Timothy G. (Tim) Rials, Ph.D.

Associate Dean and Associate Director
  UT AgResearch
  
Director
  The Center for Renewable Carbon
  
Professor
  School of Natural Resources
  

Phone: (865) 946-1129
Email: trials@tennessee.edu


Focus: Renewable carbon

Recent Publications

Education

Ph.D. Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1986
M.S. Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1983
B.S. Forest Management, Mississippi State University, 1980


Videos

	Renewable Carbon Tree Harvest Trees that we harvest can become our fuel, energy, and industrial products. Finding the best materials for this purpose is part of the mission for UT's Center for Renewable Carbon.
	Center for Renewable Carbon AgResearchers at UT are developing ways of converting renewable carbon sources from plants into fuels and other products
	Biofuel A recent report says the U.S. could produce a billion tons of biofuel materials each year, without impacting food supplies. We are working on ways to produce biomass and alternative fuels.

News

New UTIA AgResearch Associate Deans Announced

UT Center Continues Quest for Low-Cost, High-Quality Bioenergy

UT and Genera Energy Harvest Hybrid Poplar Toward Biobased Economy

Bioenergy Research Marches Toward Energy Independence

Fast-growing trees may yield high returns for biorefineries

USDA official Tours Center for Renewable Carbon

Bioenergy Research on the Move!

UT Researchers Visit China to Explore Biofuels