OmniTRAX/Broe Quest Series
Carl Pfaffenberger
Chief Environmental Monitoring
Department of Environmental Resources Management
Program Information
Dade County
Dr. Pfaffenberger received his PhD in organic chemistry from Purdue University in 1967 under the tutelage of Nobel Laureate Herbert C. Brown. He then served a year as visiting professor of chemistry at National Taiwan Normal University before returning to the United States. Carl then spent six years at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, developing and using high-resolution gas chromatographic/mass-spectrometric (gc/ms) techniques applied to the detection of small traces of industrial pollutants in human fluids. Next he served nine years at the University of Miami School of Medicine, studying the direct toxicity of exogenous compounds on humans. He rose through the ranks to fully tenured professor and became director of the pesticide toxicology laboratory at UM. In 1985 Dr. Pfaffenberger joined the Miami-Dade Department of Environmental Resources Management as the division chief of Environmental Monitoring. He now serves out of the DERM director’s office, and, following the current EPA guidelines, recently prepared cancer and non-cancer Risk Assessments based on 40 Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPS) commonly detected within Miami-Dade County air. He is a charter member of Miami-Dade’s Adaptation Task Force dealing with the possible impacts of Global Warming and is chairman of the Task Force’s Health Impacts Sub-Committee.
Carl Pfaffenberger can be reached at pfaffc@miamidade.gov