Faculty Annual Report Printout

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
ANNUAL REPORTING FORM

Shawn Hawkins, Assistant Professor
Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science
Annual Performance Period: January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007

A. SUMMARY AND IMPACTS.

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

• I participated in seven grants to secure external funding and one internal Hatch fund proposal. A USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grant was awarded ($280,368) which will support an investigation to quantify antibiotic resistance gene transmission rates in municipal and dairy wastewater. A watershed restoration project was funded to install agricultural best management practices in a 303(d) listed watershed ($241,500). These proposals represent collaborative, multi-disciplinary basic and applied research efforts with Extension components spanning both disciplines in my department, a University of Tennessee Research-Center-of-Excellence (The Center for Environmental Biotechnology), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and local 2- and 4- year colleges.

• I was lead author on a manuscript web-published in Environmental Science and Technology. This journal possesses the highest impact rating (4.040) for professional journals dedicated primarily to the field of Environmental Engineering (a field encompassing 35 journals). (see ISI Web of Knowledge, 2006 journal citation reports). I was primary author and second author on two abstracts published in the Proceedings of the 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

• I had 20 significant Extension contacts with individual producers, governmental, and Extension Agents in which I advised and was afforded an opportunity to rapidly learn more about animal waste management and agent/producer training needs. Most of these visits (18) were to producer farms or extension county offices to meet personally with those involved. This represents a significant contribution to animal waste management and environmental stewardship education in the state and is in keeping with the mission of our land grant university. Though I proposed several agent in-service training ideas for 2008, none were accepted.

• I attended 16 professional meetings and workshops spanning seven states, plus the District of Columbia and Canada to expand my knowledge of animal waste management practices, challenges, and research needs.

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.

• I participated in two funded multi-disciplinary research proposals with applied/basic research and Extension education components totaling $521,868. These proposals address significant current challenges faced by animal agriculture in relation to antibiotic gene dissemination and surface water quality.

• I was lead author on a manuscript published in a journal with the highest impact factor for professional journals dedicated primarily to Environmental Engineering. I was lead author on one and second author on another abstract published in the Proceedings of the 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

• I provided engineering and technical design data and advise on CAFO management and other wide ranging issues related to biosolids and animal waste management in Tennessee (Bedford, Claiborne Giles, Hickman, Henry, Loudon, Marion, Monroe, Moore, White, Williamson Counties).

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.

Extension:
• South Regional Water Quality Program. Many participants from TN, KY, NC, SC, GA, FL, AK, LA, TX, OK, NM. USDA CSREES. Co-leader, Animal Waste Management Planning. Co-leader, conference planning for alternative animal waste management techniques. Leader, video and web publishing for animal waste management techniques. 10% effort.
• Pond Creek Protection and Water Quality Improvement Project. 10% effort
Research:
• Unbiased tagging, isolation, and genomic characterization of bacteriophage transduction events in wastewater ecosytems. USDA BRAG Grant. Drs. Steve Ripp and Alice Layton co-investigators. 10% effort.

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

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
CAFO Nutrient Management Plan Record Keeping Requirements. Fall meeting of the Eastern Region Tennessee Association of Agricultural Agents and Specialists, December 12, 2007.	Multi-county	1	25
Agronomic Manure Applications: How Crop Yield, Field Soil, and Analytical Variability Affects our Ability to Accurately Apply Nutrients for Crop Uptake. EPA Region IV Enforcement Group CAFO Workshop. December 4, 2007, Nashville, TN.	Regional	1	15

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:
Level of students	No. of students advised	Major professor	Committee member
Undergraduate
Masters			1
Doctoral

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.

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.

Hawkins, S. A., Robinson, K. G., Layton, A. C., and Sayler, G. S.. 2007. Response of Nitrobacter spp. ribosomal gene and transcript abundance following nitrite starvation and exposure to mechanistically distinct inhibitors. Environmental Science and Technology, website published December 29, 2007.

2. Book chapters or books.

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

Hawkins, S. A. 2007. Funding Available to Address Livestock Drought Stress. UTIA Web Packet News and Information for Use by Agents, September 4, 2007.

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

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

Hawkins, S. A., Ripp, S., Layton, A. C., Williams, D. E., and Sayler, G. S.. 2007. Genome Sequence and a Real Time PCR Detection System for the Potential Human Fecal Pollution Indicator Phage ATCC 51477-B1. Proceedings of the 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Abstract Q-510.

Moser, S., S. A. Hawkins, McReynolds, W., Ripp, S., Johnson, C., and Vijayaraghavn, R.. 2007. Microeletronic bioluminescent biosensor monitoring of VOC contaminants. Proceedings of the 107th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Abstract Q-248.

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.

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).

Womac, A. R. (40%), W. E. Hart (20%), S. A. Hawkins (10%), M. Radosevich (10%), A. M. Johnson (20%). Land Application of By-Products from 1,3 Propanediol (BioPDO) Fermentation Process. Dupont-Tate & Lyle Bio-Products Company. 9/15/07. $260,852. (rejected)

Steven Ripp (40%), Jennifer Brigati (25%), S. A. Hawkins (25%). Genomic characterization of bacteriophages infecting Bacteroides fragilis. NSF/USDA. 3/8/07. $396,182. (rejected)

Steven Ripp (35%), S. A. Hawkins (35%), Peter Tsai (15%), Syed Islam (10%), Gary Sayler (5%). BBIC BioSniffer sensing of Escherichia coli O157-H7. USDA. 1/23/07. $587,358. (rejected)

Hawkins, S. A. (50%), F. R. Walker (25%), D. C. Yoder (25%). Demonstration of the Effectiveness of Biosolids and Agricultural Compost Blankets for Erosion Contro. EPA Region 4. 9/10/07. $74,503. (still pending)

Hawkins, S. A. (50%), Alice Layton (50%). Activated sludge metagenome for a large industrial wastewater treatment plant degrading low molecula. DOE Joint Genome Institute. 3/12/07. $0. (rejected)

Hawkins, S. A. (80%), J. B. Wills, Jr. (10%), Alice Layton (10%). Fecal Source Identification and Quantification at the Blount County Tennessee Agricultural Experimen. University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station. 3/31/07. $50,000. (rejected)

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

Walker, F. R. (50%), S. A. Hawkins (50%). Pond Creek Protection and Water Quality Improvement Project. Tennessee Department of Agriculture. 10/1/07-9/30/12. $241,500.

Steven Ripp (50%), S. A. Hawkins (25%), Alice Layton (25%). Unbiased tagging, isolation, and genomic characterization of bacteriophage transduction events in wa. USDA. 10/1/07-9/30/10. $280,368.

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.

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). • Runyon Industries. Water and solvent extraction of salts from residual soap stock treated with acid to extract oils for animal feed. Buffer capacity of water extract. Energy yield of dried residual solids. October - November, 2007.
	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. • Rollins Farms. Joint meeting with Center for Agricultural Profitability and Giles County Agent. Poultry litter morality compost maturity advisement. April 24, 2007, Pulaski, Giles County, TN. • Tosh Farms. Inspect new deep pit swine barns and Class I CAFOs nutrient management rule advisement. May 1, 2007, Paris, Henry County, TN. • Moss Dairy Farm. Joint meeting with Henry County Agent, National Resource Conservation Service. Compost dairy barn animal waste management and EQIP funding advisement. May 2, 2007, Paris, Henry County, TN. • Several Poultry Farms. Joint meeting with Marion County Agent John Wilson and three producers. Advise concerning mass mortality management which was being experienced on several farms (8,000-10,000/growout). Contacted State Veterinarian who subsequently investigated (post-mortem) mortalities for one of the two integrators that works with these producers. May 11, 2007, Whitwell, Marion County, TN. • Bedford County poultry producer (Ricky Reed). Poultry house water supply and pond algae troubleshooting. New systems designs provided to eliminate both problems. July 12, 2007, Shelbyville, Bedford County, TN. • Osborne Dairy Farm. Joint meeting with Paul and Sarah Moss. Compost dairy barn animal waste management and EQIP funding advisement. July 12, 2007, Nolansville, Williamson County, TN. • Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. Odor audit and spent mushroom compost advisement. June 21, 2007, Loudon, Loudon County, TN. • Tennessee National. Odor audit advisement. June 8, 2007, Loudon, Loudon County, TN. • Various Moore County beef and dairy feedlots. Inspect and advise for beef feedlot manure management, July 11, 2007, Lynchburg, Moore County, TN. • LeFever Dairy Farm. Joint meeting with Paul and Sarah Moss. Compost dairy barn animal waste management and EQIP funding advisement. July 25, 2007, Sparta, White County TN. • Steve Harrison Dairy Farm. Joint meeting with Paul and Sarah Moss. Compost dairy barn animal waste management and EQIP funding advisement. July 25, 2007, Loudon, Loudon County, TN. • Hickman County. Advise for placement of potential new 4,000 cow dairy (meeting with representatives of Yoplait, producer, and Hickman County Mayor). August 6, 2007, Centerville, Hickman County, TN. • Springbrook Farms. Rough survey new pipeline enabling relocation of dry cows off of Pond Creek; inspect waterer precast pads; size and order new waterers. August 23, 2007, Sweetwater, TN and Madisonville, Monroe County, TN. • Springbrook Farms. Detailed survey with Joe Sarten for new pipeline enabling relocation of dry cows off of Pond Creek. September 5, 2007, Sweetwater, Monroe County, TN. • Henry County. Review lab results and advise on application and crop removal rates of nutrients and legal requirements for land application of Class B biosolids. Email and phone correspondence with Utility District, County Agent, and EnSafe, Inc. (a Nashville engineering firm Henry County retained to coordinate bioslids application). October, 2007. • Putnam County. Review lab results and advise on application rates of Class A biosolids. Email and phone correspondence with Utility and County Agent. November, 2007. • Valley Home Farm. Class I Poultry CAFO water supply system design, water quality, and nutrient management plant/EQIP advisement. October 24, 2007, Wartrace, Bedford County, TN. • Watson Dairy. Joint meeting with producer, Pond Creek Watershed Extension representative Lena Beth Carmichael, and the USDA Resource Conservation Service. Review design/as build of dairy scrape alley and ramp, collaborate on new design to remediate waste retention problem on end of ramp. November 19, 2007, Sweetwater, Monroe County, TN. • Williamson County beef feedlot. Joint meeting between producer, Forbes Walker, Williamson County agent. Beef feedlot runoff management and CAFO permit requirements. December, 3, 2007, Franklin, Williamson County, TN. • Hickory View Dairy. Joint meeting with Jim Shipley and Mike Heiskell, Claiborne County Extension Agent. Demonstrated correct method to sample large dairy solids retention pond. CAFO nutrient management and record keeping requirements advisement. December 31, 2007, Speedwell, Claiborne County TN.
	d. Other (e.g. Ag Day activities, Varsity Visit, judging, presentations at clubs and K-12 schools).
2. Professional service (for professional colleagues).
	a. Within the university.
		I. Committee work. Briefly describe your involvement during the reporting period.
			i. University. • Center for Environmental Biotechnology, a UT Research-Center-of-Excellence (member).
			ii. UTIA. • Animal Waste Management/Water Quality (committee member). • Litter River Dairy Farm (Technical specification of ammonia air emissions monitoring equipment). July, 2007. • Litter River Dairy Farm (Bacteriodes real time pcr sampling protocol). September, 2007. • Little River Dairy Farm (geologic investigation of residuum above bedrock). October 4, 2007. • Little River Dairy Farm. Analysis Report for Fecal Source Identification (2006-2007). October 4, 2007.
			iii. Department.
		II. Other (e.g. technical assistance to colleagues, peer reviews, mentoring of junior faculty, hosting visiting scientists).
	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.). • American Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers (member) • American Society for Microbiology (member) • Tennessee Association of Agricultural Agents and Specialists (member) • Tennessee Section of the American Water Resources Association (member) • Tennessee CAFO Regulations Advisory Board (member) • CSREES Southern Region Water Quality Program (Animal Waste Management Section - co-leader for the 2008 proposal) • CSREES Southern Region Water Quality Program (Tennessee representative for Animal Waste Management) • Peer Reviewer. Environmental Science and Technology. • Inter-state Extension Publication Peer Reviewer. • Technical Reviewer for Natural Resources Conservation Service. TN Beef feedlot site evaluation tool.

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

• University of Tennessee Extension Workers Orientation. March 6-8, 2007, Knoxville, TN (participant).

• Responding to Water Contamination Events: Readiness, Recognition, and Response. University of Tennessee Water Seminar. March 28, 2007, Knoxville, TN. (participant)

• Anaerobic Treatment of Agricultural Wastes. [12 professional engineering development hours]. Iowa State University. May 21-22, 2007, Des Moines, IA. (participant)

• Tennessee Branch of the American Water Resources Association Meeting. April 17-19, 2007. Burns, TN. (participant)

• USDA Workshop on Nutrients, Pathogens, and Odor. USDA ARS Animal Waste Management Research Unit. April 25, 2007, Bowling Green, KY. (participant)

• Tennessee Chapter Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Spring Meeting 2007. Soil and water Conservation Society Annual Spring Meeting. May 9, 2007, West Tennessee Research and Education Center, Jackson, TN. (participant)

• Spent Stillage (Mash) Feeding Operations. NRCS sponsored Training on Site Evaluation & Conservation Planning Processes. May 17, 2007, Murfreesboro, TN. (participant and adviser)

• International Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. May 21-25, 2007, Toronto, Canada. (participant and poster presenter)

• Iowa State University Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department. Review current research being conducted by Drs. Robert Burns and Hongwei Xin; Iowa State University Dairy Experiment Station, beef feedlot runoff and turkey and swine farrowing ammonia emissions experiment sites. June 11-14, 2007, Ames, IA. (participant)

• International Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers. American Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers, June 17-20, 2007, Minneapolis, MN. (participant)

• University of Tennessee Extension Super Training/Registration Module. August 20, 2007, Knoxville, TN (participant).

• Microbial Source Tracking Workshop. EPA Region V. September 14, 2007, Chicago, IL. (participant)

• International Symposium on Air Quality and Waste Management for Agriculture. American Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers. September 16-19, 2007, Broomfield, CO. (participant)

• Henry County Extension Agent. Engineering calculation to size swine mortality composter for a Henry County producer; recommendations for sighting, construction method, operation, and equipment requirements. October 8, 2007.

• Grantsmanship Workshop. USDA/CSREES. October 9, 2007, Washington, D.C. (participant)

• Writing Winning Grants Workshop. USDA/CSREES, October 10, 2007; Washington, D.C. (participant)

• Sustainable Agricultural Phosphorous Management Workshop. South Region Water Quality Conference. October 15, 2007, Fayetteville, AR. 2007 (participant

• Extension’s Role in Stormwater Phase II. CSREES South Region Water Quality. October 17, 2007, Fayetteville, AR. 2007. (participant)

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.

Classification	FTE's per semester
Classification	Spring	Summer	Fall
Postdoctoral fellows
Research associates, assistants, technicians	1	1
Extension associates, assistants
Graduate students, assistants	1
Undergraduate students
Clerical personnel
Other

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

• Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of Agriculture. April 12, 2007.