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Irwin Suffet, Ph.D.

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Fax Number: 310-206-3358
Work Phone Number: 310-206-8230

Work Email Address: msuffet@ucla.edu

Education: Ph.D., Environmental Science and Chemistry , Rutgers University
Research Interests: His current research interests include:

* development of new analytical methods for trace organic compounds in aquatic systems, as Nitrosoamine contaminant transport in surface water and sediments, including PCB's and organophosphate pesticides non-point source runoff of hazardous compounds, particularly, chlorinated pesticides and pharmaceuticals treatment of drinking water for taste and odor compounds and hazardous compounds, specifically ozonation

* wastewater reclamation related to non-potable and potable reuse



Bio: Dr. Suffet is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) and a core member of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program housed in the EHS Department. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College (1961), his M.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Maryland (1964), and his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Chemistry from Rutgers University (1968). Dr. Suffet joined UCLA in 1991 after 21 years experience at the Department of Chemistry and the Environmental Studies Institute at Drexel University where he was the P. W. Purdom Professor of Environmental Chemistry.

Dr. Suffet has published more than 160 research papers and co-edited eight research treatises. He is the 1983 recipient of the F. J. Zimmerman Environmental Science Award of the American Chemical Society and the 2001 A. P. Black Award for lifetime achievement in drinking water quality research from the American Water Works Association. Dr. Suffet teaches on topics concerning the transport and fate and treatment of organic compounds in aquatic systems, and analytical and environmental chemistry.

Selected Publications:

Suffet IH, Burlingame GA, Rosenfeld PE, Bruchet A. Polychlorinated biphenyls in surface runoff from agricultural fields in southern California. Water Science and Technology 2004; 50(4): 25-32.

Suffet IH, Pedersen JA, Schweitzer LE. Effect of aeration of anoxic estuarine sediments on the distribution, mobility and bioavailability of 2,2 ',4,4 '-tetrachlorobiphenyl. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 2003; 226: U514-U514.

Young CC, Suffet IH. Development of a standard method - Analysis of compounds causing tastes and odors in drinking water. Water Science and Technology 1999; 40(6): 279-285.

Schweitzer L, Suffet IH. Exposure assessment of taste and odor standards used in the method of flavor profile analysis. Water Science and Technology 1999; 40(6): 209-215.

Suffet IH, Khiari D, Bruchet A. The drinking water taste and odor wheel for the millennium: Beyond geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol. Water Science and Technology 1999; 40(6): 1-13 .

Capangpangan MB, Suffet IHM. Validation studies for a new supercritical fluid extraction method for the isolation of hydrophobic organic compounds from filtered suspended solids. Journal of Chromatography 1997; 782(2): 247-256.
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
UCLA School of Public Health
Environmental Health Sciences
BOX 951772, 46-081B CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

Fax Number: 310-206-3358
Work Phone Number: 310-206-8230

Work Email Address: msuffet@ucla.edu

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