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The academic year has just begun! We've welcomed a new group of Superfund Trainees and are excited to see what great things our center will do this year. Find out below all that's happened this summer.
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Awards, Honors & Recognitions
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Dr. Maier and Dr. Chief Receive Outstanding Women In Research & Innovation Award
UA SRC Director Dr. Raina Maier and Community Engagement Core PI Dr. Karletta Chief were selected to receive "Women of Impact Awards" from the University of Arizona’s Office of Research, Innovation & Impact during Women’s History Month. Read more
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NIEHS Highlights Dr. Karletta Chief on Partnering with Tribal Communities to Protect Water from Pollution and Climate Change
Dr. Karletta Chief, Community Engagement Core lead for the University of Arizona Superfund Research Center (UA SRC), is working to understand and address impacts on tribal water sources from both environmental contamination and climate change. Read more
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Dr. Paul Carini Receives Simons Early Career Investigator Award
Dr. Paul Carini, investigator for University of Arizona Superfund Research Center (UA SRC) Project 3, just received the Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award from the Simons Foundation. Read more
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GlycoSurf Receives Innovation Award for Sustainability!
Glycosurf, founded by UA SRC Director, Dr. Raina Maier, in collaboration with UArizona researchers Dr. Cliff Coss and Dr. Jeanne Pemberton, received the 2022 Utah Innovation Award for Sustainability for its work in the recovery of rare earth elements and other critical metals from aqueous mining waste streams using green glycolipid surfactants. Read more
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Meetings, Conferences & Workshops
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Kelsey Graves wins SME Environmental Division Outstanding Presentation Award
Kelsey Graves, undergraduate Research Assistant in the Department of Environmental Science, working in UA SRC Project 5 under the direction of Dr. Julia Neilson and Dr. Raina Maier, won the SME Environmental Division Outstanding Presentation Award for her oral presentation at the SME Annual meeting. Read more
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Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta co-hosts soilSHOP in Superior, Arizona
In June, a group of academic, government, and community organizations conducted a soilSHOP for the residents of Superior, Ariz., an event spearheaded by UA SRC Research Translation Core PI, Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, and coordinated by master’s student Alex Trahan. Read more
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UA SRC Director Raina Maier Presents during an IN-PART Global Challenges Webinar
UA SRC Director Raina Maier presented in a panel discussion and live Q&A session as part of an IN-PART Global Challenges webinar to discuss how the industry-academia community can come together to solve critical water pollution challenges. Read more
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Dr. Paul Carini Funded to Investigate RNA Stability in Desiccated Soil Bacteria
Dr. Paul Carini, Co-Investigator of Project 3, was recently awarded $1,466,520 from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program for his proposal, “Just Add Water? Investigating RNA Stability in Desiccated Soil Bacteria.” Read more
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Dr. Jon Chorover Receives NSF Funding to Investigate Silicate Weathering Systems
Dr. Jon Chorover, Project 4 Principal Investigator (PI), received an NSF award of $466,484 (UA portion) for the proposal, “Collaborative Research: Concentration - Ratio - Discharge (C-R-Q) Relationships of Transient Water-Age Distributions.” Read more
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Dr. Hogan and Dr. Maier Receive Grant to Study Use of Green Glycolipid Surfactants
UA SRC researchers Dr. David Hogan and Director Dr. Raina Maier have won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to investigate “Bioinspired Green Glycolipids as Fugitive Dust Mitigation Agents.” Read more
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Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta Receives Funding to Investigate the Effects of Wildfires and Flash Floods
Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Research Translation Lead Investigator for the UA SRC, just received funding from two different sources to investigate the effects and aftermath of wildfires and flash floods. Read more
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Dr. Karletta Chief and Team Tackling Water Quality Challenges and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation
Dr. Karletta Chief, Community Engagement Core lead for the University of Arizona Superfund Research Center (UA SRC), published an article in the January/February 2022 issue of Water Resources IMPACT Magazine which recounts the efforts of a team of experts and students to create a useable database of water quality data in the Navajo Nation. Read more
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Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta Building a Culture of Health and Action
Dr. Monica Ramírez-Andreotta, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Research Translation Lead Investigator for the UA SRC, received an NIH-National Institute of General Medical Sciences Science Education Partnership Award (Award # R25GM146227) titled "Building a culture of health in the green: Participatory learning and action to address air and soil quality in rural underserved communities”. Read more
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Sarrah Hannon Receives NIEHS F13 Training Grant
Sarrah Hannon, UA SRC Trainee working with Dr. Xinxin Ding in Project 2, received an NIEHS Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity (F31) training grant! This award provides up to five years of support for research training of predoctoral students from diverse backgrounds leading to the Ph.D. or equivalent research degree in the biomedical, behavioral, health services, or clinical sciences. Read more
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Recent Publications
- Huang D, Khan NA, Wang G, Carroll KC, Brusseau ML. The Co-Transport of PFAS and Cr(VI) in porous media. Chemosphere. 2022 Jan;286(Pt 3):131834. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131834. Epub 2021 Aug 7. PMID: 34392202; PMCID: PMC8634893.
- Huang D, Saleem H, Guo B, Brusseau ML. The impact of multiple-component PFAS solutions on fluid-fluid interfacial adsorption and transport of PFOS in unsaturated porous media. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Feb 1;806(Pt 2):150595. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150595. Epub 2021 Sep 28. PMID: 34592291; PMCID: PMC8633151.
- Johnson GR, Brusseau ML, Carroll KC, Tick GR, Duncan CM. Global distributions, source-type dependencies, and concentration ranges of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in groundwater. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Oct 1;841:156602. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156602. Epub 2022 Jun 9. PMID: 35690215.
- Luo J, Maier RM, Yu D, Liu B, Zhu N, Amy GL, Crittenden JC. Double-Network Hydrogel: A Potential Practical Adsorbent for Critical Metals Extraction and Recovery from Water. Environ Sci Technol. 2022 Apr 19;56(8):4715-4717. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01298. Epub 2022 Mar 31. PubMed PMID: 35357826.
- Lyu Y, Wang B, Du X, Guo B, Brusseau ML. Air-water interfacial adsorption of C4-C10 perfluorocarboxylic acids during transport in unsaturated porous media. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Jul 20;831:154905. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154905. Epub 2022 Mar 30. PMID: 35364184.
- Yan N, Guo Z, Brusseau ML. Sucralose as an oxidative-attenuation tracer for characterizing the application of in situ chemical oxidation for the treatment of 1,4-dioxane. Environ Sci Process Impacts. 2022 Aug 17;24(8):1165-1172. doi: 10.1039/d2em00185c. PMID: 35796164.
- Zhang Y, Brusseau ML, Neupauer RM, Wei W. General Backward Model to Identify the Source for Contaminants Undergoing Non-Fickian Diffusion in Water. Environ Sci Technol. 2022 Aug 2;56(15):10743-10753. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01873. Epub 2022 Jul 25. PMID: 35875912.
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