Jordan T Jatko, M.S.
Doctoral Student - Dr. McManamay
Environmental Science
I am researching the effects of urbanization on watershed health and monitoring techniques used to assign water quality standards (WQS). With a collaboration of Baylor professors, we have developed new modeling techniques for nutrient contamination in under-monitored rural streams. My other projects include predicting where urban centers will intensify or build new wastewater treatment plants under various shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP) scenarios up to the year 2100. I am working in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the use of surrogate contaminant concentrations to predict watershed health and movement of contaminants through food webs. Another project I have taken on is the use of models to predict watershed health using benthic macroinvertebrate index of biotic integrity (IBI) scores, and then scaling this method to assign aquatic health scores to larger water regions.
Education
B.S. – Physiology – Middle Tennessee State University
B.A. – German Language and Literature – Middle Tennessee State University
M.S. – Environmental Toxicology – Clemson University
Thesis – “Effects of a 5-week 100ppb Arsenic Exposure in Drinking Water on Mouse Intestinal Epithelium”