Dr. Edward J. Bouwer
Dr. Edward J. Bouwer
Dr. Edward J. Bouwer earned his Ph.D. in environmental engineering and science from Stanford University, Stanford, CA in 1982. He is the Abel Wolman Professor of Environmental Engineering and Department Chair in the Geography and Environmental Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bouwer has extensive experience with drinking water and wastewater treatment processes, microbial process engineering, and contaminant transport and fate. Dr. Bouwer’s research interests encompasses factors that influence biotransformation of contaminants, bioremediation for control of contaminated soils and groundwaters, biofilm kinetics, biological processes design in wastewater, industrial, and drinking water treatment, transport and fate of microorganisms in porous media, and behavior of metals in contaminated sediments.
He has (co) authored over 150 refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and technical reports and serves on the managing editorial board for Biodegradation and on the editorial boards for J. Contaminant Hydrology and Environmental Engineering Science.
Dr. Bouwer is Director of the Center for Contaminant Transport, Fate, and Remediation and was Director for the recently completed EPA-funded Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC) that covered EPA Regions I, II, and III.
In his lecture, "The Illusion of Certainty: Health Benefits and Risks", Dr. Bouwer will try to peel away the "veneer of certainty" which many of us attach to health risk and benefit information given to us in our daily lives. The talk is designed primarily to assist the public in comprehending and interpreting the uncertainty associated with the overwhelming amount of information on environmental and medical health risks.
Audio and video recordings of this lecture are not yet available.
For more information, contact: Linda Keyte.
Distinguished Lecture Series