Westerhoff
PDF versionPaul Westerhoff
- Professor
- School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- Civil Engineering
Paul Westerhoff joined ASU and CESE in August 1995 and was promoted to full professor as a University Exemplar in 2007. He was appointed Chair of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering in 2008 and Interim Head of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in 2009.
He has led the environmental and water faculty groups in the department for the past 6 years. Westerhoff has a strong publication and research record, has garnered wide recognition for his work related to treatment and occurrence of emerging contaminants in water, and has been active in multidisciplinary research. He has lead research funded by AWWARF, USEPA, NSF and local organizations investigating reactions and fate of oxo-anions (bromate, nitrate, arsenate) during water treatment, characterization, treatment and oxidation of natural organic matter in watersheds, formation of disinfection by-products, removal of taste and odor micropollutants and fate of nanomaterials in water. He has over 68 peer reviewed journal article publications and has been involved in over 200 conference presentations. He belongs to ASCE, AWWA, AEESP, ACS, IOA, IWA, AWPCA, and IHSS and serves on numerous voluntary committees for these organizations.
Drinking water treatment and water quality
University of Colorado - Boulder 1995
University of Massachusetts - Amhurst 1991
Lehigh University 1989
2007 Promotion and Tenure Faculty Exemplar, Arizona State University
2007 Selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Science conference at Microsoft in Seattle, WA
2006 Paul L. Busch Research Award from Water Environment Research Foundation Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research, Tools to Characterize and Understand the Risk of Biogenic and Commercial Nanomaterials in Wastewater Effluents
2005 Barrett, The Honors College award for 2005-2006 Honors Disciplinary Faculty
2005 Awwa Annual Conference Poster Symposium First Place Award “Aerogel-GAC Composites for Arsenic and Uranium Removal”, Water Science and Research Division (Westerhoff, Badruzzaman, Navarnoaragon Coleman, Reynolds, Gammon, Genetti)
2005 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize for “Reactions between natural organic matter and micropollutants with ozone, chlorine, and bromine”.
2004 Journal of Environmental Engineering “Editor’s Award” (for consistently rated as excellent in evaluating manuscripts) From Mark Rood, Editor
2003 AWWA Water Quality and Technology Conference Third Place (out of 41) Poster Award for “Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Analysis in Drinking Water”
2001 Quentin Mees Research Award, Arizona Water Pollution Control Association for “Removal of MIB and Geosmin in Surface Water Treatments in Arizona”
2000 WEFTEC Annual Conference Poster Symposium First Place Award “Characterization of wastewater organic matter during full-scale treatment” (Esparza-Soto and Westerhoff)
1999 American Water Works Association Journal Publications Best Overall Paper Award
1999 American Water Works Association Water Quality Division Best Journal Paper Award.
1997 Quentin Mees Research Award, Arizona Water Pollution Control Association, for paper entitled “A
model for predicting bromide oxidation by ozone and HO radicals to bromate and the potential role for ozone in treating Arizona surface waters”
1993 Annual CH2M Hill University Funding Award through Univ. of Colorado ($1,000)
1994 American Water Works Association (Rocky Mountain Section) James B. Warner Scholarship
Sponsored Nominee for NSF and NATO International Water Quality Conference in Varna, Bulgaria
American Chemical Society Award of Merit for authorship and presentation of “Evaluation of Rate Constants for Dissolved Ozone Decay and Bromate Formation” at the 206th ACS-
Division of Environmental Engineering Conference (1993)
American Chemical Society Award of Merit for co-authorship and presentation of “Comparison
of Bromide-Ozone Reactions with NOM Separated by XAD-8 Resin and UF/RO Membranes” at the
206th ACS-Division of Environmental Engineering Conference (1993)
Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Phi Eta Sigma
“Antimony Leaching from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) Plastic Used For Bottled Drinking Water”, Paul Westerhoff, Panjai Prapaipong, Everett Shock, Alice Hillaireau, Water Research, 42:3:551-556 (2008)
“Stability and Removal of Water Soluble CdTe Quantum Dots in Water” Zhang, Yang; Chen, Yongsheng; Westerhoff, Paul; Crittenden, John, Environmental Science and Engineering Environ. Sci. Technol., 42 :1 :321-325 (2008)
Arsenate removal by nanostructured ZrO2 spheres, Hristovski, K., Westerhoff, P., Crittenden, J., Olson, L., Environmental Science and Technology, 42:10:3786-3790 (2008).
Stability of Commercial Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Water, Yang Zhang, Yongsheng Chen, Kiril Hristovski, Paul Westerhoff, John C Crittenden, Water Research, 42:8-9:2204-2212 (2008)
Correlations between organic matter properties and DBP formation during chloramination, X. Yang, C. Shang, W. Lee, P. Westerhoff, C. Fan, Water Research, 42:8:2329-2339 (2008)
“Simultaneous Removal of Perchlorate and Arsenate by Ion Exchange Media Modified with Nanostructured Iron (Hydr)Oxide”, Kiril Hristovski, Paul Westerhoff, Teresia Möller, Paul Sylvester, Wendy Condit, Heath Mash, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 152:1:397-406 (2008)
Nanoparticle Silver Released into Water from Commercially Available Sock Fabrics, Benn, T. and Westerhoff, P. Environmental Science and Technology, 42:11:4133-4139 (2008)
Physicochemical Treatment of Three Chemotherapy Drugs: Irinotecan, Tamoxifen, and Cyclophosphamide, Chen, Z., Park, G., Herckes, P., Westerhoff, P., J. Advanced Oxidation Technologies, 11:2:254-260 (2008)
Arsenate Removal by Iron (Hydr) Oxide Modified Granulated Activated Carbon: Modeling Arsenate Breakthrough with the Pore Surface Diffusion Model, Hristovski, K., Westerhoff, P. Crittenden, J. Separation Science and Technology, 43:11,3154-3167 (2008)
Quantification of C60 Fullerene Concentrations in Water, Chen, Z., Westerhoff, P., Herckes, P., Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 27:9:1852-1859 (2008)
“An Approach for Evaluating Nanomaterials for Use as Packed Bed Adsorber Media: A Case Study of Arsenate Removal by Titanate Nanofibers” Hristovski, K., Westerhoff, P., Crittenden, J., Journal of Hazardous Materials, 156:604-611 (2008)
Effect of synthesis conditions on nano-iron (hydr)oxide impregnated granulated activated carbon, K.Hristovski, P. Westerhoff, T. Moller, P. Sylvester, Chemical Engineering Journal, 146:237-243 (2009).
Hristovski, K., Nguyen, H., Westerhoff, P. Removal of arsenate and 17α- ethinyl estradiol (EE2) by iron (hydr) oxide modified activated carbon fibers, J. Environ. Sci. Health, Part A. Vol. A44, No.4, 354-361 (2009).
Nitrosamine, Dimethylnitramine, and Chloropicrin Formation during Strong Base Anion-Exchange Treatment, Kemper, J.M., Westerhoff, P., Dotson, A., Mitch W., Environmental Science and Technology, 43:2:466-472 (2009).
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