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Department/Program(s):
    Position: Faculty
    Title: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
    Area(s):
    • Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
    Research Area(s):
    Transport and transformation of pollutants in the environment; remediation of contaminated systems; numerical simulation of denitrification in soils as a function of rainfall and soil properties; climate change models; biogeochemically mediated dynamics of trace metals in sediments, wetland soils, and groundwater; biological reduction of uranium in groundwater; long-term stability of the reduced uranium phases; nitrogen processing in urban settings coupled to urban hydrology; effects of carbon dioxide sequestration in deep aquifers on shallow soils due to potential leaks

    Office: C319E Engineering Quad C-Wing
    Phone: 609-258-4653
    Peter Jaffe


    Education

    Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1981

    Research Interests

    Research interests relate to the physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the transport and transformation of pollutants in the environment and their application toward the remediation of contaminated systems.  Areas of current emphasis include laboratory and field experiments as well as mathematical simulations of biogeochemical processes in porous media, such as:  (1) numerical simulation of denitrification in soils as a function of rainfall and soil properties, and the scaling of these results to link them to climate change models; (2) biogeochemically mediated dynamics of trace metals in sediments, wetland soils, and groundwater; (3) biological reduction of uranium in groundwater and the long-term stability of the reduced uranium phases; (4) nitrogen processing in urban settings coupled to urban hydrology; and (5) effects of carbon dioxide sequestration in deep aquifers on shallow soils due to potential leaks. Professor Jaffe has served on numerous committees and panels, including the National Research Council, EPA, NIH, and DOE.

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    Courses 

    CEE308 Environmental Engineering Laboratory
    CEE471 Introduction to Water Polllution Technology
    CEE576 Water Quality Modeling and Analysis

    Updated: May 14, 2009


    Recent Publications


    1. Shrestha, J., J.R. Rich, J.G. Ehrenfeld, and P.R. Jaffe. Oxidation of Ammonium to Nitrite under Iron Reducing Conditions in Wetland Soils; Laboratory, Field Demonstrations and Push Pull Rate Determination. Soil Science, Vol. 174, No. 3, 2009, pp. 156-164.
    2. Moon, H.S., J. Komlos, and P.R. Jaffe. Biogenic U(IV) Oxidation by Dissolved Oxygen and Nitrate in Sediment after Prolonged U(VI)/Fe(III)/SO42- Reduction. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 105, 2009, pp. 18-27.
    3. Kim, H.S. and P.R. Jaffe. Degradation of Toluene by a Mixed Population of Archetypal Aerobes, Microaerophiles, and Denitrifiers: Laboratory Sand Column Experiment and Multispecies Biofilm Model Formulation. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2008, Vol. 99, No. 2, pp. 290-301.
    4. Zazo, J.A., J.S. Paull, and P.R. Jaffe. Influence of Plants on the Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium in Wetland Sediments. Environmental Pollution, March 2008, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2008.01.006, 156, 2008, pp. 29-35.
    5. Komlos, J., R. Kukkadapu, J.M. Zachara, and P.R. Jaffe. Biostimulation of Iron Reduction and Subsequent Oxidation of Sediment Containing Fe-silicates and Fe-oxides: Effect of Redox Cycling on Fe(III) Bioreduction. Water Research, Vol. 41, 2007, pp. 2996-3004.