Ecosystems Research Division

Biographical Information

Name: Steven C. McCutcheon
Title: Research Environmental Engineer

Education:

Vanderbilt University1977-1979

Degree	University	Major and Minor Fields	Years
Ph.D.	Hydraulics and Water Resources
	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.