ISSE Publications
- ISSE 2009 Annual Report
- ISSE 2008 Annual Report
- ISSE Newsletters
- ISSE Research Reports and Other Publications
The ISSE Indicator is a semi-annual newsletter covering the activities of ISSE researchers and staff. The files below are in PDF format.
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Research Reports and other publications
Barkenbus, Jack, R. Jamey Menard, Burton C. English, and Kim L. Jensen. “Resource and Employment Impact of a Renewable Portfolio Standard in the Tennessee Valley Authority Region” (ISSE Report No. 2006-01). This report calculates the amount and nature of renewable energy production in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region associated with Congressional passage of a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and examines the employment consequences derived from this initiative.
Bell, A., A. Layton, L. D. McKay, D. Williams, R. W. Gentry, and G. S. Sayler. 2009. Factors Influencing the Persistence of Fecal Bacteroides in Stream Water, Journal of Environmental Quality, v38, doi:10.2134/jeq2008.0258.
Das, Sujit, Bruce E. Tonn, and Jean H. Peretz. “Application of economic evaluation techniques to automotive lightweighting materials research and development projects,” Research Evaluation, 17(2), June 2008, pages 133-148 (DOI 10.3152/095820208X287153).
Davis, Kimberly L. and Robert Emmett Jones. “Understanding Public Opinion and Support for the Maintenance and Protection of Trees in Knox County, Tennessee: A Mail Survey of Area Homeowners” (ISSE Report 2006-02). This is a two-year study of attitudes of Knox County homeowners about the protection and maintenance of the local urban forest.
DeBruyn, Jennifer M., Thomas J. Mead, Steven W. Wilhelm, and Gary S. Sayler. 2009. PAH Biodegradative Genotypes in Lake Erie Sediments: Evidence for Broad Geographical Distribution of Pyrene-Degrading Mycobacteria. Environmental Science & Technology 43(10): 3467–3473.
Debruyn, Jennifer and Gary Sayler. Microbial Community Structure and Biodegradation Activity of Particle-Associated Bacteria in a Coal Tar Contaminated Creek. Environmental Science and Technology, March 27, 2009 (Web), doi: 10.1021/es803373y.
English, Mary (with Fred Wegmann, UT Civil Engineering; Jerry Everett, UT Center for Transportation Research; Shih-Lung Shaw and Yibin Zhao, UT Geography Department). “Environmental Justice in Transportation Planning and Projects: A Desk Guide for Tennessee” (ISSE Report 2007-02). This report was prepared as part of a project conducted for the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The other major part of the project was a GIS-based demographic screening tool developed by Shaw and Zhao.
English, Mary. “The Resource Team in a Context Sensitive Solutions Process” (ISSE Report 2007-01). This report is a "lessons learned" report based on observations of two CSS processes conducted for the Tennessee Department of Transportation.
Ezzell, Tim and Eric Ogle. “Destination Madisonville: A Community-Driven Downtown Revitalization Plan.” Download and read the PDF file with the Appendix or without the Appendix. The report was prepared by the Community Partnership Center and the University of Tennessee's Planning Program (Ed Jepson, Consulting Faculty).
Franklin, S. B., J. A. Kupfer, S. R. Pezeshki, R. W. Gentry, and R. D. Smith. 2009. Complex effects of channelization and levee construction on western Tennessee floodplain forest function. Wetlands 29(2): 451-464.
Franklin, S.B., J.A. Kupfer, S. R. Pezeshki, R. W. Gentry, and R. D. Smith. 2009. Efficacy of the Hydrogeomorphic Model (HGM): A Case Study from Western Tennessee. Ecological Indicators9(2): 267-283, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.05.004.
Gentry, R.W., A. Layton, L. McKay, J. McCarthy, D. Williams, S. R. Koirala, and G. S. Sayler. 2007. Efficacy of Bacteroides for Reducing the Statistical Uncertainty Associated with Hydrologic Flow and Fecal Loads in a Mixed Use Watershed, Journal of Environmental Quality 2007 36: 1324-1330.
Ivey, S. S., R. W. Gentry, D. Larsen, and J. L. Anderson. 2008. Case Study of the Sheahan Wellfield Using 3-H/3-He Field Data to Determine Localized Leakage Areas. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 13(11): 1011-1020.
Ivey, S. S., R. W. Gentry, D. Larsen, and J. L. Anderson. 2008. Inverse Application of Age-distribution Modeling using Environmental Tracers 3-H/3-He. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 13(11): 1002-1010.
Kenst, Andrew B., Edmund Perfect, Steven W. Wilhelm, Jie Zhuang, John F. McCarthy, and Larry D. McKay. 2008. Virus transport during infiltration of a wetting front into initially unsaturated sand columns. Environmental Science and Technology 42(4): 1102-1108.
Kim, Ungtae et al. 2008. Generation of Monthly Precipitation Under Climate Change for the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(5): 1231-1247. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00220.x)
Kim, Ungtae, J. J. Kaluarachchi, and V. U. Smakhtin. 2008. Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology and Water Resources of the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia. Colombo. Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Research Report 126. 27 p. ISBN 978-92-9090-696-4.
Kim, Ungtae et al. 2008. Application of parameter estimation and regionalization methodologies to ungauged basins of the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia. Journal of Hydrology 362(1-2): 39-56.
Koirala, S. R., E. Perfect, R. W. Gentry, and J. Kim (2008), Effective saturated hydraulic conductivity of two-dimensional random multifractal fields, Water Resour. Res., doi:10.1029/2007WR006199, in press.
Koirala, S.R., R. W. Gentry, E. Perfect, J. Schwartz, and Sayler, G.S. 2008. "Temporal Variation and Persistence of Bacteria in Streams," Journal of Environmental Quality, in press.
Knappett, Peter S., Monica B. Emelko, Jie Zhuang, and Larry D. McKay. 2008. Transport and retention of a bacteriophage and microspheres in saturated, angular porous media: Effects of ionic strength and grain size. Water Research, 42(16), 4368-4378.
Mayes, M. A., G. Tang, P. M. Jardine, L. D. McKay, X. L. Yin, M. N. Pace, J. C. Parker, F. Zhang, T. L. Melhorn, and R. Dansby-Sparks. 2009 (in press). Influence of sedimentary bedding on reactive transport parameters under unsaturated conditions. Soil Science of America Journal.
McCarthy, John F., Jan Ilavsky, Julie D. Jastrow, Lawrence M. Mayer, Edmunm Perfect, and Jie Zhuang. 2008. Protection of organic carbon in soil microaggregates via restructuring of aggregate porosity and filling of pores with accumulating organic matter. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 4725-4744, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.015.
Peine, John. 2007. “Social Considerations of Species Conservation,” Conservation of Rare and Little Known Species: Biological, Social and Economic Considerations, M. Raphael and R. Molina, Eds., Island Press (forthcoming November). Peine also co-authored two additional chapters for the book, “Conservation Goals and Objectives” and “A Process for Selection and Implementation of Conservation Approaches.”
Peretz, Jean, Sujit Das, and Bruce E. Tonn. 2009 August. Evaluating knowledge benefits of automotive lightweighting materials R&D projects. Evaluation and Program Planning 32(3): 300-309.
Sanseverino, J, M. Eldridge, A. Layton, J. Yarbrough, J. Easter, T.W. Schultz, and G.S. Sayler. 2008. Screening of potentially hormonally active chemicals using bioluminescent yeast bioreporters. Toxicological Sciences (published online Nov. 7, 2008, doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfn229).
Shang, Jianying, Markus Flury, Gang Chen, and Jie Zhuang. 2008. Impact of flow rate, water content, and capillary forces on in situ colloid mobilization during infiltration in unsaturated sediments. Water Resources Research, 44, W06411; doi:10.1029/2007WR006516.
Suter, Jordan F., Christian A. Vossler and Gregory L. Poe. 2008. Experiments on Damage-Based Ambient Taxes for Nonpoint Source Polluters. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(1):86-102.
Tang, G., M. A. Mayes, J. C. Parker, X. L. Yin, D. B. Watson, and P. M. Jardine. 2009. Improving parameter estimation for column experiments by multi-model evaluation and comparison. Journal of Hydrology 376, 567–578. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.07.063.
Tonn, Bruce, K.C. Healy, Amy Gibson, Ashutosh Ashish, Preston Cody, Drew Beres, Sam Lulla , Jim Mazur, and A.J. Ritter. 2009. Power from Perspective: Potential future United States energy portfolios, Energy Policy 37, 1432–1443.
Tonn, Bruce E., et al. 2008. "The Next Big Thing in Environmental Protection." ISSE Working Paper 2008-01.
Tonn, Bruce E. and Jean Peretz. 2008. "Barriers to Reducing Energy Consumption at Home and on the Road." ISSE Working Paper 2008-02.
Tonn, Bruce E. and Jean H. Peretz. 2007. “State-Level Benefits of Energy Efficiency.” Energy Policy 35: 3665-3674.
Tran, Liem T. and Thomas E. Burley. 2009. “An Analysis of Spatiotemporal Variations of Water Quality in the Little River and the Harpeth River Watersheds and their Connection with Land-Cover Patterns.” ISSE Working Paper 2009-01.
Zhang, F. and J. C. Parker. 2009 (in press). An efficient modeling approach to simulate heat and mass transfer between fracture and matrix regions for oil shale retorting. Transport in Porous Media.
Yu, Gui-Rui, Jie Zhuang, Keiichi Nakayama, and Yan Jin. 2007 Root water uptake and profile soil water as affected by vertical root distribution. Plant Ecology, 189(1), 15-30.
Zhuang, Jie, John S. Tyner, and Edmund Perfect. 2009. Colloid transport and remobilization in unsaturated porous media during transient flow. Journal of Hydrology, 377, 112-119, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.08.011
Zhuang, Jie, John F. McCarthy, Edmund Perfect, Lawrence M. Mayer, and Julie D. Jastrow. 2008 (January/February). Soil Water Hysteresis in Water-Stable Microaggregates as Affected by Organic Matter. Soil Science Society of America Journal 72(1): 212-220.
Zhuang, Jie and Yan Jin. 2008. Interactions between virus and goethite during saturated flow: effects of solution pH, carbonate, and phosphate. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 98(1-2), 15-21; DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.02.002.
Zhuang, Jie, John F. McCarthy, Edmund Perfect, John Tyner, Markus Flury, Tammo Steenhuis. 2007. In-situ colloid mobilization in Hanford sediments under unsaturated transient flow condition: Effect of irrigation pattern. Environmental Science and Technology, 41(9), 3199-3204; doi: 10.1021/es062757h.
ISSE researchers Jean Peretz and Bruce Tonn are co-authors of a recent report, “Automotive Lightweighting Materials Benefit Evaluation.” The report was produced by Oak Ridge National Laboratory as ORNL/TM-2006/545 (a PDF file); the third co-author is ORNL's Sujit Das.