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Faculty from a wide array of disciplines are participating on the various projects conducted by the Center for Watershed Excellence. These faculty represent the disciplines of civil engineering, planning and landscape architecture, agricultural and biological engineering and computing as well as forestry and natural resources and environmental toxicology.

A listing of notable faculty by their respective projects is as follows: 

Sand River Ecological Restoration Master Plan

  • Gene W. Eidson, Ph.D.: Dr. Eidson serves as principal investigator of the Sand River project. He is Program Director for restoration ecology within the Clemson University Restoration Institute and is founding director of the Center for Applied Ecology and Center for Watershed Excellence. He was recently named Director of the Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science and serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology. His primary research interests include constructed wetlands for advanced wastewater treatment, floodplain restoration, community-based programming and incorporation of cyberinfrastructure into watershed monitoring on a river basin scale. For more information, connect to his profile.
  • Calvin Sawyer, Ph.D.: Dr. Sawyer is the Associate Director for the Center for Watershed Excellence. He currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Dr. Sawyer has extensive experience in the Clemson University Extension and Public Service Program. Dr. Sawyer's research interests include water quality, stormwater and sediment-bacteria dynamics. In 2003, be began work as the Extension Water Quality Coordinator at Clemson where, among other endeavors, he coordinated development and implementation of numerous water quality programs throughout the state such as Carolina Clear, South Carolina's Certified Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control Inspector (CEPSCI) and Certified Stormwater Plan Reviewer (CSPR).  For more information, connect to his profile.
  • Nadim M. Aziz, Ph.D.: Dr. Aziz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering. His areas of interest include environmental fluid mechanics; sediment transport and scour; contaminated sediments and hydrologic modeling and design. Dr. Aziz is widely published in scientific journals on issues related to stormwater management, environmental contaminants and hydrology. He is a member of both national as well as international societies. For more information, connect to his profile.
  • Victoria Chanse, Ph.D.: Dr. Chanse is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University’s Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture and is affiliated with Clemson University’s Restoration Institute. Her research and professional experiences rest in community participation around the design and planning of watersheds and sustainable open spaces. Current research projects involve civic engagement and service learning in the neighborhoods of North Charleston, South Carolina, and participation in stormwater management in Aiken, South Carolina. She teaches studios and graduate seminars on community participation, ecological design and green urbanism in the Landscape Architecture program. For more information, connect to her profile.


Remote Data Acquisition/Cyberinfrastructure

  • Gene W. Eidson, Ph.D.: Dr. Eidson serves as principal investigator of the Sand River project. He is Program Director for restoration ecology within the Clemson University Restoration Institute and is founding director of the Center for Applied Ecology and Center for Watershed Excellence. He was recently named Director of the Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science and serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology. His primary research interests include constructed wetlands for advanced wastewater treatment, floodplain restoration, community-based programming and incorporation of cyberinfrastructure into watershed monitoring on a river basin scale. For more information, connect to his profile.
  • Calvin Sawyer, Ph.D.: Dr. Sawyer is the Associate Director for the Center for Watershed Excellence. He currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Dr. Sawyer has extensive experience in the Clemson University Extension and Public Service Program. Dr. Sawyer's research interests include water quality, stormwater and sediment-bacteria dynamics. In 2003, be began work as the Extension Water Quality Coordinator at Clemson where, among other endeavors, he coordinated development and implementation of numerous water quality programs throughout the state such as Carolina Clear, South Carolina's Certified Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control Inspector (CEPSCI) and Certified Stormwater Plan Reviewer (CSPR).  For more information, connect to his profile.
  • Jill Gemmill, Ph.D., M.S., MSEE:  Dr. Gemmill is Executive Director of Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration (CITI) at Clemson University and is Research Assistant Professor within the School of Computing. She also holds an appointment at the CU Genomics Institute. Dr. Gemmill has developed collaborative environments for virtual organizations in domains such as social sciences, health sciences, computational science, bioinformatics and ecology. For more information, connect to her profile.
  • Dan Hitchcock, Ph.D., P.E.: Dr. Hitchcock is Assistant Professor for Coastal Water Quality, Vegetative Treatment Systems within the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Hitchcock's research has focused on contaminated groundwater systems and is published in Environmental Geosciences and Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. For more information, connect to his profile.
  • Steven J. Klaine, Ph.D.: Dr. Kaine is Professor of Aquatic Toxicology, Water Quality and Risk Assessment within the Department of Environmental Toxicology. His research addresses the link between land use patterns and water quality. His laboratory has successfully incorporated wetlands, riparian zones and vegetated filter strips into agricultural and urban watersheds to minimize impacts on aquatic systems. For more information, connect to his profile.
  • Christopher J. Post, Ph.D.:  Dr. Post is Assistant Professor of Environmental Information Science within the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. A graduate of Cornell University, his research areas include environmental sensor networks; geographic information systems and remote sensing. Dr. Post is well published on soil analysis, GIS and predictive modeling. He received the 2005 Prince Award for Innovation in Teaching. For more information, connect to his profile.