BIO: Dr. Ronald F. Turco is a Professor in the Department of Agronomy, and Director of the Indiana Water Resources Research Center. He has B.S. degrees from the University of Idaho in Bacteriology and Soil Science and a Ph. D. from Washington State University in Soil Microbiology. His research has concentrated on understanding how the behavior of environmental microorganism and the processes they control, is influenced by human activity. Currently his program is divided across four areas: understanding the fate of pathogens in soil, water and the plant system and the role these processes play in food contamination, developing a better predictive capacity to understand the environmental fate of manufactured nano materials (fullerenes, single wall carbon nanotubes and nanometals) in soil and water, defining the consequences of using our soils resources for biofuel production and a long-term interest in fate and degradation of organic materials introduced to soils. He has authored many articles and reports and has delivered numerous invited and volunteered presentations. Dr. Turco teaches two graduate level courses: Soil Microbiology and a course titled Biotransformation of Anthropogenic Molecules. He also teaches an undergraduate course on Soil Ecology.