Scott A Senseman

Scott Senseman graduated from Wilmington College of Ohio in 1986 with a B.S. in Agricultural Business. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas in Agronomy-Weed Science (1990) and Agronomy-Pesticide Residue (1994), respectively. He served on the faculty in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University for more than 18 years starting in October 1994. In June of 2020, he served in the role of Interim Dean of University of Tennessee Extension ending in February 2021. Prior to that appointment, he served as Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Tennessee where he has been employed since July, 2013. He also served as Deputy Assistant Dean for Strategic Planning for the Herbert College of Agriculture from April 2019 to May 2020. He is currently serving as Professor and Associate Vice President of the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station as of July 31, 2021. He has authored or coauthored 107 peer-reviewed journal articles and 229 abstracts of poster and oral presentations. In 2007, he finished service as editor for the Weed Science Society of America’s Ninth Edition of the Herbicide Handbook. He served as President for both the Southern Weed Science Society (2014) and the Weed Science Society of America (2018). Dr. Senseman helped develop and teach the beginning course in agronomy (SCSC 101 Introduction to Agronomy), two undergraduate courses related to the evolution, role, and fate of agricultural chemicals in row crop production (SCSC 435 Ecology of Agrochemicals and SCSC 446 Weed Management and Ecology), a graduate and distance course related to herbicide mode of action and environmental fate (SCSC 650 Mode of Action and Environmental Fate of Herbicides) as well as an analytical course related to instrumentation used in environmental aspects of agronomy (SCSC 618 Methods of Plant, Soil, and Water Analysis in Environmental Systems). He also co-developed and co-taught PLSC 456/556 Turfgrass Weed Science at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Senseman has served as major advisor or co-advisor for 22 graduate students and has served on 66 other graduate student committees and four international undergraduate internships during his academic career.