Tom Purucker received his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in
2006 from the University of Tennessee. He is a post-doctoral ecologist
for the EPA in the Ecosystems Research Division of the National Exposure
Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia and is also an adjunct faculty
member at Gainesville State College. Particular areas of interest
include spatial statistical applications to environmental contamination
problems, exposure assessment development, fate and transport of
contaminants, ecological population models, and applications of
uncertainty analysis to these areas in a decision-making context.