J. Randall Etheridge

Term: 2018 - 2021

Action Team Assignments: Water Quality Improvements, Ecological Flows

Monitoring and Assessment Team Assignment: Water Resources

STAC Member Since: January 2017

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Department of Engineering, Center for Sustainability

Organization: East Carolina University

Education: PhD Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University (2013) Masters of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University (2010) BS Biological Engineering, North Carolina State University (2008)

Primary Focus Area: Water resources engineering

Secondary Focus Area(s): Ecological engineering, agricultural engineering, water management, ecosystem restoration

Career Experiences: Randall Etheridge has joint faculty appointments in the Department of Engineering and Center for Sustainability at East Carolina University. Etheridge is an ecological engineer with most of his experience in coastal areas. His research focuses on the use of natural biogeochemical processes to reduce the impact of human actions on coastal waters. He is particularly interested in how changes in agricultural water management strategies can be used to improve water quality and the use of ecosystem restoration to reduce eutrophication. Etheridge’s lab uses optical instruments to measure nutrient concentrations multiple times per hour in dynamic coastal systems to further improve our knowledge of the factors that influence nutrient fluxes. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and other funding sources.