James W. Morris, PhD, PE has practiced engineering for more than 40 years as a consultant, technology provider and professor (Cornell University - instructor, University of Manitoba and University of Vermont). James is an agricultural, industrial and municipal waste treatment engineer specializing in biological processes. He has served a broad array of clients being responsible for study, technical evaluations, design, and operational guidance of processes to treat, handle, convey, and discharge liquid and solid wastestreams using aerobic and/or anaerobic biological and physical-chemical technologies. He has successfully addressed pollution management challenges in food processing and animal production, produced award winning designs for municipal and industrial clients, applied innovative technologies and approaches, at small 12 kgpd on-site systems to 400 million gallon per day treatment works, for projects located throughout the United States and across the globe. Dr. Morris has developed seven granted US and five foreign granted biological process patents. Key involvement with anaerobic technologies began with his doctoral work at Cornell in the late 1970s and has been an important focus throughout his career. He is a professional engineer, licensed in Maine and Vermont, who earned his BSCEE and MSCEE at Tennessee Technological University and a Ph.D. from Cornell. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Water Environment Federation, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and the Aquacultural Engineering Society.
Dr. Morris has studied and performed research covering a broad range of environmental concerns including: high rate anaerobic processes, secondary solids separation, land treatment of wastes, and biological nutrient uptake on a variety of municipal, industrial, commercial and agricultural wastestreams.
