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FEWSTERN Committees

The FEWSTERN Program is administered by the UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA). Dr. Frank Löffler serves as Principal Investigator (PI) and directs FEWSTERN. Dr. Joe (Joe) Zhuang is the Program Manager and Co-PI. Dr. Gary Sayler is the Science Coordinator and Co-PI. Dr. Virginia Dale is a Co-PI and serves as liaison for engaging the National Laboratory Complex in FEWSTERN activities. Dr. Bill Brown (Co-PI) will chair the UT Steering Committee, and he and Dr. Sayler will advise Drs. Löffler and Zhuang on meeting program goals and objectives. Members of the FEWSTERN Steering Committee, JRCEEC (Joint Research Center for Ecological and Environmental Change), Advisory Team, and the Research Coordination Advisory Board are listed below.

Steering Committee

  • Julie Carrier, Professor and Head, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Virginia Dale, Scientist and Corporate Fellow, Center for Bioenergy Sustainability, Environmental Sciences Division, Climate Change Science Institute, Urban Dynamics Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
  • Jennifer DeBruyn, Associate Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Burton English, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Shawn Hawkins, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Terry Hazen, UT/ORNL Governor's Chair Professor, Knoxville and Oak Ridge, TN USA
  • Mingzhou Jin, Professor and Associate Department Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering; and Director, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, UT, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Keith Kline, Staff Scientist, Multi-Scale Energy-Environmental Systems Program, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN USA
  • Brian Leib, Associate Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Mark Radosevich, Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA; Co-Director of China-US Joint Research Center for Soil Productivity and Environmental Conservation (SPEC)
  • Timothy Rials, Professor, Associate Dean and Director of the Tennessee Center for Renewable Carbon, Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Sean Schaeffer, Assistant Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA; Assistant Director of the SPEC Center
  • Charles Sims, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, UT, Knoxville, TN USA
  • John Wilkerson, Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Sciences, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA

JRCEEC Advisory Team

  • Gary Sayler (Chair), Professor Emeritus and Lead, Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change (JRCEEC), Knoxville, TN USA
  • Jon Harbor, Professor, Director of Digital Education, and Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA
  • Terry Hazen, UT/ORNL Governor's Chair Professor, Knoxville and Oak Ridge, TN USA
  • Gui-Bin Jiang, Distinguished Professor, Academician, and Director of Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Mingzhou Jin, Professor and Associate Department Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering; and Director, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, UT, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Hong-Qiang Ren, Distinguished Professor and Dean, School of Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  • Timothy Rials, Professor, Associate Dean and Director of the Tennessee Center for Renewable Carbon, Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Gui-Rui Yu, Distinguished Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director of Chinese Ecosystem Research (CERN); Director of China Flux Network, Beijing, China
  • Han-Qing Yu, Distinguished Professor and Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences' Key Laboratory of Urban Wastes Treatment and Utilization, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
  • Jie (Joe) Zhuang, Professor, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA; Joint Faculty, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Research Coordination Advisory Board

  • David White (Chair), Associate Dean and Associate Director, UTIA, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Charles Sims (Co-Chair), Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, UT, Knoxville, TN USA
  • Nada Assaf-Anid, Dean, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY USA
  • Jie Bao, Professor and Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering; Director, Center for Biomass Energy Research, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
  • Bruno Basso, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA
  • Jun Bi, Professor and Director, State Key Laboratory of Waste Treatment and Resources Recycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  • Ren-Jie Dong, Professor and Associate Director, Ministry of Agriculture's Key Laboratory of Renewable and Clean Energy Research, Research Center for Biomass Energy, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
  • Nan-Qi Ren, Professor and Vice President, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Harbin, China
  • K. C. Ting, Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL USA
  • Jing-Kuan Wang, Professor and Dean, College of Land and Environment, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
  • Sherry Wang, Environmental Fellow (Clean Water), Water Program, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Nashville, TN USA
  • Zhong-Liang Wang, Professor and Dean, School of Resources and Environment, Tianjing Normal University, Tianjing, China
  • Ming Xu, Assistant Professor, Center for Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
  • Bing Xue, Associate Professor and Director, Laboratory of Environmental Computation and Simulation, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
  • Jinhua Zhao, Professor and Director, Environmental Science & Policy Program, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA
  • Yan Zhu, Professor and Dean, College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China