Brent Auvermann
Based in Amarillo, Dr. Auvermann’s research program centers on environmental quality and natural resources associated with confined livestock production. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU). Dr. Auvermann specializes in air quality; natural-resource consumption; manure, nutrient, and mortality management; water quality; and biomass energy as they all pertain to confined cattle feeding. His projects focus on feedyard manure management, production and land application of composted manure, dust and odor abatement, feedyard dust characterization, antimicrobial resistance, and air pollution policy analysis. Dr. Auvermann’s role in the Southwest Beef CAP is to stimulate and sustain meaningful integration of engineering, ecology, and the social sciences, especially as that integration pertains to feedyard-level decisions to adopt (or not to adopt) new conservation technologies and/or management strategies in the cattle-feeding industry.