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Karina Scurupa Machado

Environmental Engineering and Water Resources, Federal University of Parana, Brazil.

Biography

Dr Karina Scurupa Machado holds MD and PhD degrees (Environmental Engineering) from the Federal University of Parana, Brazil and spent one year at University of Liverpool, UK as a part of her PhD. Currently, she is a Temporary Lecturer at Federal University of Parana. She is Environmental Chemistry expertise and very actively involved in paleoenvironmental studies. She has been investigating lacustrine and riverine sedimentary records of climate and anthropogenic changes during the late Holocene. Her research interests include Environmental chemistry, Paleoenvironmental studies, Anthropogenic and Climate changes, Geochemistry.

Publications

Distribution and Characterization of Sex Hormones in Sediment and Removal Estimate by Sewage Treatment Plant in South Brazil

Sex hormones are a group of endocrine disruptors excreted by humans and animals. These compounds have been detected in surface waters and sewage treatment plant (STP), all over the word. Due their physicochemical properties significant amount is deposited in the sediment of surface waters acting as reservoirs able to contaminate the water column. A... Read More»

Karina Scurupa Machado, Julio Cesar R Azevedo, Maria Cristina Borba Braga, Paulo AL Ferreira and Rubens Figueira

Research Article: Environ Pollut Climate Change 2017, 1:2

DOI: 10.4172/2753-458X.1000115

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