The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
ANNUAL REPORTING FORM
 
John Tyner, Assistant Professor
Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science
Annual Performance Period: January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006


A. SUMMARY AND IMPACTS.

1. Summary. Provide an overall summary (500 words or less) of your accomplishments during the reporting period.

Teaching:

I taught two undergraduate classes to a total of approximately 70 students. I also mentored the UT Fountain Wars student team to First Place overall and Most Innovative Design at the International ASABE meeting held at Portland, Oregon. Two undergraduates BSE students gained valuable experience conducting research for my programs during the summer semester.

Research and Funding:

I published 4 peer reviewed manuscripts (3 as the corresponding author) and submitted another 3 manuscripts that are in review. I submitted 8 grant proposals ($712,968), 6 as the lead author ($207,988). Three were funded ($8,105), and the remainder are pending.


2. Impacts. List up to three significant impacts of your program. Impact statements should be one to three sentences and should be written in a way that would be meaningful to the public.

We developed a rapid method to measure the permeability of soil. This type of test is commonly used to describe how easily water and air can move through a soil. Our new testing procedure allows measurements to be collected autonomously.

We developed an improved model to estimate the flowrate of leachate from animal waste holding ponds. Results suggests that the flowrate is nearly independent of soil type.




B. PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS (EXTENSION, RESEARCH AND TEACHING). As applicable, list title, names of participants (PIs, Leaders, Co-PIs, Co-leaders, Collaborators etc.), project number, sponsor, your role ( leader/co-leader/collaborator) and your percent effort on the project as stated in the project description or document.

Tyner, J (PI 75%), J. Lee, A. Cihan, D. Smith, J. Wilkerson, and W. Wright. Development of Improved Techniques and Models to Quantify Multi-phase Flow and Transport. Hatch Project.

Tyner, J (PI 80%), M. Essington (Co-PI 10%), J. Lee (Co-PI 10%). Subsurface Phosphorous Transport by Colloid Association and Preferential Flow. USGS. R11-1416-070.

Tyner, J. S. (100%). Permeable Concrete and Soil Infiltration Testing. Tennessee Concrete Association. R11-1416-077

Lee, J (PI 90%), J. Tyner (Co-PI 10%). Development of a novel heat-pulse probe for the simultaneous measurement of soil water flow. UTIA-Idea Grant.

Tyner, J (PI 50%), D. Yoder (Co-PI 50%). Development of RUSLE2 for Construction Site Applications. WI Dep. of Nat. Res. R11-1416-064.

Wilson, L. (PI 50%), J. Tyner (Co-PI 15%), Etnier, D. (Co-PI 15%), Coutant, C. (Co-PI 20%). Biological and Temperature Survey and 316a Demonstration Report for the Pigeon River, North Carolina. Blue Ridge Paper Company. R11-2219-165.


C. INSTRUCTION, TEACHING AND EXTENSION EDUCATION. Detail credit and non-credit instruction and teaching activities.

1. College credit instruction. List courses in which you were an instructor or guest lecturer during the current calendar year. Include special topics, independent study and internship courses. Provide course number and title, your involvement, semester(s), credit hours and number of students. Please append a summary of teaching evaluations (student and/or peer) if this information is available.

Course number and title Involvement Semester Credit
hours		 Number of
students
CE416 Hydrologic and Water Quality EngineeringTotalSpring328
BsE416 Hydrologic & Water Quality Eng.TotalSpring34
CE416 Hydrologic and Water Quality EngineeringTotalFall332
BsE480 Selected Topics in Biosystems EngineeringTeamFall36
BsE416 Hydrologic & Water Quality Eng.TotalFall37

2. Formal continuing education (certification programs, seminar series, in-service training, field days, faculty and/or staff training, journal club, etc.). Provide descriptive title of activity, your involvement, number of participants or students involved, number and duration of each session.

Descrip. title, including dates Involvement Number of students
or participants		 Number of
sessions		 Duration of each
session (hours)
         

3. Extension presentations and workshops. Indicate title, type, and scope of presentation; number of times presented; attendance estimates. Include evidence of effectiveness (e.g. evaluation summaries) where applicable.

Title/Type of presentation Scope Number of times presented Total attendees
       

4. Public addresses to lay audiences (TV/radio presentations, service groups, etc.). Indicate title, type, scope of presentation; number of times presented; attendance estimates. Include evidence of effectiveness (e.g. evaluation summaries) where applicable.

Title/Type of presentation Scope Number of times presented Total attendees
       

5. Presentations at professional meetings, without published abstracts. List presenter, co-authors (if any), title, date and name of meeting (list scientific oral or poster presentations having published abstracts or proceedings at D5).

6. Student mentoring. Fill in the boxes to indicate number of students in each category.

Level of students No. of students advised No. of active graduate committees on which you served as:
Major professor Committee member
Undergraduate      
Masters     2 
Doctoral   1  1 

7. Student or commodity club activities (e.g. club advisor, team competitions, honor or professional societies, etc.). List the club or group; your role with the club or group; and the activities, honors or awards received by this group under your mentorship.

Mentored the undergraduate Fountain Wars Team throughout the spring and into the summer Semester. The team competed at the ASABE International G. B. Gunlogson Environmental Student Design Competition.

8. Other instructional and teaching activities.


D. PUBLICATIONS. List only publications that were published during the annual reporting period (for #8, submitted during reporting period). Format citations as typical and appropriate for outlet. If a co-author(s) is a student or was working under your direct supervision, place an asterisk after that person's name.

1. Refereed articles or refereed reviews appearing in peer-reviewed professional journals.

Cihan, A.*, J. S. Tyner, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  Seal Formation beneath Animal Waste Holding Ponds.  Transactions of the ASABE. 49(5):1539-1544.

Freeland, R. S., L. O. Odhiambo, J. S. Tyner, J. T. Ammons, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  Non-intrusive mapping of near-surface preferential flow.  Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 22(2)315:319.

Tyner, J. S., L. M. Arya, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  The Dual Gravimetric Hot-Air Method for Measuring Soil Water Diffusivity.  Vadose Zone Journal. 5(4)1267-1272.

Tyner, J. S., W. C. Wright, and J. Lee.  2006.  Lagoon sealing and filter cakes.  Transactions of the ASABE. 49(2):527-531.

2. Book chapters or books.

3. Bulletins, reports, circulars, pamphlets, factsheets.

Tyner, J. S.  2006.  Measurement and Development of a Pigeon River Temperature Model. 

4. Popular press, trade, UTIA magazine or newsletter articles.

Tyner, J. S.  2006.  Grad Student Wins Award.  CASNR Report (Describes award of NSF funded summer scholarhip to Dr. Tyner's student).

Tyner, J. S.  2006.  Biosystems Engineering Students Win 1st Place.  College of Engineering Newsletter (describes success of Fountain Wars Team).

5. Abstracts from scientific or discipline meetings, papers from conference proceedings, etc.

Cihan, A.*, J. S. Tyner, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  Seal formation beneath animal waste holding ponds.  TN State ASABE Section Meeting. Knoxville, TN, June 13.

Tyner, J. S., A. Cihan, and W. C. Wright.  2006.  The leakage rate of liquid animal waste.  ASABE Annual International Meeting, Portland, OR, July 10-13.

Zhuang, J., J. F. McCarthy, E. Perfect, J. S. Tyner, M. Flury, and T. S. Steinhuis.  2006.  In-situ colloid mobilization in Hanford sediments under unsaturated transient conditions: Effects of irrigation pattern.  Geol. Soc. of Amer. S.E. Section 55th Annual meeting, Knoxville TN, March 23-24.

6. Theses/Dissertations completed by students that you directed.

7. Other publications.

8. Articles submitted during the reporting period that are in review, in press or rejected. Please do not list articles in preparation.

Zhuang, J., J. F. McCarthy, E. Perfect, J. S. Tyner, M. Flury, and T. S. Steenhuis.  2006.  The coupled effect of flux rate and ionic strength on the transport of colloids through porous media under unsaturated transient flow conditions.   (in review)


E. FUNDING. Format each entry as a citation, include as applicable: investigators (with percent effort shown on grant or contract document), title, source/agency.

1. Grant and contract proposals submitted but not awarded during this reporting period. Indicate date of submission and status (still pending, rejected).

Freeland, R. S. (50%), J. T. Ammons (25%), J. S. Tyner (25%).  Human Pathogen Source, Transport and Fate within the Near-surface Groundwater of Agric. Watersheds.  USDA CSREES.  1/17/06.  $400,000.  (rejected)

Jie Zhuang (60%), Randall Gentry (5%), J. S. Tyner (5%), John McCarthy (25%), Larry McKay (5%).  Influence of Transient Wetting Fronts on Multi-dimensional Colloid Transport in Heterogeneous Sedime.  NSF.  6/1/06.  $356,980.  (still pending)

Tyner, J. S. (80%), X. P. Ye (20%).  Environmental Benefits of Infiltrating Stormwater with Pervious Concrete: A Comparison of Options.  RMC Research Foundation.  10/13/06.  $58,811.  (still pending)

Tyner, J. S. (80%), Lalit Arya (20%).  Development of a Dual Gravimetric Hot-Air Method .  NSF.  8/15/06.  $141,074.  (still pending)

Tyner, J. S. (100%).  Development of a Gravimetric Hot-Air Method to Measure Soil Hydraulic Properties.  NSF.  9/14/06.  $141,074.  (still pending)

Tracy Moir-McClean (54%), Mark DeKay (11%), J. S. Tyner (28%), Research Assist. (8%).  LID Practices for Urban Neighborhoods, Handbook I.  EPA.  8/15/06.  $150,000.  (still pending)

Tyner, J. S. (100%).  Measurement of TSS & Other Pollutant Removal by Pervious Conccrete & Incorporation of Results......  TNDEC.  7/16/06.  $34,710.  (still pending)

2. Grants and contracts awarded during this reporting period. List inclusive period of support (start and end dates) and total amount of award.

Tyner, J. S. (100%).  Permeable Concrete and Soil Infiltration Testing.  Tennessee Concrete Association.  3/15/06-3/15/07.  $5,000.

Tyner, J. S. (100%).  Development of an Online Teaching Module to Apply Statistics to Hydrologic Problems.  Innovative technology Center.  3/1/06-3/1/07.  $2,346.

Tyner, J. S. (100%).  Development of an Automated Permeameter.  Decagon Devices Inc..  9/27/06-5/31/07.  $1,500.

3. Grants and contracts awarded in past years that continued into this reporting period. List inclusive period of support (start and end dates) and total amount of award.

Tyner, J. S. (80%), M. E. Essington (10%), J. Lee (10%).  Subsurface Phosphorous Transport by Colloid Association and Preferential Flow.  USGS .  3/1/05-2/28/06.  $27,228.

T. S. Steenhuis (40%), B. K. Richards (10%), J. F. McCarthy (30%), J. S. Tyner (10%), A. Dathe (10%).  Visualization and Quantification of Bacterial Transport in Sand under Steady & Transient Flow..  USDA NRI.  10/1/05-10/1/08.  $500,000.

Lee, J. (90%), J. S. Tyner (10%).  Development of a novel heat-pulse probe for the simultaneous measurement of soil water flow.  UTIA- Idea Grant.  8/5/05-12/31/06.  $2,500.

L. Wilson (50%), J. S. Tyner (15%), D. Etnier (15%), C. Coutant (20%).  Biological and Temperature Survey and 316a Demonstration Report for the Pigeon River, North Carolina.  Blue Ridge Paper Company.  5/1/05-5/1/06.  $171,300.

4. Gifts. List recipients, donor, items or amount donated and dollar equivalent received during the reporting period.

5. Grant reports submitted. List authors, title, to whom submitted, date submitted.

6. Other (e.g. sales, royalties).


F. OTHER CREATIVE ACTIVITIES.

1. Tech. advances (intell. prop., patent, copyright, products, processes, genetic lines/varieties).

2. Computer software (e.g. instructional or research software, CD ROMs).

3. Educational tools.

4. Internet activities.

5. Other creative products and activities.


G. SERVICE. List client outreach activities (both public and private sectors) and professional service.
    
1. Client service.
 a. Commodity or discipline group service activities. List committees, offices held or other roles.

b. Clinical and diagnostic services. List type of service provided and client(s).

c. Service to individual producers, businesses, or corporations as a specialist, consultant or expert advisor (whether paid or unpaid). List your one-on-one service activities with this group of clients.

Serve on the Farragut, Tennessee Stormwater Advisory Committee. The committee meets monthly to provide guidance to the city on issues related to stormwater and other environmental issues.

d. Other (e.g. Ag Day activities, Varsity Visit, judging, presentations at clubs and K-12 schools).

Future Farmers of America Day

Agricultural Mechanization Day

Farragut, Tenn. Science Fair Judge


2. Professional service (for professional colleagues).
a. Within the university.
I. Committee work. Briefly describe your involvement during the reporting period.
i. University.

University of Tennessee Cycling Team Faculty Representative

ii. UTIA.

Gamma Sigma Delta Awards Committee



iii. Department.

Departmental Awards Committee

Departmental Representative to the College of Engineering

Departmental Ad Hoc Recruiting Committee

Departmental Curriculum Committee

Manager of departmental radiation sources


II. Other (e.g. technical assistance to colleagues, peer reviews,
mentoring of junior faculty, hosting visiting scientists).

An active reviewer for the following journals and organizations:

Transactions of the ASABE
Geophysical Research Letters
National Science Foundation
Canadian Biosystems Engineering
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Soil Science Society of America Journal


b. Outside the university (e.g. committee work/offices in professional or public organizations or societies, editorship, editorial boards, review of manuscripts (indicate outlet) and project proposals (indicate agency), meetings organized, member of grant review panel or study section, moderator, etc.).

Chair of the ASABE P-121 Committee (G. B. Gunlogson Student Environmental Design Competition, which directs the Student Fountain Wars Competition and the Open Competition)




H. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (meetings, workshops, classes, trips, etc.). List the event or activity, sponsor, duration of event and your role.

NSF Grant Writing Seminar (1 Day)


I. PERSONNEL SUPERVISION. List the postdoctoral fellows, research associates, research assistants, technicians, extension associates, extension assistants, graduate assistants, undergraduate students, clerical personnel or others that you supervised during the year.

ClassificationFTE's per semester
SpringSummerFall
Postdoctoral fellows      
Research associates, assistants, technicians      
Extension associates, assistants      
Graduate students, assistants 1  1  1 
Undergraduate students   2   
Clerical personnel      
Other      


J. HONORS AND AWARDS. List honors and awards received during reporting period, including the name of the organization presenting the award.

Jointly received the national EPA award for the Most Environmentally Beneficial Best Practice. This award was delivered at the National Environmental Partnership Summit for an environmental audit of the Pigeon River, North Carolina. The work was conducted jointly with UT’s Dept. of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, and ORNL.

Mentored the Fountain Wars Team to 1strd place overall and most innovative design at the ASABE International G. B. Gunlogson Environmental Student Design Competition.