Christopher+Olivares

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Overview
Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate in environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona. I am originally from Mexico City, where my life-long engagement with environmental research and science sparked after cancelled recesses due to high air pollution indices and listening to radio news reports on global environmental crises and successes, such as the ozone layer depletion and the international mitigation efforts. My passion for the environment and cultures, has guided me to pursue my higher education in environmental/chemical engineering and also in French literature and culture. My current work focuses on coupling environmental fate and biotransformation of nitroaromatic pollutants with their toxicology implications to better characterize the potential risk hazard to local communities and ecosystems. I am committed to science communication and outreach by helping develop and improve access educational materials to communities facing environmental issues and writing for non-specialized audiences.

//My long-term vision is to become a professor at a research university in order to tackle global and local environmental issues from a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective and to help student engage with environmental engineering and science. // ||

Research interests

 * Environmental fate of organic and inorganic pollutants
 * Microbial Toxicity
 * Ecotoxicology
 * Environmental Chemistry
 * Climate change and microbial carbon and nitrogen fluxes

Current Research

 * [|(Bio)transformation of 2,4-dinitroanisole (DNAN) in aerobic and anaerobic wastewater sludge.]
 * (Bio)transformation of DNAN in soil solutions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14C-labelled DNAN environmental fate studies in soil solutions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Microbial toxicity of DNAN and its transformation products to key anaerobic and aerobic microbial populations]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Biodegradation of 3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO) by soil bacterial communities]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Continued (bio)transformation of n-methyl-p-nitroaniline (MNA) by anaerobic wastewater sludge and toxicity to methanogens
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ecotoxicity of DNAN and biotransformation products using a zebrafish embryos
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ecotoxicity of III-V semiconductor ions, Ga(III), In(III), As(III) and As(V) using zebrafish embryos.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Previous Research

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Environmental fate of arsenic in bench-scale columns simulating mature landfill conditions.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As(III) and As(V) adsorption to vivianite.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Service

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ad hoc reviewer //Environmental Engineering Science//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UA Superfund Center - Tohono O'Odham Community College Mining Tribal Educational Modules Jan.-May 2014
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Co-chair 'Emerging contaminant and pollutant mixtures' session, Superfund Annual Meeting 2013, Louisiana State University Oct. 2013
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tucson, AZ Hazardous Household Waste Program Feb - Nov. 2012
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> AZ Water for People fundraiser – Tour de Tucson Nov. 2013

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Selected Awards, Fellowships, Honors

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Best Oral Presentation. University of Arizona Chemical and Environmental Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, 2014
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Water Sustainability Program Fellowship (Grant), 2014-2015
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NIH Superfund Research Program KC Donnelly Externship Supplement (Grant), 2014
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Southern Arizona Environmental Management Society Scholarship, 2014
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">EPA Superfund Trainee Program Fellowship University of Arizona 2012-2013, 2013-2014
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) Fellowship, 2011-2015
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">University of Arizona College of Engineering Fellowship, 2011-2012