A&M Professor Set To Be Appointed TCEQ Commissioner

Capitol Annex has learned that Texas Governor Rick Perry is set to appoint Dr. Bryan Shaw, an Associate Professor and member of the Center for Agricultural Air Quality Engineering and Science in the Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, as Commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Shaw received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He teaches and conducts air quality research on topics including development of accurate emission factors for feed and grain handling, emissions from cattle feed yards, development of air pollution dispersion models, and fugitive dust emissions from field operations.

According to information Capitol Annex has received, Shaw recently spent one year working with USDANRCS as Special Assistant to the Chief under an Interagency Personnel Agreement. In this role he provided national leadership in the development of policies and programs to address agricultural air quality concerns.

From 1986 through 1989, Shaw was a cotton and peanut farmer in Gaines County, before becoming a graduate teaching assistant at A&M.

From June through August of 2002, he was Acting Lead Scientist for Air Quality at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. From 2002 through 2003, he served as Special Assistant to the Chief of Air Quality, United States Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service, in Washington, D.C.

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