Advisory Board and Editors Environmental Contamination & Remediation
Eduardo Pinilla-Gil
E. Pinilla-Gil is a professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain (department of Analytical Chemistry). He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry (1987) at the University of Extremadura, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1991) at the same university. The main topic of his research work is the development of analytical methods for the determination of pollutants in environmental samples, with a special focus on miniaturization and portability of electroanalytical instruments for pollution monitoring. He is also interested in novel environmental sampling techniques, sample pretreatment techniques, and pollution impact assessment.
Beth Polidoro
Beth Polidoro is an Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Marine Conservation, as well as serving as the Deputy Director for the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes at Arizona State University. Her primary research interests are in risk assessment and applied toxicology within the context of marine and freshwater biodiversity conservation, human health, and sustainable development. Dr. Polidoro has a broad background in the marine, chemical and environmental sciences. Before to coming to Arizona State University, she was a senior research associate with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where she worked with scientists around the globe to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic threats on more than 20,000 marine species, for inclusion on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. She currently works on various marine and freshwater conservation initiatives and both ecological and human health risk assessments in the United States, Latin America, Africa and Oceania.
Alexandre J Poulain
Alexandre Poulain received his PhD in Biology from Université de Montréal (Canada), his MSc in aquatic toxicology and biogeochemistry from the INRS-Eau, Terre et Environnement from Quebec City (Canada) and his BSc in Environmental Sciences from Université d’Angers (France). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) where he learned about geobiology. His research investigates with how microbes control the mobility and toxicity of toxic metal(old)s in temperate and arctic environments.
Albert A Presto
I am an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of CMU's Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS). My research focuses on pollutant emissions from energy extraction and consumption and the subsequent atmospheric transformations that these emissions undergo. Energy production and consumption is a major source of pollutants and greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Gas and oil wells emit methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Cars and trucks operating on gasoline and diesel fuels emit carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter. Particulate matter from mobile sources is largely the result of incomplete or inefficient combustion in the form of organic aerosol and carbon soot. In addition to the direct emissions of pollutants, dilute exhaust undergoes oxidation in the atmosphere. This oxidation chemistry can lead to the production of secondary pollutants, such as ozone and secondary particulate matter. We investigate the contributions of primary and secondary pollution with ambient measurements, laboratory experiments, source testing of pollution sources, and atmospheric models. This multi-pronged and multi-disciplinary approach allows for a holistic view of pollutant emissions and transformations in the atmosphere, and their impacts on human health.
Arnold Rakaj
Dr. Arnold Rakaj works at the Laboratory of Experimental Ecology and Aquaculture at the University of Rome Tor Vergata where is carrying out basic and applied research on marine invertebrates and their role in the benthic dynamics.
Rommel T J Ramos
The Rommel Ramos Professor of Bioinformatics of Federal University of Para (Brazil) affiliated member of Brazilian Science Academy and CNPq Researcher (level 1-D). Since 2008 works with genome assembly and RNA-Seq analysis, he is the leader of the bioinformatic development group of the Biologic Engineering Laboratory in Park of Science and Technology (Pará/Brazil).
Timothy O. Randhir
Dr. Timothy O. Randhir is a Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Randhir received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1995 and did post-doctoral work at Purdue University before joining the University of Massachusetts as a faculty member. He has a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences from Annamalai University and a Master's degree in Agricultural Economics from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Dr. Randhir is a consultant to the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the American Association of Advancement of Sciences, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture. In addition, he serves as Editor of three international journals in earth systems, climate change, watershed science, ecological economics, and computational environmental sciences. His publications include a book on Watershed Management, several book chapters, more than 110 refereed articles in top international journals, and several professional conference presentations. His research extends worldwide, including Honduras, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, eSwatini, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Kirghizstan, Uganda, Turkey, Iran, Russia, China, India, and Indonesia. He is the President of the Southern New England Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.
Helen M Roe
Dr Helen Roe is a Reader in Physical Geography in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast. She received her PhD (Quaternary palaeoecology) from the University of Cambridge.
Her research interests centre around the reconstruction of late Quaternary environmental change in wetlands and coastal environments. Major research foci include (i) applications of benthic protozoans (e.g. testate amoebae and foraminifera) and diatoms in biomonitoring and restoration; (ii) the use of palaeoecological, palaeolimnological and geochemical approaches for understanding long-term climate and sea-level change; iii) use of quantitative, multi-proxy techniques to aid palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.
She is an Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and a Co-Director of the Queen's University Centre of Canadian Studies.
Maria J. Sanz
Professor Sanz is the Scientific Director of the Basque Centre of Climate Change. Her own research agenda focuses on effective land use decisions, the optimal allocation of land resources for sustainable and efficient development.
She was at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as the UNREDD Programme Coordinator (2012-2016), Director of the International Institute for Climate Change (I2C2, 2011-2012) and a Senior Officer at the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) supporting Land Use, land Use Change and Forestry, Agriculture and REDD+ negotiations up to 2007-2011.
Before 2007, she was Director of the Air Pollution Effects and Atmospheric Chemistry Programmes at the Center for Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean, and adviser to the Spanish Minister of Environment. She was a Lead Author of Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, and Lead Author of the IPCC Methodological Guidance documents since 2003.
She holds a PhD in Biology by the University of Valencia, and worked extensively in Air Pollution, Carbon Cycles and Climate Change feed-backs in the Mediterranean Regions after she ended her post-Doctoral studies at the Arizona State University.
Timothy D Scheibe
Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Lead Scientist at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a scientific user facility located at PNNL. Research interests emphasize coupled hydrologic and biogeochemical processes as they control water quality, ecosystem health, and contaminant transport and fate. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to perform integrated computational and experimental research across a wide range of physical scales from molecules and cells to aquifers and watersheds. Was selected by the National Ground Water Association to serve as the 2010 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer, in which role he presented 65 invited lectures across North America and Europe.
Venkatramanan Senapathi
Dr. Venkatramanan Senapathi, Assistant Professor in Department of Geology at National College, India. Former, Postdoc (Brain Korea BK21) at Pukyong National University in South Korea. Previous, Research faculty at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam.
His publications include more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and a Google Scholar H-index of 37. His research interests includes: Environmental Geochemistry, Hydrogeological Processes, Sediment dynamics, Remote sensing and GIS, Environmental Toxins. Microplastics
Ahmet Tansel Serim
Dr. Ahmet Tansel Serim is an Associate Professor at Bilecik Seyh Edebali University. Turkey. He completed his B.Sc. in Plant Protection at Ankara University in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Weed Science at Ankara University in 2010.
Dr. Serim has worked at the Plant Protection Central Research Institute as an agricultural engineer, Directorate of Testing Agricultural Machinery and Tools, and General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policy. He has also been a visiting researcher at Tuscia University, researching sustainable soil and water management.
Dr. Serim's research interests include weed science, weed biology and ecology, weed management strategies, herbicides, herbicide resistance, integrated weed management, rare arable weeds, weed suppression, allelopathy, cropping systems, population dynamics, carryover of herbicides, water stress-effects on crops and selectivity of herbicides.