Faculty Annual Report Printout

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
ANNUAL REPORTING FORM

Daniel Yoder, 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.

- continued substantial work on the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, including especially: 1) advances in science under the supervision of USDA-ARS scientists; 2) support for USDA-NRCS nationwide implementation, which is now complete throughout the 50 states and the US territories and protectorates, but which requries updates and corrections; 3) correction of errors in the code as they are reported via an automated bug-reporting system; 4) close cooperation with other researchers desiring to use RUSLE2 erosion results in their scientific and management models, including especially the MMP manaure management program being developed at Purdue University and implemetned throughout the US by USDA-NRCS; 5) development of new technology for estimating erosion from pasture and managed forge areas. The RUSLE effort included the oversight of one full-time employee and two graduate assistants;

- significant committee responsibilities, including: Chair of CASNR Undergraduate Council, BsE Undergraduate Program Coordinator, chair of BsE Curriculum Committee, member of BEES Academic Coordinating Committee, BsE Assessment Committee, BESS Teaching Peer Review Committee, CASNR Recruiting Committee, CASNR Key Contact Group, COE Curriculum Committee, and COE EFD Liaison Committee. Am also currently serving on three search committees, including one in BsE, one in the Engineering Fundamentals Division, and one in Civil and Environmental Engineering;

- general oversight of the BsE curriculum and timetable;

- service as ASAE Associate Editor, and technical reviewer for 19 additional technical articles or proposals;

- teaching of six courses (including a new course, BsE404), plus major responsibility for the Graduate Seminar

- oversight of one MS and one PhD projects, and active membership on two MS & three PhD committees;

- two refereed articles published;

- receipt of almost $194,000 in external grant funding

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.

The RUSLE2 erosion prediction model was developed by researchers at The University of Tennessee in cooperation with scientists and field personnel from USDA-Agricultural Research Service and USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). RUSLE2 has now been implemented in the 2500+ NRCS field offices across the US and its protectorates and territories, and is being used an estimate 5000 times a day to compare management alternatives for their ability to reduce erosion and to enhance soil quality. In addition, RUSLE2 is now being used for planning on construction sites, helping managers keep sediment from damaging streams and rivers by comparing best management practices using cost-benefit analyses.

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.

2006-2011. Yoder, D.C. (10%, leader, PI) and J. Lyon. Support and development of RUSLE science. USDA-ARS. $150,109
2006-2009. Yoder, D.C. (10%, leader, PI), and J. Lyon. RUSLE Maintenance. USDA-NRCS. $112,888 (will be added to yearly).

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
BsE603 Seminar	Team	Spring	1	1
BsET503 Seminar	Team	Spring	1	4
ESS324 Soil and Water Conservation	Total	Spring	3	20
BsE104 Design Apprenticeship	Total	Spring	1	9
ESS503 Seminar	Team	Spring	1	5
BsE503 Seminar	Team	Spring	1	5
BsE402 Biosystems Engineering Design II	Coordinator	Spring	6	6
BsE401 Biosystems Engineering Design I*(OC)	Team	Fall	2	6
BsET503 Seminar	Team	Fall	1	5
BsE503 Seminar	Team	Fall	1	1
ESS503 Seminar	Team	Fall	1	4
BsET574 Environmental instrumentation and monitoring	Total	Fall	3	4
BsE201 Career Opportunities	Total	Fall	1	10
BsE404 Engineering Project Management	Total	Fall	3	6
BsET474 Envir. Instrumentation & Monitoring	Total	Fall	3	7
BsE603 Seminar	Team	Fall	1	2

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:
Level of students	No. of students advised	Major professor	Committee member
Undergraduate	45
Masters		1	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.

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.

Roberto N. Barbosa, J. B. Wilkerson, D. C. Yoder, and H. Paul Denton. 2007. Sensing Techniques for Geomorphometric Measurements. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 59 (2007) 13-20.

Yoder, D. C., J. S. Tyner, J. D. Balousek, J. C. Panuska, J. R. Buchanan, K. J. Kirsch, and J. P. Lyon. 2007. Conservation planning for construction sites. Trans. ASABE. 50(5): 1613-1618 .

2. Book chapters or books.

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

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

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

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).

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)

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

Yoder, D. C. (100%). Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, Version 2 (RUSLE2) Maintenance.. USDA NRCS. 5/20/07-9/30/07. $74,000.

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.

Yoder, D. C. (10%), J. P. Lyon (90%). RUSLE Maintenance. USDA. 8/1/06-4/30/09. $112,888.

Yoder, D. C. (10%), J. P. Lyon (90%). Planning tools for CNMP. USDA. 8/1/06-9/30/07. $12,000.

Yoder, D. C. (10%), J. P. Lyon (90%). RUSLE Science Support and Development. USDA. 8/21/06-8/14/11. $150,109.

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).
Yoder, D. C., and J. P. Lyon. 2007. RUSLE2 Software NRCS Release. Approved and certified release of RUSLE2 software posted on the official USDA-NRCS RUSLE2 website (4/5/2007).
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.
	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. College of Engineering Curriculum Committee, member College of Engineering ABET Planning/Coordinating Committee, member Civil & Env. Eng. Faculty Search Committee, member Engineering Fundamentals Faculty Search Committee, member Engineering Fundamentals Liaison Committee, member
			ii. UTIA. CASNR Undergraduate Council , chair CASNR Key Contact Group , member CASNR Recruiting Committee, member
			iii. Department. BsE Undergraduate Program Coordinator BsE Curriculum Committee, chair BsE Program Assessment Committee, member BEES Academic Coordinating Committee, member BEES Teaching Peer Review Committee, member
		II. Other (e.g. technical assistance to colleagues, peer reviews, mentoring of junior faculty, hosting visiting scientists). mentor to two junior faculty
	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.). Associate Editor, ASAE Reviewer of 19 technical publications (Trans. ASAE, J. Soil Water Cons., SSSA J., J. AWRA, J. Environ Quality) in addition to Assoc. Editor responsibilities

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

ASTM Summer meeting, June 24-27. Participated in 4 Technical Sessions and three Committee meetings

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	2.5	2.5	2.5
Extension associates, assistants
Graduate students, assistants	1	1	1
Undergraduate students		1	1
Clerical personnel
Other

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