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Biomass
Biomass, in the energy production industry, refers to living and recently dead biological material which can be used as fuel or for industrial production. Most commonly, biomass refers to plant matter grown for use as biofuel, but it also includes plant or animal matter used for production of fibres, chemicals or heat. Biomass may also include biodegradable wastes that can be burnt as fuel. It excludes organic material which has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum.
Sandra Austin-Phillips
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biotechnology Center
saustinp@facstaff.wisc.edu
Interests: development transgenic plants that express cellulases and other value-added enzymes that can facilitate the conversion of cellulosic biomass.
Dean Current
University of Minnesota
Department of Forest Resources
curre002@umn.edu
Interests: sustainable woody biomass harvest guidelines.
Otto Doering
Purdue University
Department of Ag Economics and Public Policy Specialist
doering@purdue.edu
Interests: utilizing biomass for electircity generation, adapting biomass to current conventional energy systems.
Joseph Fiksel
Ohio State University
College of Engineering, Co-director Center for Resilience
fiksel.2@osu.edu
Interests: comparative assessment of the sustainability and resilience of energy systems, ranging from traditional fossil fuel combustion to alternative energy sources such as biomass.
Lee Frelich
University of Minnesota
Department of Forest Resources
freli001@umn.edu
Interests: sustainable woody biomass (forest) harvest guidelines.
Klein E. Ileleji
Purdue University
Department of Ag & Bio Engineering
ileleji@purdue.edu
Interests: the production of energy crops, new technology development, biomass characterization, and production, densification and post-harvest technologies for biomass utilization.
Khandakar R. Islam
Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center
islam.27@osu.edu
Interests: establishment and suitability of bioenergy crops, fast growth vs. slow growth, annual and perennial: versatile bioenergy crop, growth and biomass produciton, biology of bioenergy crops, economis and production performance of bioenergy crops.
Gregg Johnson
University of Minnesota
Southern Research and Outreach Center (Waseca)
johns510@umn.edu
Interests: growing biomass (agricultural plants) for energy production.
Nicholas Jordan
University of Minnesota
Departmtne of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
jorda0202@umn.edu
interests: sutainable systems for biomass energy production.
James L. Julson
South Dakota State University
Department of Ag/Biosys Engineering
james.julson@sdstate.edu
Interests: pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for conversion, alternate feedstocks for ethanol and biofuels production.
Harold Keener
Ohio State University
Department of Agricultural Engineering
keener.3@osu.edu
Interests: biomass for energy.
Khanal Samir Kumar
Iowa State University
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
samirk@iastate.edu
Interests: bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, biomethane and fungal biomass/fungal-drived products from low-cost feedstock, and biohydrogen and butanol from biomass-derived sugars, improving bioethanol production from cellulosic biomass, corn and cassava.
Kenneth Moore
Iowa State University
Department of Agronomy
kjmoore@iastate.edu
Interests: advanced cropping systems for biomass and other alternative crops, biomass storage and pretreatment strategies, evaluation and characterization of potential biofeedstock materials.
Vance Morey
University of Minnesota
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
rvmorey@umn.edu
Interests: biomass utilization for energy.
Peter Reich
University of Minnesota
Department of Forest Resources
preich@umn.edu
Interests: effect of CO2 changes on biomass growth.
Craig Sheaffer
University of Minnesota
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
sheaf001@umn.edu
Interests: growing biomass for energy production.
Peter Tiffin
University of Minnesota
Departmtne of Plant Biology
ptiffin@umn.edu
Interests: CO2 changes on biomass growth effect.
K.C. Ting
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
kcting@uiuc.edu
Interests: alternative energy, decision support, engineering solution for biomass feedstock production.
Kathleen Tweeten
North Dakota State University
Director of NDSU Extension Center for Community Vitality
kathleen.tweeten@ndsu.edu
Interests: North Dakota Biomass Energy Task Force.
Indrek S. Wichman
Department of Mechanical Engineering
wichman@egr.msu.edu
Interests: biomass combustion and gasification, specifically as it relates to the burning of biomass in combustors and furnaces.
Donald Wyse
University of Minnesota
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
wysex001@umn.edu
Interests: growing biomass for energy production.
