1 Dr. Charles Hagedorn - Department of Crop & Soil Environmental ...

Dr. Charles HagedornProfessor of Environmental MicrobiologyDepartment of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech (VPI & SU)EducationPh.D. Degree, Microbiology, Iowa State University, 1974M.S. Degree, Microbiology, Iowa State University, 1972B.S. Degree, Bacteriology, Kansas State University, 1970Professional ExperienceProfessor of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, VPI & SU, Blacksburg, VA. 1987 – present.Manager, Crop Biotechnology Program, Allied-Signal Corporation, Syracuse, NY, 1983-87.Associate Professor of Agronomy, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, 1979-83.Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 1974-79.Honors and AwardsDistinguished Service Award, USDA, for service to the National Biological Impact Assessment Program(NBIAP).Outstanding Service Award, U.S. EPA, for service on the Biotechnology Science Advisory Committee(BSAC).Distinguished Service Award, American Society for Microbiology, for service on Editorial Board ofApplied and Environmental Microbiology.Distinguished Service Award, Maryland Biotechnology Institute, University of Maryland, for service inthe short course: Dealing with Field Test Regulations and Public Acceptance of GeneticEngineering.Outstanding Service Award, National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA), for serviceon the Board of Directors.Research and Professional ExperienceMy research and scientific expertise has been recognized by awards of 71 state, private, and federalcompetitive research grants; publication of 137 refereed journal articles; 18 invited review articles; 13invited book chapters; co-editor of one book; 73 invited presentations at international, national, and stateconferences; 22 invited memberships on proposal review panels; 12 refereed bulletins; and 142 abstractsand presentation papers. Fourteen Ph.D. and twenty-one M.S. students have completed degrees under mydirection and I have generated in excess of $4,735,000 in external grants and contracts to support myenvironmental microbiology program, including public health, microbial pathogens in the environment,waste management, the impact of releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment, anddetermining sources of fecal pollution in water.Over the past sixteen years, my research has focused on the development of microbial sourcetracking methods and protocols, and deployed these to determine sources of fecal pollution in 40+projects in Virginia and 14 in other states, plus projects in Canada, Puerto Rico, Spain, and China.TeachingCSES, BIOL, CEE 4164: Environmental Microbiology (senior/graduate level course).NSF Research Experience Undergraduate (REU): Research Opportunities in Interdisciplinary WatershedSciences and Engineering. $300,000, 2007-2009. http://www.vwrrc.vt.edu/nsf_reu.html; Renewed2011-2014.OutreachDeveloped and presented workshops on source tracking sponsored by the American Society forMicrobiology, held in conjunction with the ASM annual conference (2004-2006). Presented annual1

summer workshops on “How to Do Source Tracking” at Virginia Tech (2001-2009). Participantaffiliations included: federal agencies (USGS and USEPA), state agencies (environmental regulatoryagencies in Va, Md, NC, District of Columbia, and WVa) graduate institutions (Purdue University-Ft.Wayne, Vanderbilt University, Cornell University, Univ. of Georgia, Auburn University, Cornell,Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, North Carolina State), community colleges (El Paso Community College,Tx, Western Virginia Community College, Va), and 4-year undergraduate institutions (Roanoke Collegeand Ferrum College, both in Va, and Marshall University, WVa), plus several private sector companies.Also presented four similar workshops recently in China (see following section). Other source trackingworkshops presented include Canada (Environment Canada, 2004 and 2005), Water EnvironmentResearch Foundation conference (2005), EPA Region 3 workshop (2005) and the 4 th National Conferenceon Science Policy (2004).Selected Invited Presentations Relevant to the Proposed Project (73 total)Experts Scientific Workshop on Critical Research Needs for the Development of New or RevisedRecreational 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 trackingmethods. 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. 17-19 October Workshop.Hagedorn, C. 2007. Bacterial source tracking as an approach to identifying sources of fecal pollution inwater. Invited Seminar. Changiang Water Resources Commission, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P.R.China. 22-25 October Workshop.Hagedorn, C. 2007. Development of fluorometry to detect optical brighteners as a chemical sourcetracking method. Invited Seminar. Institute of Hydroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan,Hubei Province, P.R. China. 26-28 October Workshop.Hagedorn, C., 2008. Development of a Microbial Source Tracking Research Program on China's YangtzeRiver, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Boston, MA, 2 June.Hagedorn, C. (organizer), 2008. New Perspectives on Microbial Source Tracking: Putting the Scienceinto Practice. Half-day symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology,Boston, MA, 2 June.Hagedorn, C. 2008. Evaluation of Microbial Source Tracking Methodologies and Application to theYangtze River. Jiangsu Provencial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, P.R. China.8-10 May Workshop.Hagedorn C. 2009. Current and Future Trends in Fecal Source Tracking. Keynote presentation at theInternational Symposium on Science, Technology, and Policy for Water Pollution at WatershedScale, Hangzhou, China.Publications over the past 4 years - BooksGraves A., and C. Hagedorn. 2009. Antibiotic Resistance as a Method for Determining Sources of FecalPollution in Water. (Chapter 12, pp.283-312) In: Antibiotic Resistance: Causes and Risk Factors,Mechanisms and Alternatives. Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York.Hagedorn, Charles, Anicet R. Blanch, and Valerie J. Harwood (Eds). 2011. Microbial Source Tracking:Methods, Applications, and Case Studies. ISBN: 978-1-4419-9386-1. Springer, New York.2

Hagedorn C., and S. Weisberg. 2011. Chemical Source Tracking Methods (Chapter 8, pp.189-206) In:Microbial Source Tracking: Methods, Applications and Case Studies. ISBN: 978-1-4419-9386-1.Charles Hagedorn, Anicet R. Blanch, and Valerie J. Harwood, Eds. Springer, New York.Hagedorn, C.E., J. E. Lepo, K. N. Hellein, A. Ajidahun, L. Xinqiang, H. Li. 2011. Microbial SourceTracking in Developing Nations (Chapter 22, pp.515-544) In: Microbial Source Tracking: Methods,Applications and Case Studies. ISBN: 978-1-4419-9386-1. Charles Hagedorn, Anicet R. Blanch, andValerie J. Harwood, Eds. Springer, New York.Peer-Reviewed Journals (137 total)Dickerson, J.W. Jr., C. Hagedorn, and A. Hassall. 2007. Detection and remediation of human-originpollution at two public beaches in Virginia using multiple source tracking methods. Water Res.41:3758-3770.Graves, A.K., C. Hagedorn, A. Brooks, R.L. Hagedorn, and E. Martin. 2007. Microbial source tracking ina rural watershed dominated by cattle. Water Res. 41:3729-3739.Dickerson, J.W. Jr., J.B. Crozier, C. Hagedorn and A. Hassall. 2007. Assessment of the 16S-23S rDNAintergenic spacer region in Enterococcus spp. for microbial source tracking. J. Environ. Qual.36:1661-1669.Hassan, G., R.B. Reneau, Jr., and C. Hagedorn. 2008. On-site waste treatment and disposal by sequencingbatch reactor-drip irrigation: Effluent distribution and solute transport. Comm. in Soil Sci. and PlantAnal. 39:141-157.Smith, Ryan C., and Charles Hagedorn. 2008. Antibiotic resistance patterns in Escherichia coli todifferentiate between human and non-human sources. J. Environ. Detection 1:51-57.Hassan, G., R.B. Reneau, Jr., and C. Hagedorn. 2008. Modeling effluent distribution and nitrate transportthrough an on-site wastewater system. J. Environ. Qual. 37:1937-1948.Hagedorn, C., and S.B. Weisberg. 2009. Development of chemical-based fecal source tracking methods.Rev. Environ. Sci. Bio/Technol. 8:275-287.Szekely B., J. Singh, T. Marsh, C. Hagedorn, W. Huckle, S. Werre, T. Kaur. Fecal bacterial diversity ofhuman-habituated wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Mahale Mountains NationalPark, Western Tanzania. 2010. Amer. J. of Primatology. 72:566-574.Hassan G., R. Reneau, C. Hagedorn. 2010. Solute transport dynamics where highly treated effluent isapplied to soil at varying rates and dosing frequencies. J. Soil Science. 175:278-292.Graves, A.K. and C. Hagedorn. 2010. Identifying sources of fecal pollution in water with antibioticresistance patterns. Environ. Res. J. 5(6):749-774.Habersack, Mathew J., Theo A. Dillaha and Charles Hagedorn. 2011. Common snapping turtles(Chelydra serpentina) as a source of fecal indicator bacteria in freshwater systems. J. of the Amer.Water Res. Assoc. In press.Hagedorn C., L. Xinqiang. Current and future trends in fecal source tracking and deployment in the LakeTaihu region of China. 2011. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. Special edition devoted to papersfrom an international watershed conference in Hangzhou, China. In press.3