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Mendoza-Sanchez, Itza

Assistant Professor

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

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itzamendoza@tamu.edu

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Itza Mendoza-Sanchez

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0000-0002-1498-8705

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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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 Articles15

Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Uwak, I., Myatt, L., Van Cleve, A., Pulczinski, J. C., Rychlik, K. A., ... Johnson, N. M. (2022). Maternal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in South Texas, evaluation of silicone wristbands as personal passive samplers.. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 32(2), 280-288.
Prez-Garca, D., Larios-Serrato, V., Rojas-Rios, R., Otero-Olarra, J. E., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Curiel-Quesada, E., & Prez-Valdespino, A. (2021). Frequency and diversity of small plasmids in mesophilic Aeromonas isolates from fish, water and sediment.. Plasmid. 102607.
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.
Bonasia, R., Areu-Rangel, O. S., Tolentino, D., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Gonzlez-Cao, J., & Klapp, J. (2018). Flooding hazard assessment at Tulancingo (Hidalgo, Mexico). Journal of Flood Risk Management. 11(S2), S1116-S1124.

SDG 13
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.. Environ Sci Technol. 52(2), 684-691.

Chapters1

Areu-Rangel, O. S., Tolentino, D., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Alvarado-Rodrguez, 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. OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS, ICORES 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 285-295. Springer International Publishing.

Conference Papers5

Ahmed, B., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Khardon, R., Abriola, L., & Miller, E. L. (2012). A mixture of experts based discretization approach for characterizing subsurface contaminant source zones. 2012 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 2012 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP). 17-20.
Ahmed, B., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Khardon, R., Abriola, L., & Miller, E. L. (2012). A discriminative-generative approach to the characterization of subsurface contaminant source zones. 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 1, 614-617.
Aghasi, A., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Abriola, L., & Miller, E. L. (2012). Joint electrical and hydrological inversion for reconstruction of subsurface contaminant source zones. 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 7059-7062.
Zhang, H., Mendoza-Sanchez, I., Abriola, L., & Miller, E. L. (2012). Manifold regression for subsurface contaminant characterization. 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 1, 2186-2189.
Mendoza Sanchez, I., & Cunningham, J. (2011). Efficient algorithms for modeling the transport and biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes in groundwater. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 242,