Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) has been widely used in municipal wastewater treatment, but no previous studies have examined the application of EBPR to treat dairy manure. This study was conducted to evaluate the (i) performance of pilot-scale EBPR systems treating liquid dairy manure, to balance the ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in manure to meet crop nutrient requirements, (ii) effects of dissolved oxygen and solids retention time on the efficiency of EBPR, and (iii) I would like to express my appreciation to my advisor, Dr. Jactone Arogo, for his time and guidance throughout this research. I would also like to thank my committee members, Dr. Katharine F. Knowlton and Dr. Amy J. Pruden, for their invaluable comments and assistance in my study. I am very grateful to Dr. Clifford W. Randall and Dr. Chao Shang for their time and patience to answer my questions. I am very appreciative of Hope White, Jody Smiley and Julie Jordan for being so supportive and helpful, when I was using IC, GC and other facilities in their labs. I want to thank Karen Hall for her hard work and continuous support for my sample analysis. Also, I want to thank Monika Corbett and Jo DeBusk for kindly teaching me many laboratory skills. Many thanks go to Lifeng Li for his tremendous support, help and encouragement during my graduate studies. Finally, I would like to extend thanks to Sonja Galley,