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David
E. Brune
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Office Address:
224 McAdams Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0312
Phone: (864) 656-4068
Fax: (864) 656-0338
Email to: debrune@clemson.edu
Academic Rank: Professor and Newman Endowed Chair of Natural Resources Engineering Degrees:
Ph.D.,
Sanitary Engineering
, University of Missouri -- 1978
M.S., Agricultural Engineering, University of Missouri -- 1975
B.S., Agricultural Engineering, University of Missouri --1974
Service
at Clemson University:
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 1987- 1990
Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 1990-present
Newman Endowed Chair of Natural Resources Engineering, 1999-present
Other
Related Experience:
Assistant
Professor Agricultural Engineering Pennsylvania State University,
1982-86
Assistant Professor, Agricultural Engineering University of
California-Davis 1978-82
Research Assistant, Sanitary Engineering, University of Missouri, 1975-78
Research Assistant, Agricultural Engineering, Oregon State University,
1975
Research Assistant, Agricultural Engineering, University of Missouri,
1974-75
Research
Interest:
Water Quality,
Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Biofuels,Ecological Engineering.
Recent Funded Research Projects:
Engineering Ecosystems for High Rate
Sustainable Marine Shrimp.
Use of the Controlled Eutrophication Processes to Reduce Nitrogen and
Phosphorus Concentrations Entering the Salton Sea .
Salton Sea Biological Remediation.
Control of Bluegreen Algae in Aquaculture Ponds.
High Yield Sustainable Aquaculture.
Electromagnetic Terrain Conductivity in Quantifying the Impact of Animal Waste Application on Surface and Ground Water Quality.
State
in which registered:
South
Carolina, Professional Engineer (P.E.),
South Carolina , Licensed General Contractor
Professional
Societies:
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
World Aquaculture Society
Aquacultural Engineering Society, Founding Member, Board of Directors and Past President
Honors
and Awards:
Sigma Xi,
Scientific Research Society
Alpha Epsilon, Agricultural Engineering Honor Society
Ford-New Holland Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Aquacultural Engineering Society, “Outstanding Research Paper Award”, 2002
Lund Teaching Award, Clemson University, Biosystems Engineering, 2002
Patents:
“Partitioned Aquaculture System,” U.S. No. 6192833, 2002
“Controlled Eutrophication Process,” U.S. Patent Pending, 2003
Current Courses:
Nonpoint Source Pollution Control and Management, BE 364
Applications in Biotechnical Engineering, BE 435
Newman Seminar in Natural Resources Engineering, BE 451
Machine Unit Operations, BE 357
Recent Publications:
Brune, D.E., J.A. Collier and T.E. Schwedler, Partitioned Aquaculture System, United States Patent No. 6,192,833, February 2001.
Brune, D.E., G. Schwartz, A.G. Eversole, J.A. Collier and T.E. Schwedler, Intensification of Pond Aquaculture and High Rate Photosynthetic Systems, Aquacultural Engineering 28: 65-86, 2003.
Brune, D.E., Hong Wei Yen, Jack Van Olst, M.J. Massingill, J.M. Carlberg and John R. Benemann, 2002, Integrated Production of Biofuel, Biofertilizer, and High Value Aquatic Biomass in a Controlled Eutrophicaiton Process, Proceedings of the International Conference: Bioenergy, 2003.
Turker, Hakan, A.G. Eversole and D.E. Brune, Effects of Temperature and Phytoplankton Concentration on Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, Filtration Rate, Aquaculture Res. 34: 453-459, 2003.
Brune, D.E., G. Schwartz, J.A. Collier, A.G. Eversole, and T.E. Schwedler, Partitioned Aquaculture Systems, Chapter 20 in Biology and Culture of Channel Catfish, C. Tuckers and J. Hargreaves, Editors, In press, 2004.
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