I'm a research engineer at the University of Iowa, and I use R and RStudio to perform statistical analyses and develop mathematical models to try to understand the behavior of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other persistent organic pollutants in the environment, as well as in cell experiments. Visit my Google Schoolar to learn more about my research here.
Left photograph shows predicted air/water fluxes of total PCBs from IHSC and left plot shows the temporal distribution of airborne PCB11 in Chicago for 2009 [REFs: Martinez et al., (2002) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151505) and Martinez et al., (2019) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.10.048)].valdiman / pcb-reactive-transport-model Goto Github PK
View Code? Open in Web Editor NEWThe Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Reactive Transport Model produces simulations of congener-specific PCB concentration in the aqueous and gas phase of laboratory-scale bioreactors containing PCB-contaminated sediment slurry. The script uses experimental passive sampler measurements and a minimization of least squares procedure to fit congener-specific adsorption and desorption coefficients to the model. Finally, the model can simulate the reduction in volatile release of PCBs from sediment slurry to air resulting from the presence of an aerobic PCB-degrading microorganism with a known PCB biotransformation rate. This is part of Project 5 of the ISRP (https://iowasuperfund.uiowa.edu/)