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Take a look at what our Biosystems Enginerring Students are doing:
EPA names Clemson a Center of Excellence for Watershed Management in South Carolina

CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson University was recognized as a Center of Excellence for Watershed Management by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday. This is only the third such center to be designated in the Southeast and the first center in the nation that focuses on using remotely sensed monitoring data, enabling scientists to collect and analyze information through this type of data network.

The entire article is available in PDF form (366 KB).

Coastal Heritage Article:
Slowing Stormwater: Improving Water Quality by Imitating Nature

Biosystems Engineering Faculty involved in research: Daniel Hitchcock, Anand Jayakaran, and Cal Sawyer

This article is available in PDF form (8.31 MB) or on-line through the SC Sea Grant website at http://www.scseagrant.org/Content/?cid=314 and click on the PDF version.

The 2007 Clarke Lecture

"Undiminished growth in the world’s population and the spread of industrialization to former agricultural societies have put relentless pressure on resources for food and fuel, as well as on rejected energy in the form of plant nutrients that can seriously pollute receiving waters. This paper will look at the causes of deterioration of the water environment and how plant nutrients can be recovered while solving many pollution problems.

Proteins can be recovered from wastewater to augment food supplies, urine can be separated and used as fertilizer, phosphorus can be recovered and used in fertilizers or incorporated in compost, algae can be grown and harvested for converting to biodiesel fuel, wastewater biosolids can be turned into organic fertilizers, and water can be reclaimed for reuse, which would prevent the deterioration of receiving water quality."

Excerpt from the paper: Elimination of Eutrophication Through Resource Recovery
by James L. Barnard, Ph.D., Pr.Eng., BCEE

The entire paper is available on-line at the National Water Research Institute.
(2.01 MB PDF and 3.02 MB PowerPoint downloads are also available)