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James John Bisogni

Professor Emeritus

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

James John Bisogni
James John Bisogni
Graduate Field Affiliation
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Biography

Bisogni joined the faculty of the Department of Environmental Engineering in 1972. In 1975 he spent six months at Eastman Kodak as a consultant and process engineer, and in 1982 he was a visiting associate professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the New York Water Pollution Control Association, the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors, the International Association on Water Pollution Research.

Research Interests

Bisogni’s research focuses primarily on the application of chemical and physical principles to the solution of water and wastewater treatment and water quality issues in natural systems. Recent research has involved water quality control for intensive aquaculture, control of lead and copper in water supply distribution systems and the modeling and development of inorganic carbon, oxygen transfer and ammonia measurements in anaerobic wastewater treatment processes. Biochar absorption of nitrate ammonia, nitrate and phosphate is also being studied

Teaching Interests

Courses taught focus on the physical/chemical processes in treatment processes and in natural aquatic systems.

Service Interests

  • Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee – Cornell U Chemical and Radiation Disposal Sites Emergency Response Committee
  • College of Engineering Co-Op Advisory Committee
  • University Health Careers Evaluation Committee
  • College of Engineering Grievance Committee
  • Faculty Advisor – Chi Epsilon o Graduate School Assessment Committee
  • University Educational Policy Committee

Select Publications

  • Hollister, C C., James John Bisogni, J Lehmann. 2013. “Ammonium, Nitrate and Phosphate Sorption to and Solute Leaching from Biochars Prepared from Corn Stover (Zea mays L.) and Oak Wood (Quercus spp.).” Journal of Environmental Quality 42: 137-144.

  • Morales, Verónica L., Wei Zhang, Bin Gao, Leonard W. Lion, James John Bisogni, Brendan A. McDonough, Tammo S Steenhuis. 2011. “Impact of Dissolved Organic Matter on Colloid Transport in the Vadose Zone: Deterministic Approximation of Transport Deposition Coefficients from Polymeric Coating Characteristics.” Water Research 45: 1691-1701.

  • Hafner, Sasha P., James John Bisogni. 2009. “Modeling of Ammonia Speciation in Anaerobic Digesters.” Water research 43(17): 4105-4114.

  • Ebeling, J M., M. Timmons, James John Bisogni. 2009. “An Engineering Analysis of the Stoichiometry of Autotrophic, Heterotrophic Bacterial Control of Ammonia-Nitrogen in Zero-Exchange Marine Shrimp Production Systems.” International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture 10: 63-90.

  • Aitchison , T F., M B. Timmons, James John Bisogni, R H. Piedrahita, B J Vinci. 2007. “Using Oxygen Gas Transfer Coefficients to Predict Carbon Dioxide Removal.” International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture 8(0): 21-42.

James J. Bisogni Jr.'s ResearchGate

Select Awards and Honors

  • Daniel M. Lazar Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University 2009
  • Outstanding Teaching Recognition Award, The American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Cornell Chapter 1997
  • Chi Epsilon Professor of the Year 1987

Education

  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Lehigh University 1968
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Cornell University 1970
  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Cornell University 1973