E-mail: hoffman@brc.tamus.edu Phone: (254) 774-6040 Fax: (254) 774-6001 Address: Blackland Research Center 720 E. Blackland Road Temple, Texas 76502 Water Quality Home Page RESEARCH INTERESTS To study environmental fate of nutrients and pesticides in water and soil as affected by the implementation of agricultural Best Management Practices. EDUCATION B.S. Northwest Missouri State University, 1970 M.S. Northwest Missouri State University, 1974 Ph.D. University of Nebraska, 1976

CURRENT POSITION

Senior Research Scientist

PROFESSIONAL and HONORARY SOCIETIES

• Weed Science Society of America
• Soil and Water Conservation Society

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

•  H. Allen Torbert, Kenneth .N. Potter, Dennis W. Hoffman, T. J. Gerik, and C.W. Richardson. Surface Residue and Sol Moisture Affect Fertilizer Loss in Simulated Runoff on a Heavy Clay Soil. Agron. J. 91:606-612, 1999
• J E. Wolfe, III, D. W. Hoffman and K. N. Potter 1999.  A device for simulating overland flow.  Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.  In Press.
• Rosenthal, W. D. and D.W. Hoffman, 1999. Leon River Watershed Project, Final Report. 375 p.
• Hoffman, D.W., J. E. Wolfe, S.A. Senseman and K.N. Potter, 1998. Effectiveness of grass filter strips to reduce atrazine in simulated runoff. International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry. 6C-028.
• Dozier. M.A., S.A. Senseman, D.W. Hoffman, K.N. Potter, 1998. The removal of atrazine and metolachlor from simulated field runoff by grass Strips.  WSSA Abstracts.
• Hoffman, D.W.  1998. TEX*A*Syst, Implementation Project; Final Report.  450 p.
• Rosenthal, W. D. and D. W. Hoffman.  1997.  Modeling of sediment loads within a military base watershed.  ASAE Techn. Paper 972122.  5 pp.
• Rosenthal, W. D. and D. W. Hoffman.  1997.  Hydrologic model applications in central Texas.  Water Resources Education, Training, and Practice:  Opportunities for the next century.  Amer. Water Resources Assoc.  pp. 665-669
• Rosenthal, W. D. and D. W. Hoffman.  1996.  GIS spatial databases and hydrologic modeling: An aid to locate water quality monitoring sites.  AWRA Annual Conf. And Symp. On GIS and Water Resources.  pp. 293-295
• B. L. Harris and D. W. Hoffman, 1996. TEX*A*Syst Ground water protection program, a series of 10 publications developed to help rural residents assess the risk of ground water pollution, and to describe Best Management Practices (BMPs) that can help protect ground water.
• Hoffman, and D. Carlson, 1996. Seymour Aquifer Nonpoint Source Pollution. Project final report, 400p.
• Potter, K. N., D. W. Hoffman, H. A. Torbert, and T. J. Gerik, 1996. Water infiltration with filter strips on a clay soil. Agronomy Abstracts.
• Hoffman, D. W., T. J. Gerik, and C. W. Richardson, 1995. Use of contour strip cropping as a Best Management Practice to reduce atrazine contamination of surface water. IAWQ, DIF use POL'95, 595- 96.

• Baker, J.L., D.W. Hoffman, etal. 1995 Reducing Runoff: Role of best management practices.  Brighton Crop Protection Conference-Weeds (5B-3).479-487 .

• Hoffman, D. W. and J. E. Wolfe III. 1992.  Temperature controlled columns for herbicide dissipation studies.  WSSA Abstracts.

• Hoffman, D. W., W. L. Bland, and C. W. Richardson. 1991.  Effects of a synthetic polymer on atrazine and metolachlor leaching and runoff. WSSA Absracts, 31:209.