Jeff Wolt
Professor of Agronomy
Biosafety Institute for
Genetically Modified Agricultural Products
Iowa State University
164 Seed Science Center
Ames, Iowa 50011
515-294-6899
Education
□ 1969-71, Case Western Reserve University, Biology
□ B.S.,1973, Colorado State University, Bio-Agricultural Science
□ M.S., 1976, Auburn University, Soil Fertility
□ Ph.D., 1979, Auburn University, Soil Chemistry
Professional Experience
Present. Professor of Agronomy, contributing faculty Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products, Toxicology, Environmental Science
1988-2004. Science Advisor (03-04), Risk Assessment Leader and Senior Research Scientist (97-03), Environmental Issues Manager (95-97), Research Scientist (94-97), Senior Scientist (91-94), Technical Leader (89-95), Project Leader (88-91), Dow AgroSciences.
1993-2004. Adjunct Professor, Agronomy, Purdue University
1988-89. Visiting Scientist, Agronomy and Soil Science, University of Hawaii.
1979-88. Associate (84-88),
Assistant (79-84) Professor, Plant and Soil Science, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville.
Research Interests
Biotechnology safety analysis
applied to risk management and science policy decision-making. Environmental and
ecotoxicological risk assessment. Soil and environmental chemistry applied to
exposure assessment, efficacy, environmental monitoring, environmental
toxicology, and environmental fate of xenobiotics. Applied soil solution
chemistry.
Research Program
Biotechnology risk assessment with
emphasis on uncertainty analysis using probability and possibility theory.
Ecological consequences of pollen and gene flow. Transgenic protein fate and
behavior in relation to human and environmental safety. Risk management and
communication.
Earlier research centered on method development and application
of soil solution compositional analysis to problems of environmental monitoring
and ecological exposure assessment. Directed a discovery support effort to
evaluate efficacy/environmental fate relationships of newly discovered
pesticides emphasizing kinetics of concurrent sorption/degradation processes,
elucidation of solute flow paths through the soil profile, methods for
enhancement of retardation/degradation within the soil profile, modeling
evaluation of environmental fate and ecotoxicity in ground and surface
water.
Text
Wolt, J. D. 1994.
Soil Solution Chemistry: Applications in Environmental
Science and Agriculture.
John Wiley
&;Sons, Inc., New York.
Publications by research
area
□ Fate & Behavior of Bioactive Agents
□ Waste Management and Utilization