Dr. Anderson’s teaching and research focuses on the movement of chemical contaminants in the environment in order to evaluate and better characterize potential exposure of organisms to contaminants, as well as support tests on chemical effects.  He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he was a Department of Energy Research Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, He did postdoctoral research at Iowa State University.  Dr. Anderson was an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at The Institute of Wildlife and Environmental Toxicology (TIWET) at Clemson University from 1996-1997.  In 1996, Dr. Anderson received the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Roy F. Weston Award, an award given annually to a scientist under the age of 35 for contributions made to the field of environmental chemistry.  Dr. Anderson was selected by Sigma Xi as the Southwest Regional Young Investigator for 1999 and 2001 based on his work with chemical contaminants in soil-plant systems.  At Texas Tech, Dr. Anderson has received the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2003) and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award (2004).  In 2005, he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society.  Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the journal, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Kvanli, D., S. Marisetty, T.A. Anderson, and A.N. Morse. 2008 Monitoring estrogen compounds in wastewater recycling systems. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 188:31-40

Low, D., K. Tan, T.A. Anderson, G.P. Cobb, J. Liu, and W.A. Jackson. 2008. Treatment of RDX by down flow constructed wetland mesocosms. Ecological Engineering 32:72-80.

Yu, L., G. Coimbatore, G.P. Cobb, W.A. Jackson, S.T. McMurry, P.N. Smith, and T.A. Anderson. 2008. Evaluation of passive sampling devices as potential surrogates of metal uptake into soybean. Journal of Plant Nutrition. 31:1-17.