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Chad Jafvert

Professor
Aquatic Chemistry

 

Purdue University

School of Civil Engineering

550 Stadium Mall Drive

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051

 

Phone: (765) 494-2196 
email: jafvert@ecn.purdue.edu

 

Education 

B.S.  Biochemistry, Iowa State University, 1979

M.S.  Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, 1982

Ph.D.  Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, 1985

Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Research Council, assigned to the U.S. EPA, Athens GA, 1985-1986

Courses

 

CE 350 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering

CE 353 - Physico-Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering

CE 59700 008 - Water Chemistry

CE 55900 -  Water Quality Modeling

CE 49700 - Environmental and Ecological Systems Modeling

EPICS - Engineering Projects in Community Service (CE 296/396/496)-Constructed Wetlands/Elliot Ditch

CE 651 - Advanced Environmental Science

CE 597 - Soil and Groundwater Remediation

CE 293 - Computers and Computer Programming in Civil Engineering

 

Related Links

 

Macros - Here are some example Excel macros for Solving Problems in Water Chemistry

 

              Kinetic Examples

 

 

THOR+ - Purdue's Library for e-journals and Chemical Abstracts

 

MyPurdue

 

OnePurdue

 

Research Interests, Projects, and Collaborators

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Collaborators - Heather Gall, Linda Lee, Byron Jenkinson, Ronald Turco

 

Chemical Speciation and Distribution in Engineered and Natural Systems 

Collaborators - Linda S. Lee, Jennifer Kolbe, Timothy J. Strathmann, Jose Fabrega-Duque, Hui Li,  Chung-Hee Chang, Beth Vogt, Pradnya Kulkarni, Chia-Ying Chen

Environmental Chemistry of Surfactants

Collaborators - Fuad J. Dahan, Ching-Chieh Lin, Ching Yuan 

Sediment Remediation, Risk Assessment - Photos

Collaborators - Suresh Rao, Doug Lane, Seunghun Hyun, Yong-Sang Kim

Environmental Photochemistry

Collaborators -  Inez Hua, Richard Larson, Wei Chu, Claude Diehl, Namgoo Kang, Jose Fabrega-Duque, Juan Cesar Bezares-Cruz, Wen-Che Hou  

 

Current Research Project Links:

 

       EPA STAR - Hormone Monitoring Field Sites (Ph.D. Student Heather Gall)- Webpage

                  (Heather Gall's other activities: Green Roof)

 

       EPA STAR - Manufactured Carbon Nanomaterials in the Aquatic Environment (Ph.D. Students

                  Wen-Che Hou and Chia-Ying Chen) - Research Highlight

 

       NiSource - Coal Tar Contaminated Sediment (Postdoc Yong Sang Kim) - Recent Poster

 

       Centró de Investigaciones Hidráulicas e Hidrotécnicas - Webpage

 

Short Resume                  Papers and Presentations                 Photos

 

Lab Tours  

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   Tour 1 (Environmental Aquatic Chemistry Lab)

 

   Tour 2 (Analytical Chemistry Lab -Room 1)

 

   Tour 3 (Analytical Chemistry Lab - Room 2)

 

Laboratory Manager - Changhe Xiao, Ph.D.

 

Current and Former Graduate Students 

 

Heather Preisendanz (MSCE, 12/08, current Ph.D. Student) Monitoring the Environment in Real-Time

Juan Cesar Bezares-Cruz (Ph.D. Student) Photochemistry of Polybromodiphenylethers

Chia-Ying Chen (Ph.D. Student) Sorption and Reactions of Fullerene Clusters

Wen-Che Hou (Ph.D. Student) Photochemistry of C60

Yong-Sang Kim (Ph.D. 12/08) Evaluation of an in-situ permeable sand cap for remediation of coal tar impacted river sediment

Pradnya Kulkarni (Ph.D. 12/07) Solubility and Partitioning of Buckminsterfullerene (C60)

Jennifer Kolbe (Ph.D. 8//06) Environmental Issues Related to Coal Ash Disposal with Emphasis on Boron and Arsenic Behavior (Co-Advisor with Linda S. Lee)

Matthew Smith (MSCE 4/04) Reductive Dechlorination of Technical Chlordane Congeners (co-advisor with L. Nies)

Douglas Lane (MSCE 4/03) Characterization of Coal Tar Contaminated Sediment and Preliminary Evaluation of Sediment Capping

Benjaporn Siripromachot (MSCE 12/02) Nonthesis Project: Acid-Extractable Solid Phase Composition of a Fly Ash-Filled Abandoned Coal Mine

Fuad Dahan (Ph.D. 5/02) Modeling Surfactant Adsorption to the Oil-Water Interface

Alan Chang (MSCE 12/00) Nonthesis Project: Photolysis of Decabromodiphenylether in Hexane, and Adsorbed to Water Saturated Sand 

Amy Chang (MSCE 7/00) Nonthesis student

Ching-Chieh Lin (PhD 8/99) A Triple Layer Planar Coordinate Model for Describing Counter-Ion Association to Micelles

Jose Fabrega-Duque (PhD  8/99) Modeling Soil-Water Phase Transfer Processes of Aromatic Amines

Ameya Lamaya (MSCE 7/97) Nonthesis Project: Diffusion Dependent Chemical Reactions of initially Segregated Species in Laminar Shear Flows (Co-advisor with Vivek Kapoor)

Chung-Hee Chang (PhD 12/97) A Fluorescence Quenching Study of PAH Compounds in Aqueous Solutions Containing Interacting Cosolutes

Chihhao Fan (PhD 12/97) Solubilities of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Alcohol-Water Mixtures

Claude Diehl (MS 12/96) Photolysis of Nitroarenes in Aqueous Solutions Containing Surfactants

Timothy Strathmann (MSCE 12/96) Ion-Pair Association of Inorganic Cations with Substituted Phenolate Anions in Octanol

Ching Yuan (PhD 12/95) Anionic and Nonionic Surfactant Phase Distribution Processes in Environmentally Relevant Matrices

Wei Chu  (PhD 8/94) Photochemical Reactions of Polychlorobenzenes and Polychlorobiphenyls in Surfactant Micelle and Surfactant-Extracted-Soil Solutions

Michael Ketcham (MS 5/94) A GIS Toolbox for Targeting Nonpoint Source Pollution in Urban Areas

Chihhao Fan (MSE 5/94) Assessing Monochloramine Hydrolysis in Chloramine Solution

Beth Vogt (MSCE 12/93) Desorption of p,p'-DDT from Historically Contaminated Sediment

Christopher Allen (MSCE 12/93) Water Quality Modeling of the White River

Foon-Yee Chong (MSE 6/93) -  Partitioning of Organic Acid Compounds between Octanol and Water

 

 Post-Doctoral Advisees

 

Patricia L. Van Hoof (Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin), Post-Doctoral Research Associate, U.S. EPA Research Lab, Athens, GA., supported by a grant from  the EPA, Biosystems Technology Development Program, 1989-1991.

José Fabrega-Duque (Ph.D. from Purdue University) Post-doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, supported by a grant from the Chemical Manufacturer’s Association, 2000-2001.

Seunghun Hyun (Ph.D. Purdue University, Agronomy Dept.), Post-doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, supported by grants from NiSource (Co-PIs: S. Rao and L. Lee), 2003-2004; 2005-2006.

Amanda Neinow (Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota), Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, supported directly by ACT I, a small business with research activities at the Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana, Merrillville, IN, 2005-2006 (co-advised by Prof. Inez Hua).

Yong-Sang Kim (Ph.D. from Purdue University) Post-doctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering, supported by a grant from NiSource Corporation, 2009.

 

Former Students and Post-Doctoral Associates Teaching at Universities

 

Wei Chu (Ph.D., 1994), Professor, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hun Hom Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Ching Yuan  (Ph.D., 1995), Chair and Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Chihhao Fan (Ph.D. 1997), Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Ming-Chi Institute of Technology, Taipei County, Taiwan.

Ching-Chieh (Jing-Jing) Lin (Ph.D., 1999), Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Kun Shan University, Tainan, Taiwan

Timothy J. Strathmann (M.S.C.E., 1996), Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

Seunghun Hyun (Post-Doc, 2003-2006) Assistant Professor, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

Amanda Neinow (Post-Doc, 2005-2006) Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN

Links

Purdue University

College of Engineering

School of Civil Engineering

Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Center for the Environment (C4E)

BGI Green Roof and Video

Wabash River Heritage Corridor Commission

U.S. EPA

NSF

Is Purdue Sustainable?

http://www.nicheslandtrust.org/

http://www.in.gov/dnr/

http://www.in.gov/idem/

Monitoring Instrument Vendors

http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/cwed/

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/in/nwis/nwisman/?site_no=03335500&agency_cd=USGS

http://www.gwrsystem.com/  or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4r3u9MXd-g

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june08/water_03-24.html

 

"On earth Day, April 22, 1970, early in the morning, I went to the legislature in Albany

with Senate Majority Leader Earl W. Brydges, Senator Bernard C. Smith,

and Assemblyman Glen Harris.  We met more than seven hundred student leaders from throughout

the state, and I signed into law the new Department of Environmental Conservation.  That morning, incidentally,

I proved that I could still ride a bicycle-even though I was so preoccupied with staying on the thing

that I rode the wrong way on a one-way street.  

- Nelson A. Rockefeller, from "Our Environment Can be Saved", Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970

 

 

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