James H. Perdue |
| Name: |
James H. Perdue |
| Title: |
Senior Biological Scientist |
| Unit: |
Center for Forest Disturbance Science (4156)
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| Phone: |
865-946-1123
865-414-8737 - Cell |
| Fax: |
706-559-4317 - Unit Fax
865-946-0755 - Employee Fax |
| E-Mail: |
jperdue@fs.fed.us |
Location Information |
Mailing
Address: |
USDA-Forest Service
University of Tennessee
Office of Bioenergy Programs
Room 112
2506 Jacob Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4570 |
Shipping
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Room 112
2506 Jacob Drive
Knoxville TN 37996-4570 |
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Research Information |
Education: |
A native of Newton, AL, Jim earned the following degrees:
- M.S., Natural Resource Policy & Planning, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 1978
- B.S., Forest Management, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 1971
- A.S., Biological Science, Wallace Community College, Dothan, AL, 1968
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Current Research: |
Jim is a senior biological scientist knowledgeable in sustaining nature’s benefits from working farms, ranches and forests. His career has taken him across the country leading complex projects in natural resource risk management and policy; financial and resource evaluation; organizational re-engineering and research. He brings a wide variety of public-private partnership experience at the Federal and State levels including considerable economic and business development experience.
His research on innovative decision support tools for the biobased economy emphasizes agricultural and forest biomass production and bioenergy market organization to achieve not only economic prosperity, but also environmental benefits.
His focus is to improve feasibility metrics and predict how a biobased economy may change the technology, management, markets, financial and educational skills necessary to be successful in the business of agriculture and forestry.
He has built synergistic relationships and research capacity working with a diverse cross-section of regional and national partnerships including academic, government, environmental, industry, business, NGOs, and communities in the South and beyond.
An active leader in biomass and bioenergy partnerships such as:
- USDA & DOE Energy and Woody Biomass Utilization Strategies
- Inter-Agency Woody Biomass Utilization Group
- Southeastern Sun Grant Center at the University of Tennessee
- Office of Bioenergy Programs at the University of Tennessee
- Southeastern Regional Feedstock Partnership
- National Woody Crops Development Team
- Southern Growth Policies Board
- Southern Agriculture & Forest Energy Resources Alliance
- Southern Wood to Energy Research Group
Additional Biographical Information...
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Collaborative Research: |
| Biomass Site Assessment Tools (BioSAT) provide a web-based economic decision-making framework for agricultural and forestry biomass that helps rapidly screen and identify least-cost woody and agricultural biomass collection or processing demand centers by zip-code tabulation area for the 33 Eastern states.
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