Itza Mendoza-Sanchez Assistant Professor, Texas A&M School of Public Health EDUCATION AND TRAINING Texas A&M University, PhD, Civil Engineering (Environmental) Texas A&M University, MS, Civil Engineering (Water Resources) Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, BS, Civil Engineering RESEARCH INTERESTS Mathematical and experimental models for assessing transport, transformation and persistence of contaminants in the environment. 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. Water balance modeling to quantify ground water–surface water interactions. Emerging contaminants, specifically evaluating the persistence of heavy-metals in mining environments and predicting antibiotics transport in soils.