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Mendoza-Sanchez, Itza

Assistant Professor

Positions:

Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health

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itzamendoza@tamu.edu

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Itza Mendoza-Sanchez

ORCID

0000-0002-1498-8705

overview

My research background is in mathematical and experimental models for studying transport, transformation and persistence of contaminants in the environment. I have focused my research in three principal areas: 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, and water balance modeling to quantify ground water - surface water interactions. Currently, I am working with emerging contaminants, specifically evaluating the persistence of heavy-metals in mining environments and predicting antibiotics transport in soils.

education and training

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2007
M.S. in Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2002
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Instituto Politecnico Nacional - (Mexico City, Mexico) 2000

selected publications

Academic Articles14

Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Autenrieth, R. L., McDonald, T. J., & Cunningham, J. A. (2018). Biological Limitations of Dechlorination of cis-Dichloroethene during Transport in Porous Media. Environmental science & technology. 52(2), 684-691.
Bonasia, R., Areu-Rangel, O. S., Tolentino, D., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., GonzÃ¡lez-Cao, J., & Klapp, J. (2018). Flooding hazard assessment at Tulancingo (Hidalgo, Mexico). JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT. 11, S1116-S1124.
Yang, L., Wang, X., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., & Abriola, L. M. (2018). Modeling the influence of coupled mass transfer processes on mass flux downgradient of heterogeneous DNAPL source zones. J Contam Hydrol. 211, 1-14.
Xue, Y., Lu, S., Fu, X., Sharma, V. K., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Qiu, Z., & Sui, Q. (2018). Simultaneous removal of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX) by CaO2 based Fenton system: Enhanced degradation by chelating agents. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 331, 255-264.
Liu, J., Qu, R., Wang, Z., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., & Sharma, V. K. (2017). Thermal- and photo-induced degradation of perfluorinated carboxylic acids: Kinetics and mechanism. Water Research. 126, 12-18.

Chapters1

Areu-Rangel, O. S., Tolentino, D., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Alvarado-Rodriguez, C. E., Klapp, J., & Bonasia, R. (2016). Numerical Simulations of a Dam Overflowing. Case Study: \"La Esperanza\" Dam in Hidalgo, Mexico. Implications for Risk Evaluation. COMPUTER-AIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: THE NEXT CITY - NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE FUTURE OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, CAAD FUTURES 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science. (pp. 285-295). Springer International Publishing.