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Steven C. McCutcheon
Biographical Information
Name: Steven C. McCutcheonTitle: Research Environmental Engineer
Education:
| Degree | University | Major and Minor Fields | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Vanderbilt UniversityHydraulics and Water Resources | 1977-1979||
| Nashville, Tennessee | Mathematics and Economics | ||
| M.S. | Vanderbilt University | Environmental and Water | 1975-1977 |
| Nashville, Tennessee | Resources Engineering | ||
| B.C.E. | Auburn University | Civil Engineering | 1974-1975 |
| (with honor) Auburn, Alabama | (water resources option) |
Expertise/Research Interestes:
! Phytoremediation and applications of plant biochemistry
! Ecological Engineering
! Zero-valent metal reactions with chlorinate solvents, dyes, and pesticides
! Watershed and fishery habitat restoration
! Stream temperature modeling
! Performance monitoring to establish engineering and economic feasibility
of innovative hazardous waste clean up technologies
! Sorption kinetics
! Fate and transport models for metals and organic contaminants in
surface waters and wetlands
! Sediment criteria and waste load allocation procedures for sorbed
contaminants
! Beach hydraulics and oil spill modeling in coastal and inland waters
! Benthic exchange and biogeochemical cycles in wetlands and surface
waters
! Boundary roughness, flow resistance, and stream geomorphology
! Assessment of human and ecological risk due to contaminant exposure
in surface waters
! Watershed modeling
! Hydrodynamics and water quality of streams, lakes, estuaries, and
wetlands (including modeling and sampling criteria)
! Stratified flow (development of models and experimental investigation)
! Mudflow and sediment transport (including fine and cohesive sediment)
! Surface water effects of hazardous waste landfills (including oily
wastes)
! Waste load allocation modeling for streams, lakes and estuaries
! Lead fate and transport in streams
Professional Activities:
Research Environmental Engineer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
National 1986-
Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecosystems Research Division, Processes
and present
Modeling Branch [formerly Environmental Research Laboratory, Assessment
Branch
(1986 to 1995) and Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (1988 to
1993)], Athens, Georgia:
? Leader in the fields of phytoremediation and ecological engineering
? Discovered plants, including crops, that accumulate and degrade perchlorate
from solid rocket fuel and investigated source of perchlorate in fertilize
? Demonstration of innovative treatment technology, including use of
plant enzymes and zero-valent metals to clean up hazardous waste sites
? Leader in watershed management and adapting classified remote sensing
capabilities for watershed and salmon fisheries restoration in the U.S.
Pacific Northwest
? Development of new watershed modeling approaches to derive the first,
total maximum load calculation for stream temperature regulation and sedimentation
related to forestry practices (Grande Ronde basin in eastern Oregon)
? Sediment yield and woody debris projections for prioritizing watershed
restoration (Skagit River Basin in northwestern Washington)
? Advising on linkage between land use, water quality, and estuarine
ecosystems (Willapa Basin in southwestern Washington)
? Investigation of in situ permeable reductive iron walls and gates
to remediate chlorinated solvents in groundwater, pesticides in soils,
and dyes in effluents
? Chair of the EPA peer review panel on relationship between stream
flow, water temperature, and endangered sandhill crane habitat in the Big
Bend Region of the Platte River in Nebraska for Office of Federal Activities
involving re-licensing of Kingsley and North Platte/Keystone Diversion
dams by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
? Development and Linkage of hydrodynamics, sediment, water-quality
models, and food chain models
? Oil spill modeling and beach hydraulics investigations in Prince
William Sound, Alaska
? Investigation of metam-sodium chemical spill in Sacramento River,
California
? Investigation of the release of toxic chemicals from dredging and
confined disposal facilities
? Writing and developing estuary waste load allocation guidance
? Review and development of stream waste load allocation guidance
? Criteria for stream protection from oily wastes associated with hazardous
waste landfills and effluents
? Development of sediment quality criteria and supporting waste load
allocation modeling
? Benthic exchange model development
? Development of bioaccumulation models
? Modeling to support Superfund human and ecological risk assessments
(arsenic fate and transport at the Vineland Superfund site in New Jersey
and arsenic and heavy metal exposure at Milltown Reservoir and other Clark
Fork River Superfund sites in Montana)
? Advisor to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (reviewed
Han River water quality studies prior to 1988 Olympics and other basin
studies)
? Advisor to Chinese Research Academy for Environmental Sciences, Beijing,
Peoples Rep. China;
? Water quality investigation of Zhenjiang Harbor with Nanjing University,
Peoples Rep. of China;
? Water quality investigation of Lake Bosten with Institute of Environmental
Protection, Xinjiang Province, Peoples Republic of China
? Laboratory liaison with the U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program
Office
? Hazard assessments for contaminated sediments in Great Lakes Areas
of Concern (EPA Region 5 Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments
Program)
? Lead contamination in streams and sediments
? OSHA approved training to enter hazardous waste sites
Clemson University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson, South Carolina
? Adjunct or Research Assistant Professor 1990 to 1997
? Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) 1991 to 1992
? PI, Charleston Harbor Project: linking water quality and hydrodynamic 1992 to 1997
models, wetting and drying, nonpoint source pollution from wetlands, design
of detention ponds, vegetative filter strips and other best management practices
Adjunct Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of
Georgia, Athens 1993 to
? Member of the Graduate Faculty (1995 to 2002)
? Co-Research Advisor, David Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, stream restoration
in Oregon
Affiliate, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens 1989 to Present
? NSF Proposal: Science & Technology Center for Integrated Ecosystems Studies (1990)
? Ad Hoc Advisor, Masters of Ecology (1994-95)
? Contributor to seminar series (1999)
Environmental Ethics Faculty, University of Georgia, Athens 1995 to Present
Expert witness and consultant, April 1983 flooding of Lower Coast Algiers,
New
Orleans, Louisiana, State Superior Court, Law Firm of Uddo and Milazzo
(1992, 1997)
Editor and reviewer, McGraw-Hill Book Co., CRC Press, Wiley, National
Science 1980 to
Foundation, various Federal and State Agencies, American Society Civil
Engineers present
(ASCE) ASCE Press, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Journal
of Hydraulic Engineering, American Academy of Environmental Engineers,
Elsevier Science, Ecological Engineering B The Journal of Ecotechnology,
American Water Resources Association Bulletin, Water Resources Research,
Journal of Geophysical Reviews, Environmental Science and Technology, Ground
Water Modeling and Remediation, Water Research (International Association
on Water Quality), Journal of Phytoremediation, Ground Water Monitoring
and Remediation, Georgia Water Resources Research Institute, South Carolina
Water Resources Research Institute, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium
and Nevada EPSCoR.
? Reviewed the definitive text, Open Channel Hydraulics by R.H. French
for McGraw-Hill (1984)
? U.S. EPA Review Panel: Rates, Constants, and Kinetics Formula-tions
in Surface Water Quality Modeling, West Lafayette, CA, 1984 (environment
scientists and engineers from universities, consulting, and government
reviewed the second edition of this widely used guidance manual; I was
the sole representative of the U.S. Geological Survey)
? Editor (1992-1994), Editor Emeritus (1994-1996), Vice-Editor (1990-1992),
and Associate Editor (1986-1990), ASCE, Journal of Environmental Engineering
? Primary reviewer for South Carolina Surface Water Management and
Sediment Reduction Regulations, released June 1992, Land Resources Conservation
Commission, November 1991 (technical expert in negotiations with Home Builders
Association on final language in the regulations)
? Reviewed and edited Quality of Ground Water: Guidelines for Selection
and Application of Frequently Used Models -- A Report on the State-of-the-Art,
monograph by the Committee on Ground Water Quality of the Environmental
Engineering Division of the ASCE (1994)
? Editorial Board, Ecological Engineering -- The Journal of Ecotechnology
(1995-present)
? Editorial Board, Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Practice
Periodical, ASCE (1995-96)
? U.S. EPA Nutrient Strategy, Washington, DC, 1996
? Citizen's guides to (1) Treatment Walls, and (2) Phytoremediation,
U.S. EPA Technology Innovation Office, Washington, DC, August, 1996
? Design guidance book, Chemical Treatment, Am. Academy of Environmental
Engineers,1996-97
? Review of Recent Developments of In Situ Treatment of Metal Contaminated
Soil, U.S. EPA Technology Innovation Office, Report EPA 542-R-97-004 (1997)
? Review of Climate Change Effects on Lake Hydrodynamics and Water
Quality, ASCE Monograph, Water Resource Engineering Division, Executive
Committee, June 1998
? Editorial Board, Ecological Studies, Hazards and Solutions, a series
of books for publication in Russia, 1999-present
? S. A. Ostroumov. Biological effects of surfactants in connection
with the anthropogenic impact on the biosphere. Moscow, MAX Press.
ISBN 5-317-00040-8, vol. 2.
? Review of Electrokinetic and Phytoremediation In Situ Treatment of
Metal Contaminated Soil: State of the Practice, U.S. EPA Technology Innovation
Office, Report EPA 542-R-97-00-XXX (2000)
? Review of Brownfields Technology Primer: Selecting and Using Phytoremediation
for Site Cleanup, U.S. EPA Technology Innovation Office, Report (2000).
? Review of Phytoremediation, Engineering Bulletin, U.S. EPA National
Risk Management Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH (Jan., 2001)
? Review of Proceedings, EPA Phytoremediation State of the Science
Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1-2, 2000, U.S. EPA Technology Innovation
Office, Washington, DC and National Risk Management Laboratory, Cincinnati,
OH (Jan., 2001)
Adjunct Assistant Prof., Department Civil Engineering, Tulane University,
New Orleans, LA 1984 to 1985
? General hydrology course to civil engineers and geologists,
? Guest lecturer, water quality management course in the School of
Public Health
Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Gulf Coast Hydroscience
1977 to1986
Center, National Space Technology Laboratories, Mississippi
? Performed one of the first in-depth peer reviews of seven stream
water quality
models that lead to standardization of modeling practice
?? Research and development of stream water quality models
?? Investigation of mudflows and sediment transport
? Research on stream nitrification, reaeration, biochemical oxygen
demand, and temperature flux
? Development of data bases for testing and review of stream water
quality models
? Investigation of watershed modeling to determine affects of strip
mining
? Taught basic hydraulics at the Denver training facility
? Basic investigation of stratified flows and mixing in open channel
flows, Tennessee District Office, Nashville, (thesis support program research)
Instructor, Fluid Mechanics, Department of Civil Engineering and
1976 to1977
Engineering Science and Research Assistant, Department of Environmental
and
Water Resources Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee:
? Taught fluid mechanics
? Directed field work for one funded project, and
? Field hydrologist for a project to investigate stream water quality
in the Nashville 208 studies
Select Publications:
Books:
McCutcheon, Steve C., Water Quality Modeling: Volume I, River Transport and Surface
Exchange, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1989, 334 p.
McCutcheon, S. C., Martin, J. L. and Barnwell, T. O., Jr., Water Quality,
Chapter 11,
Handbook of Hydrology, David Maidment, Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York,
1993
Martin, J. L. and McCutcheon, S. C., Hydrodynamics and Transport for
Water Quality
Modeling, Lewis Publishers, New York, NY, 1999.
Papers
Wise, W. R., Guven, O., Molz, F. J. and McCutcheon, S. C., Estimating Advective Nutrient
Retention Time in a High-Permeability, Oil-Fouled Beach: Kittiwake Beach, Alaska,
Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 120(6), 1994,
1361-1379.
Schnoor, J. L., Licht, L. A., McCutcheon, S. C., Wolfe, N. L., and Carreira,
L. H.,
Phytoremediation of organic and nutrient contaminants,
ES&T, American Chemical Society,
29(7), Feature Article, July 1995, cover and
pp. 318A-323A.
Gu, R., McCutcheon, S. C., and Wang, P. F., Modeling Reservoir Density
Underflow and
Interflow from a Chemical Spill in a River,
Water Resources Research, 32(3),1996.
Medina, V. F. and S. C. McCutcheon, Phytoremediation: modeling
removal of TNT and its
breakdown products, Remediation, 6(4), 31-45,1996.
Chen, Y. D., R. F. Carsel, S. C. McCutcheon and W. L. Nutter. 1998.
Stream Temperature
Simulation of Forested Riparian Areas: I.
Watershed-Scale Model Development, American
Society of Civil Engineers, Journal
of Environmental Engineering, 124(4).
Chen, Y. D., S. C. McCutcheon, Norton, D. J. and Nutter, W. L. 1998.
Stream Temperature
Simulation of Forested Riparian Areas: II.
Model Application, American Society of Civil
Engineers, Journal of Environmental
Engineering, 124(4).
Rivera, R., V. F. Medina, S. L. Larson, and S. C. McCutcheon, Phytotreatment
of TNT-
contaminated ground water, Journal of Soil
Contamination, 7(4), 511-529
McCutcheon, S. C., 1998, Phytoremediation: applications and limitations,
Plant
Biotechnology Institute Bulletin, National
Research Council of Canada, Sept.
McCutcheon, S. C. and Wolfe, N. L. 1998, Biochemical approaches --
Phytoremediation: the
vital role of biochemistry, Plant Biotechnology
Institute Bulletin, National Research Council
of Canada, Sept.
S. Susarla, Bacchus, S.T., and McCutcheon, S.C. 1999. Phytotransformation
of perchlorate
and identification of metabolic products in
Myriophyllum aquaticum. International Journal
of Phytoremediation, Volume 1, 97 - 107.
Susarla, S., Collette, T.M., Garrison, A. W., Wolfe, N.L. Wayne, and
McCutcheon, S.C.
1999. Perchlorate identification in
fertilizers, Environmental Science and Technology,
Volume 33, pp. .
Nzengung, V. A., Wolfe, N. L., Rennels, D. E. and McCutcheon,
S. C., 1999, Freshwater
algae and aquatic plant mediated transformation
of halogenated organic compounds,
Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology.