Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, USF College of Public Health. His research interests include: sources, fate and behavior of organic pollutants in the environment and the effects on human health and he is currently involved in a multidisciplinary research team where he is developing novel techniques for the detection and quantitation of organic pollutants at low concentrations in municipal wastewater. The pollutants under consideration include persistent organic pollutants (e.g., polybrominated diphenyl ethers), sex hormones (e.g., estradiol, ethynyl estradiol), surfactants and their metabolites (e.g., nonylphenol), plasticizers (e.g., bisphenol-A), and other endocrine-disrupting compounds using LC/MS and GC/MS. Professor Jaward has also helped developed novel techniques in passive air sampling using polyurethane foam disks to measure the spatial and temporal trends/variations in ambient concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and the processes controlling their global cycling in source regions and in remote areas across Europe, Asia, and in Africa.

REU students will be trained in both air and water sampling analyses using polyurethane foam passive samplers and canisters respectively, doing different solvent extractions and sample cleanups in the laboratory. This will help in the development of an environmental fate model to better understand the distribution and fluxes of these organic pollutants in the Tampa Bay estuary.

More information: Dr. Jaward's website