Core Project Team

	*Amy Pruden Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering apruden@vt.edu	Principal Investigator Overall project management, molecular profiling of antibiotic resistance genes
	Thomas Archibald Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education tgarch@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Led evaluation of the project’s Extension and outreach education component
	Tiffany Drape Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education tdrape@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Co-led evaluation of the project’s Extension and outreach education component
	Pang Du Associate Professor Department of Statistics pangdu@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Led statistical design of experiments and supervising statistical analysis of data produced from the project.
	W. Cully Hession Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering chession@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Oversaw design, construction, and monitoring of the field plots
	Katharine Knowlton Professor Department of Dairy Science kknowlto@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Antibiotic dosing and excretion studies, manure generation, lead of undergraduate practicum experience program, hosted AgSoAR trainees
	Leigh‐Anne Krometis Assistant Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering lehenry@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Assisted Hession in design of field plot systems, overseeing culture-based monitoring efforts
	Monica Ponder Associate Professor Department of Food Science and Technology mponder@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Led efforts to examine antibiotic resistant bacteria on fresh vegetables, examining efficacy of current post-harvest washing practices to impact antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes
	Amber Vallotton VCE Fresh Produce Food Safety Coordinator Department of Horticulture avallott@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Led extension outreach efforts for disseminating research of this project, especially through Virginia Cooperative Extension
	Kang Xia Associate Professor Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences kxia@vt.edu	Co-Principal Investigator Led analytical efforts and experiments to investigate biotic and abiotic transformation of animal manure-associated antibiotics in manure amended soils