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Dr. John C. Little
Civil & Environmental Engineering
[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]John C. Little is the Charles E. Via Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Little is a nationally and internationally recognized faculty member whose research focuses on two areas, indoor air pollution and lake and reservoir management. Both areas deal with mass transfer processes in environmental systems and Little is recognized as a leading expert in both areas. More recently, he has broadened his research to include interdisciplinary systems science, focusing on sustainable societal systems. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and has secured more than $10 million in research funding. Dr. Little has spent extended periods in China, Spain, Taiwan, and Switzerland collaborating on research.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”35886″ img_size=”275×355″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]On campus, he played a central role in securing a $3.2 million National Science Foundation IGERT award and served as director for half the project period. He also served as co-chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Biogeochemistry, a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need program funded for $1.1 million. Collectively, these two programs provided support for about 40 interdisciplinary Ph.D. students at Virginia Tech.
Little received a National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996, was elected to the Academy of Fellows of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate in 2008, and received the North American Lake Management Society Technical Merit Research Award in 2014. One Ph.D. student, Ying Xu, received the 2011 Yaglou Award from the Academy of Indoor Air Sciences for being the most promising young researcher in the indoor air sciences field, while another Ph.D. student, Lee Bryant, received the 2011 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for her PhD dissertation in the environmental science and engineering field.
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Water quality in lakes, reservoirs and watersheds
- Chemicals in air and water – characterizing sources and exposure
- Sustainable societal systems
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Recent Relevant Publications
ChenG, S., C. C. Carey, J. C. Little, M. E. LoftonG, R. P. McClureG, and C. Lei. 2018. Effectiveness of a bubble-plume mixing system for managing phytoplankton in lakes and reservoirs. Ecological Engineering, 113: 43−51.
ChenG, S., J. C. Little, C. C. Carey, R. P. McClureG, M. E. LoftonG, and C. Lei. 2018. Three-dimensional effects of epilimnetic mixing in a shallow drinking-water reservoir. Water Resources Research, 54: 425−441.
Chen, S., Lei, C., Carey, C. C., Gantzer, P. A. and Little, J. C. “A coupled three-dimensional hydrodynamic model for predicting hypolimnetic oxygenation and epilimnetic mixing in a shallow eutrophic reservoir,” Water Resources Research, 2017, 53, doi:10.1002/2016WR019279.
Little, J.C., E.T. Hester, and C.C. Carey. 2016. Assessing and Enhancing Environmental Sustainability – A Conceptual Review. Environmental Science & Technology 50(13):6830-45. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00298
Liu, C., Zhang, Y., Benning, J. L. and Little, J. C. “The Effect of Ventilation on Indoor Exposure to SVOCs” Indoor Air, 2014, doi:10.1111/ina.12139.
Gerling, A. B., Browne, R. G., Gantzer, P. A., Mobley, M., Little, J. C., and Carey, C. C. “First Report of the Successful Operation of a Side Stream Supersaturation Hypolimnetic Oxygenation System in a Eutrophic, Shallow Reservoir” Water Research, Vol. 67, 2014, pp. 129−143.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator style=”shadow”][/vc_column][/vc_row]