Itza Mendoza-Sanchez
Assistant Professor, Public Health
Research Interests: Mathematical and experimental models for assessing transport, transformation and persistence of contaminants in the environment; Organics trapped and sorbed in soils as a source zone of groundwater contamination; Physical and biological factors that control bioremediation of contaminated plumes in groundwater; Water balance modeling to quantify ground water - surface water interactions; Emerging contaminants, specifically evaluating the persistence of heavy-metals in mining environments and predicting antibiotics transport in soils
