Peter Jaffe
Department/Program(s):
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
PEI Position: Faculty/Associated Faculty
Title(s): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area(s):
- Environmental - Chemistry
- Environmental - Engineering
- Environmental - Mitigation
- Environmental - Resources
- Sustainability - Princeton
- Sustainability - Urban Design
Office: E411 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone: 609-258-4653
E-Mail: jaffe@princeton.edu
Research Interests
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.
PEI Research/Program Affiliations
- Grand Challenges Faculty
- Associated Faculty, Cooperative Institute for Climate Science
Courses
- CEE 308: Environmental Engineering Laboratory
- CEE/GEO/URB 471: Intro to Water Pollution Technology
- CEE 576: Water Quality Modeling and Analysis
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