Steven Safferman

BS in civil engineering and a MS and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. Professional engineer in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. Past career positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a tenured associate professor at the University of Dayton, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. More recently, a tenured associate professor, extension specialist, and Department graduate program director at Michigan State University, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. Consulting experience, primarily on the design and evaluation of unique wastewater treatment systems and the development of related professional training modules.

Experience and interest in the design, evaluation, and the development of decision support tools relating to the following.

• Domestic and industrial wastewater treatment. 
• Waste to resource technologies, with an emphasis on anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis.
• Fate and transport of land applied nutrients, especially in agricultural systems and relating to retaining phosphorus and nitrogen in the root zone.
• Phosphorus circular economy, with an emphasis on recovery using adsorption. 
• Carbon management associated with organic waste and its conversion to biochar and renewable energy.
• Hazardous waste site remediation treatability studies and the development of feasibility studies.
• Infrastructure management using streamlined and standardized systems approaches.