JOSEPH J. DELFINO is Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences (EES), University of Florida, PO Box 116450, Gainesville, FL 32611-6450. He served as Department Chairman from January, 1990 through August, 1999, Interim Chairman during 2002-2003, and Graduate Coordinator from 1990 – 2007. He has been on the faculty there since 1982. Previously, he served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and other institutions, including the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he was concurrently a Captain in the USAF. He was also a manager in an environmental consulting firm with emphasis on environmental impact studies. He teaches or has taught courses in water quality analysis, instrumentation, water chemistry (equilibrium), water chemistry (organic), industrial ecology, public health engineering, environmental health, environmental science, environmental engineering ethics, and introduction to environmental engineering. He has received six Teacher of the Year Awards from the students in EES. His research, funded by various Federal and state agencies, has focused on water quality chemistry including studies of the interaction of petroleum-derived fuels with water (e.g. oxygenated fuel additives such as MTBE), and the accumulation of mercury in Everglades soils. Additional studies have included the distribution, fate and transport of toxic organic chemicals from hazardous waste sites to surface waters, and the aquatic chemistry of lead in an impacted wetland site. He has also guided studies on the chemistry of humic substances derived from Florida waters (including the use of stable isotopes to track carbon and nitrogen fluxes), the nature of organic matter in river sediments, the fate of carbamate pesticides in surface and ground waters, and the biodegradation of pentachlophenol at a superfund site. More recent research has involved the dissolution kinetics of explosive compounds, the fate of organic compounds and potential endocrine disruptors related to pulp mill processes, carbon and nitrogen in the Suwannee River Estuary, nitrates in ground water and surface waters with current emphasis in the Suwannee and Santa Fe River watersheds, and water resources policy with emphasis on sustainable water supplies in Florida,

Throughout his professional career, his research has resulted in approximately 100 publications as book chapters, peer reviewed journal articles, and co-authorship of a book with H.T. Odum and other authors entitled Heavy Metals in the Environment: Using Wetlands for their Removal. He has presented numerous papers and seminars at professional society meetings and universities, both nationally and internationally. He mentored several graduate students at the University of Wisconsin and, to date, over 80 graduate students at the University of Florida who are enrolled or who have received their M.S., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees under his direction. These graduates are employed in academia, consulting, government, and in the military services. Several of his publications, including those co-authored with his graduate students, have been highly cited in the scientific literature. His past professional activities included service to the American Chemical Society [and the ACS Environmental Chemistry Division and the Florida Section], and to the Committee that produces Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. He has current memberships in the ACS, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, the Florida Academy of Sciences, the International Society for Industrial Ecology, and the American Water Resources Association. He has been Regional Vice President for North America of the Committee on Technology for the World Federation of Engineering Organizations. He has also served on several U.S. Government Agency and Florida DEP technical peer review panels, and has contributed extensively to faculty governance committees at the Universities of Florida and Wisconsin. He was the co-creator and chief technical advisor of The Florida Water Story, an award-winning two-hour documentary film that was produced by Courter Films and Associates for public television and originally aired state-wide in Florida through WEDU TV in Tampa, FL. He is a member of the City of Gainesville, FL Water Management Committee. A past member of the Alachua County (FL) Air Quality Commission, and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. [August 2007]

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