Dr. Ryan McManamay is an Associate Professor within the Department of Environmental Sciences at Baylor University. Previously, he was a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for 6 years, the lead of the Energy-Water Nexus theme within the Urban Dynamics Institute at ORNL, and a Joint Faculty member of the Bredesen Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Ryan is a spatial ecologist that studies human-environmental systems in order to balance ecosystem and societal needs. He has conducted research on future energy resource assessments, infrastructure projection models, environmental footprints of energy, and land use and land cover model development. Ryan is also a resident of a rural community in Texas, and is working with solar PV developers to demonstrate small-scale solar projects on his own property.