Dr. Gang Chen, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, is the principal investigator for the $1.18 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture. He completed his MS in environmental engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology in 1994, his ME in agricultural and biological engineering at Cornell University in 1998, and his PhD in civil engineering at the University of Oklahoma in 2002. His principal research interests are in the areas of watershed management, land use change and climate change, water flow and physicochemical reactions in porous media, nutrient cycling, and landfill leachate management. His research is focused on watershed modeling, hydrologic and water flow modeling, the fate and transport of non-point source agricultural pollutants, system design, and integrated approaches to workable and cost-effective solutions.