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I study environmental molecular science. In a nutshell, that means I think about how chemical, biological and physical processes occur at the scale of atoms and molecules, and how those small things influence the big things that we care about, for example, how chemical processes affect water quality, soil fertility and pollution, and nutrient uptake. We have active projects examining arsenic, tungsten and other trace elements in soils and groundwater, and also examine how iron is utilized in the ocean. Our hope is to do more than understand how these processes occur, but also think about how to use them to address and solve environmental issues.A second and emerging focus of our research group is how to scale local geochemical observations to the landscape and larger scales. These approaches involve a foundation of As many environmental measurements as possible, conceptual and computational models and machine learning, and statistics. This scaling is directly relevant to public health in that they allow us better to understand environmental exposures, to mitigation and engineering solutions to environmental problems, and to developing sound predictions of future water, soil and air quality. Scaling, and detailed mechanistic insight demands significant numbers of measurements. To address this need, we have a number of projects that take advantage of higher throughout analysis. Sampling the environment though demands dense measurements over time and space. Community-centered science and dual discovery is an exceptional way to do so, and helps provide everyone the chance to contribute to the science. We are involved in many international projects, and have current active research projects and collaborations on several continents and countries, most significantly Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, Australia, Antarctica, Argentine Patagonia, and the United States. We also projects in the United States, primarily locally in my NYC community, at Superfund sites and Tribal communities.

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