Brief Biography

Dr. CHARLES HAGEDORN III





EDUCATION

Ph.D. Degree in Microbiology, Iowa State University, 1974
M.S. Degree in Microbiology, Iowa State University, 1972
B.S. Degree in Bacteriology, Kansas State University, 1970

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences (CSES), VPI & SU, Blacksburg, VA (since 1986)
Manager, Crop Biotechnology Program, Allied-Signal Corporation, Syracuse, NY
Associate Professor of Agronomy, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

HONORS RECEIVED

Distinguished Service Award, U.S. Department of Agriculture, for service to the National Biological Impact Assessment Program.

Certificate of Continuing Education, Board of Education and Training, American Society for Microbiology, for participating as an instructor in the workshop "Aquatic Viral Technology."

Outstanding Service Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for service on the Biotechnology Science Advisory Committee.

Distinguished Service Award, American Society for Microbiology, for service on the editorial board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Distinguished Service Award, Maryland Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland, for service in the short course: Dealing with Field Test Regulations and Public Acceptance of Genetic Engineering.

Commitment of Service Award, National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA), for service on the Board of Directors.

QUALIFICATIONS

My research and scientific expertise has been recognized by awards of 72 state, private, and federal competitive research grants; publication of 117 refereed journal articles; 18 invited review articles; 7 invited book chapters; co-editor of one book; 54 invited presentations at international, national, and state conferences; 23 invited memberships on proposal review panels; 12 refereed bulletins; and 182 abstracts and presentation papers. Fourteen Ph.D. and twenty-one M.S. students have completed degrees under my direction and I have generated in excess of $5,100,000 in external grants and contracts to support my research program that covers environmental microbiology, including public health, microbial pathogens in the environment, waste management, the impact of releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment, and determining sources of fecal pollution in water. Over the past decade, I have been involved in the development of microbial source tracking methods, and have deployed these methods to determine sources of fecal pollution in 50+ projects in Virginia, 14 in other states, and 5 in other countries, including most recently the Yangtze River in China. My research program on source tracking has been supported by competitive awards from USDA-NRI, EPA, NOAA, and USGS.

TEACHING

CSES - 4164, Environmental Microbiology
(Cross-listed with Biology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Science)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (117 Total)

Hagedorn. C., S. A. Robinson, J. R. Filtz, S. M. Grubbs, T. A. Angier, and R. B. Reneau, Jr. 1999. Determining sources of fecal pollution in a rural Virginia watershed with antibiotic resistance patterns in the fecal streptococci. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:5522-5531.

Huang, J., R. B. Reneau, Jr., and C. Hagedorn. 2000. Nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands employed to treat domestic wastewater. Water Research 34:2582-2588.

Graves, A. K., C. Hagedorn, A. Teetor, M. Mahal, A. M. Booth, R. B. Reneau, Jr. 2002. Determining sources of fecal pollution in water for a rural Virginia watershed. J. Environ. Qual. 31:1300-1308.

Hagedorn, C., J. B. Crozier, K. A. Mentz, A. M. Booth, A. K. Graves, N. J. Nelson, and R. B. Reneau, Jr. 2003. Carbon source utilization profiles as a method to identify sources of fecal pollution in water. J. Appl. Microbiol. 94:1-8.

Bowman, A. M., C. Hagedorn, A. K. Graves, S. C. Hagedorn, and K. H. Mentz. 2003. Sources of fecal pollution in Virginia?s Blackwater River. J. Environ. Engineering 129:547-552.

Harwood, V. J., B. Wiggins, C. Hagedorn, R. D. Ellender, J. Gooch, J. Kern, M. Samadpour, A. H. Chapman and B. J. Robinson. 2003. Phenotypic library-based microbial source tracking methods: Efficacy in the California collaborative study. J. Water & Health 01:153-156.

Stoeckel, D.M., Mathes, M.V., Hyer, K.E., Hagedorn, C., Kator, H., Lukasik, J., O'Brien, T., Fenger, T.W., Samadpour, M., Strickler, K.M., and Wiggins, B.A., 2004, Comparison of seven protocols to identify fecal contamination sources using Escherichia coli. Environmental Science and Technology 38 (22):6109-6117.

Hassan G., R. Reneau, C. Hagedorn and M. Saluta. 2005. Modeling water flow behavior where highly treated effluent is applied to soil at varying rates and dosing frequencies. Soil Science 170(9): 692-706.

Soupir M., S. Mostaghimi, G. Yagow, C. Hagedorn and D. Vaughan. 2005. Release and transport of bacteria from livestock manure applied to pasturelands. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 169(1-4). URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-005-1808-2.

Dickerson, J.W. Jr., C. Hagedorn, and A. Hassall. 2007. Detection and remediation of human-origin pollution at two public beaches in Virginia using multiple source tracking methods. Water Research 41:3758-3770.

Graves, A.K., C. Hagedorn, A. Brooks, R.L. Hagedorn, and E. Martin. 2007. Microbial source tracking in a rural watershed dominated by cattle. Water Research 41:3729-3739.

Hartel, Peter G., Charles Hagedorn, Jennifer L. McDonald, Jared A. Fisher, Michael A. Saluta, Jerold W. Dickerson Jr., Lisa C. Gentit, Steven L. Smith, Nehru S. Mantripragada, Kerry J. Ritter, and Carolyn N. Belcher. 2007. Exposing water samples to ultraviolet light improves fluorometry for detecting human fecal contamination. Water Research 41:3629-3642.

Dickerson, J.W. Jr., J.B. Crozier, C. Hagedorn and A. Hassall. 2007. Assessment of the 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacer region in Enterococcus spp. for microbial source tracking. Journal of Environmental Quality 36:1661-1669.

Hassan, G., R. B. Reneau, Jr., and C. Hagedorn. 2007. On-site waste treatment and disposal by sequencing batch reactor-drip irrigation: Effluent distribution and solute transport. In Press: Communications in Soil Science.

SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS (46 total)

Deploying Microbial Source Tracking in Complex Urban Watersheds. 2005. Seminar was hosted by the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, and was designed for municipal officials in CO, WY, and UT.

Current Status and Future Directions in Microbial Source Tracking. 2005. Keynote Speaker. U.S. EPA Region 6 Bacterial Source Tracking Conference, Dallas, TX.

Application of Multiple Methods to Identify, Confirm, and Remediate Sources of Fecal Pollution in Water. 2005. Keynote Speaker. Microbial Source Tracking Methodology Conference, sponsored by the Water Environment Research Foundation, San Antonio, TX.

Identifying, Confirming, and Mitigating Sources of Fecal Pollution in Water. 2005. Keynote Speaker. Linking Water Science to Policy Conference, Toronto, Canada. Sponsored by the Canadian Ministry on the Environment.

Optical Brighteners and Fluorometry: Use and Application in Detection of Pollution Sources. 2005. Keynote Speaker. Annual Interstate Seafood Symposium, Ocean City, MD.

Deployment of Source Tracking Technology to Locate Sources of Fecal Pollution in Urban Waters. 2005. Keynote Speaker. Water QUESt Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

An Evaluation of Beach Remediation in Virginia Using Four Bacterial Source Tracking Methods. 2006. National Beaches Conference, Niagara Falls, NY.

The Need for Rapid Detection of Pollution and Improved Advisories at U.S. Beaches. 2006. Fourth National Conference on Science, Stewardship, and Sustainability, Tallahassee, FL. Sponsored by NOAA's Educational Partnership Program.

Microbial Source Tracking. In Pathogen Research Symposium: Pathways and Monitoring in Natural and Engineered Systems. 2006. Symposium sponsored by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Blacksburg, VA, VWRRC Special Report SR32-2006.

Development of Fluorometry to Detect Optical Brighteners as a Surrogate for Human-Origin Pollution in Water. 2006. Microbial Source Tracking in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Health and Environmental Management. Biloxi, MS. Sponsored by EPA and NOAA.

Experts Scientific Workshop on Critical Research Needs for the Development of New or Revised Recreational Water Quality Criteria. 2007. Airlie, VA. Sponsored by EPA's Office of Water, 823-R-07-006.

Hagedorn, C. 2007. An evaluation of beach remediation in Virginia using four microbial source tracking methods. Invited Plenary Presentation, XXI Congreso Nacional de Microbiologia, Sevilla, Espana, 17-20 septiembre. (paper S15.1.)

Hagedorn, C. 2007. Using source tracking as an approach to watershed restoration. Invited Seminar. Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China. 17 October.

Hagedorn, C. 2007. Bacterial source tracking as an approach to identifying sources of fecal pollution in water. Invited Seminar. Changiang Water Resources Commission, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China. 22 October.

Hagedorn, C. 2007. Development of fluorometry to detect optical brighteners as a chemical source tracking method. Invited Seminar. Institute of Hydroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R. China. 26 October.

RADIO AND NEWSPAPER (Examples)

August 2005. "Scat Squad: Finding Pollution's Causes." Story aired on National Public Radio (NPR), "All Things Considered," August 12, 2005. Washington, D.C.

September, 2006. "Wildlife Waste is Major Water Polluter, Studies Say." Washington Post, Friday, Sept. 29. Page A01 (front page). With David Fahrenthold, Science Reporter.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in Impaired Waters in Prince William County, Virginia.

Microbial Source Tracking and Virginia?s Beach Monitoring Program.

Transport of Viruses and Bacteria From Onsite Systems Through Soils.

Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in Impaired Waters in Crooked Run and Willow Brook, Warren and Clarke Counties, Virginia.

Evaluating the Extent of Pollution-Induced Antibiotic Resistance in Environmental Bacterial Strains.

Research Opportunities in Interdisciplinary Watershed Sciences and Engineering (National Science Foundation).

Water Quality Monitoring Plan for Sewer Basins in the Anacostia River Watershed.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Developed the first Microbial Source Tracking website on the internet in 1992, and co-developed (with S. Allender-Hagedorn, founding editor) Environmental Detection News, an international peer-reviewed newsletter devoted to all aspects of source tracking and detection of microbes in the environment. The newsletter is currently being converted to an on-line journal, issue 1 to be published October 2007.

State-wide responsibility for leadership in water quality. For an example, see CSES News. Activities include presentations to citizen groups and organizations, state agencies, and municipalities, to explain the science and implications of source tracking as well as the federal total maximum daily load (TMDL) program, how it is being implemented in Virginia, and the impacts it will have on communities.

PATENTS

Water Sample Viral Contamination Detection System. U.S. Patent No. 5,527,667, Issued 06/18/96.



Environmental Microbiology Homepage. Personal Homepage.

Microbial Source Tracking Homepage.