.uky.edu
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• Kamyar C. Mahboub

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Materials Engineering; Pavement Design, Construction Management; Transportation Engineering.
  Courses: CE 581 CE 534
  Expertise: Pavement design and construction
  Keywords: Materials, Engineering, Pavement, Construction, Management, Transportation, Design
  Location: 263 Raymond Building Lexington, KY 40506-0281
  Phone: (859) 257-4279
  Email address: KMAHBOUB@ENGR.UKY.EDU
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Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science/Chemical and Mechanical Engineering

• Frank E. Huggins

  Designation: Research Faculty (retired)
  Research: Environmental issues from coal and other fossil fuel utilization, element speciation analysis of environmental and geochemical materials, hazardous air pollutants (arsenic, chromium, mercury, nickel, selenium, sulfur, etc.) from coal combustion, capture of mercury from combustion flue-gases by sorbents, Hg/Se interactions in mammalian organs, atmospheric particulate matter, ambient air quality, element mobility and leaching of metals from coal wastes and byproducts (ash). Recycling of materials. Sustainable energy development, biofuels. Catalysis for more efficient energy use.
  Courses: None
  Collaborative activities: E. Olson, University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center (UNDEERC), capture of Hg from low-temperature flue-gases by sorbents.; N. Ralston, UNDEERC, Hg Se interactions in organs in sea mammal (whales).; W. Linak et al, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US EPA, element speciation in ultrafine particulate matter from fossil fuel combustion.; Y. Ohtsuka, Tohoku University, Japan, Speciation of elements in PetCoke ash; C. Senior, Reaction Engineering International, Occurrence and speciation of As and Se in coal fly-ash
  Current activities: None
  Expertise: X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy, Mossbauer spectroscopy, electron microscopy, synchrotron methods
  Industrial contacts: Mark Stauffer, (Speciation analysis) Elemental Analysis, Inc., Lexington, KY. ; Dave Smith, (Hg capture from flue gases) SASKPower, SK, Canada.; Stan Shewchuk, (Hg capture from flue gases) Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.; Constance Senior, (Occurrence and speciation of As and Se in coal fly-ash) Reaction Engineering International, SLC, UT.
  Keywords: Coal, ash, arsenic, mercury, selenium, sulfur, nickel, chromium, vanadium, PM, PM2.5, air particulates, XAFS spectroscopy, speciation, leaching, heavy metals, sorbents, fossil fuels, biofuels, catalysis
  Other: CFFS = the Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science is a Research Center within the U.K. Chemical Engineering Department.
  Location: 103 S J (Sam) Whalen Building 40506-0043
  Phone: (859) 257-4027
  Fax: (859) 257-7215
  Email address: frank.huggins@uky.edu

• Gerald Huffman

  
  Designation: Research Faculty (retired)
  Research: Liquefaction of waste materials, Coliquefaction of waste materials with coal
  Expertise: Liquefaction
  Keywords: Liquefaction, Waste, plastics, tires, Coliquefaction, Coal
  Location: 106 Sam J Whalen Building 40506
  Phone: (859) 257-4027
  Fax: (859) 257-7215
  Email address: gphuffman@uky.edu
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• Naresh Shah

  Designation: Research Professor
  Research: Fuels and energy production from sustainable and conventional resources; characterization of nano-sized supported binary catalysts; alternate transportation fuels; airborne particulate matter
  Expertise: High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM); X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy
  Keywords: PM2.5, coal, ash, HRTEM, XAFS,Mossbauer
  Location: (Sam) Whalen Building 40506-0043
  Phone: 859 257-5119
  Fax: (859) 323-7215
  Email address: naresh@uky.edu
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Bruce Walcott

  
  Designation: Associate Dean for New Economy Initiatives and Innovations Management,Engineering Alumni Association Professor
  Research: all-digital control design, deterministic estimation and control of uncertain systems, modeling flexible systems, output feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems, symbolic control
  Expertise: control systems
  Keywords: nonlinear, feedback, stabilization, systems, deterministic, modeling, control, all-digital
  Location: 289 Ralph Anderson Bldg 40506-0503
  Phone: (859) 257-1182
  Fax: (859) 257-4922
  Email address: walcott@uky.edu
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• Charles E. May

  Designation: Director of Operations CeNSE
  Research: Semiconductor Process Technology, Isolation and Lithographic Techniques, Carbon Nanotube characterization
  Collaborative activities: NSF Proposal with M. Pinar Menguc for a Nanoscience Institute; DOE Proposal with Vijay Singh for Nanostructured Solar Cells; SIBR for Neutron Detection development
  Current activities: Training for CeNSE
  Expertise: Process and Product Integration; Industrial Research and Development; Gate Insulator Development for CMOS Devices; Project Management
  Industrial contacts: Semiconductor On Semi, LSI Logic, AMD, General Electric Appliance, Lexmark
  Keywords: Semiconductor; Insulators; Nanostructured; Solar Cell
  Location: 453 F Paul Anderson Tower 40506-0046
  Phone: (859) 257-8042
  Fax: 859-257-3092
  Email address: charles.maye2@uky.edu
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• Janet K. Lumpp

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Materials, lasers and microelectronics
  Courses: EE/MSE 569 Electronic Packaging Systems and Manufacturing Processes
  Expertise: carbon nanotubes, conductive adhesives, electronic packaging, excimer laser micromachining system
  Keywords: Materials, lasers, microelectronicsm, carbon nanotubes
  Location: 697 F. Paul Anderson Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0108
  Phone: (859) 257 - 4985
  Fax: (859) 257 - 3092
  Email address: jklumpp@uky.edu
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• Zhi David Chen

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Microelectronic Fabrication, Novel Semiconductor Devices and Materials, CMOS Transistor Reliability, and Microsensors
  Courses: EE461G Introduction to Electronics; EE462G Electronic Circuits Laboratory
  Expertise: nanoscale devices and materials in development of future electron devices for VLSI applications
  Industrial contacts: Investigated the interface trap generation in CMOS devices using charge-pumping test and hot carrier aging as member of technical stuff of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Orlando, Florida (1998).
  Keywords: nanoscale, Microelectronic, Fabrication, Semiconductor, CMOS, Transistor, Microsensors, VLSI, gate insulators
  Location: 453 Anderson Hall 40506-0046 Lexington, KY 40506-0046
  Phone: (859) 218-6550
  Fax: (859) - 257 - 3092
  Email address: zhi.chen@uky.edu
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Institute of Research for Technology Development

• Bob Gregory

  Designation: Information Specialist
  Research: Organizational Culture
  Courses: Have taught Writing About Science & Writing for Engineers when a faculty member in English departments, in a former life
  Collaborative activities: helping faculty from Gatton School and the College of Engineering on a sustainable supply chain project for the Air Force
  Expertise: Technical Writing/Editing/Proposals
  Location: 211 Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems 40506-0108
  Phone: (859) 257-6262 x215
  Fax: (859) 257-2721
  Email address: robert.gregory@uky.edu
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Mechanical Engineering

• Dusan P. Sekulic

  Designation: Professor
  Research: Thermodynamics, Heat Exchanger Theory & Design, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena for materials processing, Energy resources utilization, Sustainable Manufacturing
  Courses: ME 699 Modeling of Resources Utilization for Sustainable Engineering
  Collaborative activities: MIT (Prof. T. Gutowski) - Thermodynamics and Destruction of Resources, The Cambridge University Press, 2009; Ohio State University (Prof. B. Bakshi) - Thermodynamics and Destruction of resources, The Cambridge University Press, 2009; Pen State (F.S. Cannon) Collaborative Energy Efficiency and Carbon Footprint Research, DOE; Uni Minn (F. Kulacki) Boyant and mixed convective flows in metal foams.
  Current activities: Director of Graduate Studies, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, UK Center for Manufacturing, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ME Department, Short Courses on Brazing and Heat Exchanger Design
  Expertise: Thermodynamics analysis of resources utilization, Design for manufacturing of heat transfer devices, modeling transport phenomena involving materials processing for manufacturing, environmentaly friendly metal bonding (soldering and brazing). Directs two laboratories: (1) Brazing and soldering laboratory (lead-free solders wetting: hot stage microscopy equipment (up to 570 K and up to 1700K; contact angle kinetics equipment - up to 1700 K; transparent hot zone & controlled atmosphere equipment up to 1500 K, ultra high purity Argon, ultra high purity nitrogen, high vacuum, (2) Experimental rig for liquid/liquid heat transfer and hydraulic testing of compact heat exchangers.
  Industrial contacts: Caterpillar, Delphi, KB Alloys, Honeywell, Comonwealth Aluminum, Pechiney Rolled Products
  Keywords: manufacturing, thermodynamics, resources, materials processing, sustainability, energy
  Other: Member of the editorial board of a Int. J. of Sustainable Manufacturing
  Location: 414F Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems 40506-0108
  Phone: (859) 257-2972
  Fax: (859) 257-1035
  Email address: dpseku0@uky.edu
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• Fazleena Badurdeen

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Mass Customization, Manufacturing Systems, Optimization, Application of Metaheuristics
  Collaborative activities: Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE); Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME); Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
  Current activities: (1) Collaborators and Co-editors: J. P. Liyanage, and R.M.C. Ratnayake, University of Stavanger, Norway; D.T. Masel and G.A. Suer, Ohio University, OH; T.J. Goldsby, I.S. Jawahir, D. Iyengar, P. Marksberry, B. Gregory, J. Seay, H.; Metta and S. Gupta, K. Wijekoon, M. Shuaib, University of Kentucky, KY; S. Thuramalla, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Security, CO; K. Bedida, Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, IN; N. Dissanayake, Atos Origin, Cincinnati, OH; (2) Graduate and Postdoctoral advisors: Ph.D. and MS Advisor
  Expertise: Total life-cycle and sustainable supply chain design; mass customization strategies
  Keywords: Sustainable Design, Customization, Manufacturing, Optimization, Metaheuristics
  Location: 414L CRMS Building Lexington, KY 40506-0108 Lexington, KY 40506-0108
  Phone: (859) 257-3252
  Fax: (859)-323-1035
  Email address: badurdeen@engr.uky.edu
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• I.S. Jawahir

  
  Designation: James F. Hardymon Chair in Manufacturing Systems, Professor
  Research: Sustainable Products and Processes, Sustainable Manufacturing, Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Processes
  Courses: ME/MFS 699 Sustainable Products, Processes and Systems; ME/MFS 507 Design for Manufacturing (includes few modules on sustainability theory and applications for product design for sustainability)
  Collaborative activities: Collaborating with several national and international groups including the following: 1. ENSAM, Cluny, France (Professor G. Poulachon) 2. Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal (Professor J.C. Outeiro) 3. University of Naples, Naples, Italy (Professor R. Teti) 4. Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy (Professor A. Apicella) 5. Seco Tools R & D Unit , Seco Tools AB, Fagersta, Sweden (Dr. R. M'Saoubi) 6. University of Lubljana, Lubljana, Slovenia (Professor J. Kopac) 7. Mondragon University, Mondragon, Spain (Professor P. Arrazola) 8. University of NSW, Sydney, Australia (Dr. J.A. Arsecularatne) 9. General Motors Research Labs, Warren, MI, USA (Dr. R. Stevenson) 10. Air Products, Inc., Allentown, PA (Dr. R. Ghosh)
  Current activities: Teaching courses at UK at undergraduate and graduate levels in manufacturing processes, design for manufacturing, sustainable products, processes and systems; Conducting short courses and continuing educational programs on sustainable product design and manufacturing (nationally and internationally)
  Current funding: 1. ATI/DoD, $375,000, Next Generation Supply Chain Modeling, PI; 2. ATI/DoD, $178,000, Next Generation Supply Chain Modeling (Supplement), PI; 3. IMTI/ATI/DoD, $450,000, Next Generation Manufacturing Technology Initiative (NGMTI): SIP Support and Predictive Models and Optimization Techniques for Manufacturing Processes, PI; 4. Semicon Associates, $125,000, Cryogenic Machining: Modeling and Optimization for Sustainable Machining, PI; 5. National Science Foundation (NSF), $200,000, Topology-based Hybrid Predictive Modeling of Cyclic Chip Formation in Machining, PI; 6. Kentucky Science and Education Foundation (KSEF), $60,000, Seeding Funding: Establishing the Influence of Drill Materials, Drill geometry and Coatings on Drill-wear and Drill Performance for Sustainable Dry Drilling on Mars, PI.; 7. Kentucky Science and Education Foundation (KSEF), $99,654, Improved Machining of Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants, Co-PI (PI: D. Puleo).
  Expertise: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Product Design for Sustainability, Manufacturing Processes
  Industrial contacts: Worked with a large number of indistry groups such as General Motors, Ford, Toyota, General Electric, IBM, Lexmark, Semicon, Kennametal, Air Products, Haas Automation, UNIST, Inc., and have received significant research funding from these companies during the last 18 years at UK.
  Keywords: Sustainable Product Design, Sustainable Manufacturing, Manufacturing Processes, Product and Process Optimization
  Location: 414C Center for Manufacturing 40506-0108
  Phone: (859) 257-3239
  Fax: (859) 257-1071
  Email address: is.jawahir@uky.edu
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• Keith Rouch

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Finite Element Modeling in Design, Sustainable Manufacturing, Rotating Machinery Dynamics, Vibrations
  Collaborative activities: Sustainable Manufacturing group in Center for Manufacturing
  Current activities: Capstone Design, including sustainability projects; Finite Element Methods in Mechanical design
  Expertise: Finite Elements, Dynamics, Vibrations
  Keywords: Finite Element, Dynamics, Bearings, Rotating Machinery
  Location: 163 Ralph G Anderson Building 40506-0503
  Phone: (859) 257-6336 x80637
  Fax: (859) 257-3304
  Email address: keith.rouch@uky.edu
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• Thomas Lester

  
  Designation: Dean and Professor
  Research: Combustion, Waste Incineration
  Expertise: Combustion, Waste Incineration
  Keywords: Combustion, Waste, Incineration
  Location: 353 Ralph G. Anderson Building Lexington, KY 40506-0503
  Phone: (859) 257-1687
  Fax: (859)-257-4922
  Email address: thomas.lester2@uky.edu
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Mechanical Engineering and Center for Manufacturing

• Oscar Dillon

  Designation: Professor Emeritus
  Research: Continuum Mechanics, Coupled Thermoelacticity, Materials Science, Sustainable Manufacturing
  Courses: Sustainability (with I.S. Jawahir); Special Projects (with I.S. Jawahir)
  Current activities: Post Retirement Appointment
  Current funding: See I.S. Jawahir (I am a Co -PI on several presently funded projects)
  Expertise: Finite Elements, Machining, Materials, Fatigue,Thermal Stresses
  Industrial contacts: Former NSF Division Director; Working with GE, ATI, others in Sustainable Manufactuuring
  Keywords: Thermal Stresses, Machining, Fatigue
  Other: With Jawahir, I started Sustainable manufacuring at UK about 5 years ago.
  Location: 220 Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems 40506-0108
  Phone: (859) 257-6262
  Fax: (859)-257-3304
  Email address: odillon@engr.uky.edu
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Mining Engineering

• Daniel Tao

  
  Designation: Professor and Associate Dean Commonwealth and International Programs
  Research: Acid Mine Drainage Control, Coal Preparation, Solid Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Waste Utilization, Wastewaster Treatment
  Expertise: Coal preparation, fine particle separation, metal surface treatment; acid mine drainage control; wastewater treatment
  Keywords: colloid, chemistry, coal, preparation, triboelectrostatic, beneficiation, metal, treatment, separation, dewatering, filtration, column flotation, mineral, mine, waste
  Location: 234E Mining and Mineral Resources 40506-0107
  Phone: (859) 257-2953
  Fax: (859) 323-1962
  Email address: daniel.tao@uky.edu
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• G.T. Lineberry

  
  Designation: Professor and Associate Dean Commonwealth and International Programs
  Research: Mine Plant Engineering, Underground Mining Operations
  Expertise: mining methods, mechanism analysis
  Keywords: Mine, Plant, Underground, deep mining
  Location: 234F Mining and Mineral Resources 40506-0107
  Phone: (859) 257-2833
  Fax: (859) 323-1962
  Email address: gt.lineberry@uky.edu
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• Rick Honaker

  
  Designation: Professor and Chair
  Research: Coal Preparation, Mineral Processing, Applied Surface Chmistry, Advanced Physical Processing, Fine Particle Processing, Automation and Control, Applied Surface Chemistry, General Mining Engineering
  Current activities: Involved in several educational activities as a result of holding the position of Department Chair
  Current funding: Honaker, R. Q. (PI), "Development and Testing of Dry Separation Technologies," U.S. Department of State, $100,000.; Honaker, R. Q. (PI) and Tao, D. (co-PI), Enhanced Flotation Performance through Column Froth Enrichment; Center for Advanced Separation Technologies/U. S. Department of Energies, 2 year project, sponsor funding = $145,502. Tao, D. (PI) and Honaker, R. Q. (Co-PI), Proof-of-Concept Testing of the Piccobubble Phosphate Flotation, Florida Institute of Phosphate Research, $460,000. ; Honaker, R. Q. (PI), Demonstration Of A Novel Dry Coarse Coal Process For Improved Mining Economics, Kentucky Office of Energy Policy, agency funding: $115,867, total funding: $198,867.; Groppo, J. (PI) and Honaker, R. Q. (co-PI), Economical Recovery of Fly Ash- Derived Magnetics and Evaluation for Coal Cleaning, Kentucky Office of Energy Policy, agency funding: $77,241.; Honaker, R. Q Improved Energy Efficiency and Economic Recovery of Eastern Kentucky Coal Using a Novel Dry Clean Coal Technology.; Kentucky Office of Energy Policy, agency funding: $99,548.
  Expertise: Process Engineering
  Industrial contacts: Extensive.
  Keywords: Coal Preparation, Minerals Processing, Environmental Controls, remediation, recycling, process engineering, slurry impoundments
  Location: 230 Mining and Mineral Resources 40506-0107
  Phone: (859) 257-1108
  Fax: (859) 323-1962
  Email address: rick.honaker@uky.edu
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Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences

• Howard Glauert

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Mechanisms by which environmental chemicals induce liver cancer and the effect of nutrition, especially dietary antioxidants.
  Courses: Course coordinator for NS 601 (Integrated Nutritional Sciences I); Instructor, NS 704, Current Topics in Nutrition; Lecturer in TOX 680, Advanced Toxicology
  Collaborative activities: I have had research collaborations with Gary Gairola, Brett Spear, Eun Lee, and Cidambi Srinivasan (University of Kentucky); Larry Robertson, Gabriele Ludewig, and Hans Lehmler (University of Iowa); and Michael Schwarz (University of Tuebingen)
  Expertise: Analysis of preneoplastic lesions in the liver; Analysis of cell proliferation and apoptosis in vivo; Electrophoretic mobility shift assays; Dietary studies (experimental diet mixing equipment, diet feeding equipment)
  Keywords: Environmental carcinogenesis, PCBs, peroxisome proliferators, cigarette smoke, selenium, vitamin E, antioxidants, nutrition and cancer
  Location: 222 Funkhouser Building 40506-0054
  Phone: (859) 257-7789
  Fax: (859) 323-0061
  Email address: hglauert@uky.edu
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Graduate Center for Toxicology

• Mary Vore

  
  Designation: Professor and Director
  Research: Transport of organic anions (bile salts and the glucuronide and glutathione conjugates of xenobiotics) across the hepatocyte; mechanisms by which estradoil-17-glucuronide inhibits bile flow
  Expertise: toxicology
  Keywords: organic, anions, bile, glucuronide, glutathione, xenobiotics, hepatocyte, prolactin, cholestasis
  Location: 1095 V.A. Drive 306 Health Sciences Research Building 40536-0305
  Phone: (859) 257-3760
  Fax: (859) 323-1059
  Email address: maryv@uky.edu
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Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

• Martha Peterson

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: Gene expression regulation, developmentally regulated RNA processing, repression of AFP expression
  Expertise: genetics
  Keywords: gene, expression, transcription, RNA, splicing, cleavage-polyadenylation, transportstability, protein, post-transcriptional, regulate, spatial, polymerase
  Location: 107 Combs Cancer Building 40536-0096
  Phone: (859) 257-5478
  Fax: (859) 257-4879
  Email address: mlpete01@uky.edu
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Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology

• Hollie Swanson

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: AHR signaling pathway and relation to environmental contaminant exposure and chronic human disease states such as cancer; interactions between AHR and other signaling pathways
  Expertise: nuclear receptors and drug metabolism
  Keywords: laboratory, aryl hydrocarbon, receptor, cell, fate, contaminants, dioxin, tumor, cytochrome, genes, keratinocytes, regulators, senescence, AHR, apoptosis
  Location: MN 322, Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, KY 40546-0298
  Phone: (859) 323-1463
  Fax: (859) 323-1981
  Email address: hswan@email.uky.edu
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Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Robert Lodder

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: analytical spectroscopy and pharmaceutical research
  Expertise: Dr. Lodder is a first-prize winner in the 1990 international IBM Supercomputing Competition, as well as a winner of a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper Award, a Buchi NIR Award, the Tomas Hirschfeld Award in Near-IR Spectroscopy (PittCon), a Research and Development 100 Award, and the Orville N. Green Service Award (SETICon).
  Keywords: analytical chemistry, pharmaceuticals, spectrometry, IR, NIR
  Location: 123 ASTeCC Building University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506
  Phone: (859) 257-9232
  Fax: (859) 257-2489
  Email address: lodder@uky.edu
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Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Robert A. Yokel

  
  Designation: Professor
  Research: neurotoxicology, toxicokinetics, toxicology of nanoscale materials, neurotoxic metals, chelation
  Collaborative activities: develop a medical device to remove aluminum from medical solutions ; safety/toxicity assessment of nanoscale materials, using ceria as a model material
  Current activities: selected topics in pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum nervous system pharmacology; neurotoxicology overview and metals in toxicology graduate curriculum
  Current funding: NICHD, NIH, A device containing immobilized chelator to remove aluminum from TPN solutions 1R41HD055009, R. Yokel, P.I. Award made to ALKYMOS, Inc.; Kentucky Phase I Matching Fund award KSTC-184-512-08-041, R. Yokel, P.I. Award made to ALKYMOS, Inc.; Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation, ICC Concept Pool Funding Agreement #147-406-99, Award made to ALKYMOS, Inc.; United States Environmental Protection Agency, STAR Grant RD-833772, "Safety/toxicity assessment of ceria (a model engineered NP) to the brain", 2/1/08-2/29/12, $1,457,076 (direct), $2,000,000 (total).
  Expertise: intact rodent pharmacokinetics, atomic absorption spectroscopy, blood-brain barrier assessment, intellectual property development
  Industrial contacts: President of small start-up company: ALKYMOS, Inc.
  Keywords: aluminum, ceria, engineered nanoscale materials, chelators, neurotoxins
  Location: 511c College of Pharmacy Building 40536-0082
  Phone: (859) 257-4855
  Fax: (859) 323-6886
  Email address: ryokel@email.uky.edu
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Prevent Medicine and Environmental Health

• Larry Figgs

  
  Designation: Associate Professor
  Research: Environmental epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, exposure assessment, toxic environmental exposure, environmental/occupational disease epidemiology
  Courses: CPH601 Environmental and Occupational Health
  Collaborative activities: Regional CLOUT: A collaborative of five Kentucky county health departments in central Kentucky; National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD.
  Current funding: Grant title: Kentucky Regional Lead Screening Consortium: A Multi-county Approach to Blood-Lead Poisoning Risk Reduction in Kentucky Pediatric Medicaid Population. Role: Principal Investigator/ Project Manager (2) Grant title: Regional CLOUT: Consortium for Leadership, Outreach, and Training.
  Expertise: epidmiology, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), plasma resonance spectroscopy, environmental exposure assessment
  Keywords: epidemiology, cancer, exposure assessment, pesticides, herbicides, lead, occupational disease, ethics
  Location: 215B College of Public Health Building 40536-0003
  Phone: (859) 218-2231
  Fax: (859)-257-9862
  Email address: lffigg2@uky.edu
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• Robert McKnight

  
  Designation: Professor and Chair
  Research: Occupational injuries and illness among farmers, farm workers, and farm families. Occupational poisonings, injury prevention, and health care access among migrant farm workers.
  Courses: CPH 610 Injury Epidemiology and Control; CPH 728 Health and Agricultural Populations
  Expertise: health and safety, occupational injuries of farmers
  Keywords: Occupational, injuries, illness, farmers, workers, farm, families, poisonings, prevention, health care, Injury Epidemiology
  Location: 111 Washington Avenue, Lexington, KY 40536-0003
  Phone: (859) 323-6836
  Email address: rmcknig@email.uky.edu
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Economics

• Glenn Blomquist

  
  Designation: Pollard Endowed Professor
  Research: Health Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Public Economics and Public Policy, Urban and Regional Economics
  Courses: ECO 724 Seminar in Environmental Economics PA 727/ ECO 721 Environmental Economics, Regulation, and Policy; ECO 654/PA680 Benefit Cost Analysis;
  Current activities: Direct dissertations in environmental economics in the Department of Economics; teaching
  Expertise: Environmental policy and traffic safety regulation, human safety, valuation of urban and environmental amenities, benefit cost analysis and publice policy
  Keywords: environmental and resource economics, environmental policy, valuation
  Other: Association of Environmental and Resource Economics - member and served on various committees
  Location: 335Q Gatton College of Bus and Econ 40506
  Phone: (859) 257-3924
  Fax: (859) 323-1920
  Email address: gcblom@uky.edu
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• Kenneth Troske

  Designation: Sturgill Endowed Professor and Director, Center for Business and Economic Research
  Research: Applied Micro-economics, program evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, labor economics, technology
  Courses: ECO 477: Labor Economics; ECO 732
  Current funding: Spencer Foundation $170,000, Kentucky Community and Technical College System $80,000, Friedman Foundation $17,000, KentuckianaWorks $55,000, Sloan Foundation $160,000
  Expertise: technology adaptation, labor force, impact of welfare programs on labor market, workforce diversity and productivity, sex discrimination
  Industrial contacts: Kentucky Association of Manufacturers, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
  Keywords: labor force, welfare, discrimination, wages, technology
  Location: 335BA Gatton College of Bus and Econ 40506
  Phone: (859) 257-1282
  Fax: (859) 257-7671
  Email address: ktroske@uky.edu
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School of Management

• Bradford Jordan

  Designation: Richard W and Janis H Furst Endowed Chair in Finance
  Research: Corporate Finance, Asset Valuation, Fixed Income Securities and Derivative Assests; Recent research in procing of US Treasury obligations, the effect of taxes on security values, pricing of IPOs
  Expertise: valuation of fixed income securities and derivative assets
  Keywords: income, securities, derivatives, finance, security values
  Location: 4253 Gatton College of Business and Economics Lexington, KY 40506-0034
  Phone: (859) 257-4887
  Fax: (859) 257-9688
  Email address: bjordan@uky.edu
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• Ram Pakath

  Designation: Professor
  Research: Adaptive systems; data mining; system-user interface designs; information representation and delivery
  Courses: DIS 300: Analyzing Business Operations; Quantitative Analysis in Operations Management
  Expertise: management information systems
  Keywords: adaptive, data, mining, interface, design
  Location: 425F Gatton College of Business and Economics 40506
  Phone: (859) 257-4319
  Fax: (859) 257-8031
  Email address: ram.pakath@uky.edu
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Energy and Minerals Section

• James A. Drahovzal

  
  Designation: Retired Head
  Research: carbon dioxide sequestration; Oil and gas exploration; coal and minerals
  Courses: Neotectonics
  Collaborative activities: Rough Creek Graben Consortium Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium SECARB Illinois Basin Consortium
  Current activities: On several MS and PhD committees in the DEES
  Expertise: Regional geology; Seismic interpretation; Petroleum geology; Subsurface geology; carbon dioxide sequestration; extensional rift basins
  Industrial contacts: Peabody E-On ConocoPhillips I-CON Numerous small and independent oil and gas companies
  Keywords: Rift basin, reflection seismic data, oil and gas, carbon sequestration (storage), carbon capture and storage, Proterozoic, Paleozoic
  Location: 344 Mining and Mineral Resources Building 40506-0107
  Phone: (859) 433-8680
  Fax: (859) 257-1147
  Email address: drahovzal@uky.edu
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Geospatial Analysis Section

• Dan Carey

  
  Designation: Hydrologist
  Research: GIS, Internet map and GIS data services, geology and land-use planning , hydrology
  Courses: ES 610 NRC 555
  Current activities: Maps-to-Teachers
  Expertise: GIS, Geology, Hydrology. Water resources development, GIS Education
  Keywords: GIS, Environment, Geology, Hydrology, Water and Sewer Infrastructure, Education
  Location: 314 Mining and Mineral Resources 40506-0107
  Phone: (859) 323-0529
  Fax: (859) 257-1147
  Email address: carey@uky.edu
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• David Wildasin

  Designation: Endowed Professor of Public Finance, Professor of Economics
  Research: His current research focuses on state corporation income taxation, fiscal policy, integration of labor and capital markets, and intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing and transition countries. Environmental research publications include: 1. Taxation, Migration, and Pollution, with A. Sandmo, International Tax and Public Finance (1998) 2. Disaster Policies: Some Implications for Public Finance in the U.S. Federation, Public Finance Review. (2008) 3. Disaster Policy in the US Federation: Intergovernmental Incentives and Institutional Reform, National Tax Association, Proceedings of the 99th Annual Conference (2007). 4. Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking, with H. Ogawa, American Economic Review. (forthcoming) Work in progress:Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Relief, and Policy Coordination in a Federation. Current research interests: Policy adaptation to climate change, intergovernmental policy coordination (within and among countries). Environmental spillover effects. Effects of disasters on government finances and policies. Disaster relief financing and moral hazard.
  Courses: PA 750: Introduction to Economics for Public Policy
  Expertise: Economic policy analysis.
  Keywords: economics, urban, regional, international, corporation, taxation, fiscal, policy, labor, capital, intergovernmental, Policy adaptation, climate change, Environmental spillover, Effects of disasters, Disaster relief,floods
  Location: 401 Patterson Office Tower 40506-0027
  Phone: 859 257-2456
  Fax: (859) 323-1937
  Email address: david.wildasin@uky.edu
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Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute

• Stephanie Jenkins

  Designation: Program Director
  Research: Implementation, design, and planning for educational programs; research coordination
  Expertise: Coordinates educational and research initiatives; marketing and planning
  Keywords: water resources, education outreach, SBRP, research translation
  Location: 233 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg. University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0107
  Phone: (859) 257-4974
  Fax: (859) 323-1049
  Email address: swjenk2@uky.edu
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