PROFESSIONAL
Elena is a data scientist currently specializing in complex data management and informatics for human health and ecological risk assessments in the environmental remediation industry. She currently works for AECOM as a Scientist in Toxicology and Remediation. She also loves Linux and promotes open source/open data initiatives and products.
SELECT DUTIES
• Provide data management and quantitative analysis of environmental chemical pollutants in groundwater, soil, sediment, and soil vapor for environmental investigations and remediation operations
• Conduct advanced statistical analysis of left-censored chemistry data using NADA R package
• Perform verification and validation of organic and inorganic analytical chemistry data against established criteria set by federal, state, and local environmental regulatory agencies
• Projects include Superfund remediation, NEPA/EIS, energy, mining, U.S. DoD military operations, power transmission, and transportation for both private and public sectors
• Manage, access, and mine enterprise-level databases (e.g., EQuIS, ERPIMs, SQL Server)
• Provide data deliverables, technical reports, and report-writing support by generating appropriate graphs, charts, and tables
• Member of Information Management Solutions Group
• AECOM Professional Technical Reviewer - Statistical Analysis
• Software and Languages: Earthsoft EQuIS, MS Access, SQL Server, R, Python, MS Excel
SELECT PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Linux, UNIX-like (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian)
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS
PROGRAMMING AND MARKUP LANGUAGES
R, SQL, Python, Bash, HTML, CSS, Unix Tools and Utilities/Command Line Operations
DATABASES AND OFFICE APPLICATIONS
MS SQL Server Studio, Earthsoft EQuIS, Microsoft Access, MS Excel, Sharepoint, Google Docs
REVISION CONTROL SYSTEMS (document and source code management)
Git/Github, Mercurial/Bitbucket
STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE
R/RStudio, SPSS
MAPPING APPLICATIONS
QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Products
DIGITAL CAMPAIGNS DATA AND REPORTING, DIGITAL MOBILIZATION AND MARKETING
Google Analytics, Google Ads, Social Media, Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio), SquareSpace, MailChimp, and many more
PUBLISHED PAPERS WITH COLLABORATORS
Viers, J.H., Liptzin, D., Rosenstock, T.S., Jensen, V.B., Hollander, A.D., McNally, A., King, A.M., Kourakos, G., Lopez, E.M., De La Mora, N., Fryjoff-Hung, A., Dzurella, K.N., Canada, H.E., Laybourne, S., McKenney, C., Darby, J., Quinn, J.F. & Harter, T. 2012. Nitrogen Sources and Loading to Groundwater. Technical Report 2 in: Addressing Nitrate in California’s Drinking Water with a Focus on Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley Groundwater. Report for the State Water Resources Control Board Report to the Legislature. Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis. http://groundwaternitrate.ucdavis.edu.
Vajda, A.M., Barber, L.B., Gray, J., Lopez, E.M., Bolden, A.M., Schoenfuss, H.L., Norris, D.O. 2011. Demasculinization of male fish by wastewater treatment plant effluent. Aquat Toxicol: 103(3-4):213-21.
Vajda, A.M., Barber, L.B., Gray, J., Lopez, E.M., Woodling, J.D., Norris, D.O. 2008. Reproductive disruption in fish downstream from an estrogenic wastewater effluent. Environ Sci Technol: 42(9):3407-14.
Woodling, J.D., Lopez, E.M., Maldonado, T.A., Norris, D.O., Vajda, A.M. 2006. Intersex and other reproductive disruption of fish in wastewater effluent dominated Colorado streams. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol: 144(1):10-5.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS WITH COLLABORATORS
Vajda, A., Barber, L., Gray, J., Lopez, E., Woodling, J., Norris, D.O. 2005. Intersex and other forms of reproductive disruption in fishes downstram of a Colorado wastewater treatment plant effluent. In: 26th annual North American SETAC meeting abstracts.
Vajda, A.M., Lopez, E.M., Woodling, J.D., Maldonado, T.A., and Norris, D.O. 2005. Reproductive disruption and intersex in white suckers (Catostomus commersoni) downstream of a Colorado wastewater treatment plant. In: 2005 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting abstracts.
Vajda, A., Lopez, E., Woodling, J., Maldonado, T., and Norris, D.O. 2004. Intersex and reproductive disruption in white suckers (Catostomus commersoni) downstream of Colorado wastewater treatment plants. In: 25th annual North American SETAC meeting abstracts.
Lopez, E.M. and Norris, D.O. 2002. The actions of methoprene acid on a developing urodele. Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science: 36, 5.
Lopez, E.M. and Norris, D.O. 2002. Actions of methoprene acid on developmental stability in a urodele amphibian, Ambystoma mexicanum. In: 23rd annual North American SETAC meeting abstracts.