Lifetime Achievement
University's Di Toro honored for environmental research
8:08 a.m., Nov. 17, 2015--Dominic Di Toro, the Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences Foundation.
The award was presented at the Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy, held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from Oct. 19-22. The award recognizes individuals who have shown significant contributions to the field as well as outstanding environmental stewardship.
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Di Toro was elected to the National Academy of Engineers in 2005 for leadership in the development and application of mathematical models for establishing water-quality criteria and making management decisions.
He has specialized in the development and application of mathematical and statistical models to stream, lake, estuarine and coastal water and sediment quality problems.
His latest research focuses on developing mechanistic models of metal and organic chemical partitioning and toxicity that can make predictions from the molecular structure only. These methods are required for the evaluation of new chemicals that are being reviewed by regulatory agencies and by chemical companies as they pursue the development of more environmentally benign products.
Di Toro has participated as expert consultant, principal investigator and project manager on numerous water quality studies for industry, research foundations and governmental agencies, and he has published more than one hundred technical papers, as well as a book, Sediment Flux Modeling, published by J. Wiley & Sons.
He earned his doctorate in civil and geological engineering from Princeton University. He joined the faculty at the University of Delaware in 2003.
Article by Diane Kukich