Environmental Organic Chemistry Lab

University of California Riverside

  Laura Delgado-Moreno
Post-doctoral Researcher
Science Labs 1 Bldg. Room 211
p: 951.827.2692
f: 951.827.3993
   
       
  Educational Background    
  Ph.D. Environmental Sciences Granada University (Spain) 2007  
  B.S. Environmental Studies Granada University (Spain) 2000  
       
  Research Interests    
       

Fate of organic contaminants in the environment

 
 

Organic mater implication on the environmental behavior of pesticides and emerging contaminants in soils, sediments and water

 
 

Bioremediaton practices of pesticides.

 
 

Water quality and chemistry

   
       
Publications
       

Delgado-Moreno, L., Wu, L., Gan, J. Effect of dissolved organic matter on sorption of pyrethroids to sediments. Environmental Science and Technology. 2010, 44, 8473-8478.

 
 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Peña, A., Almendros, G. Contribution by different organic fractions to triazines sorption in Calcaric Regosol amended with raw and biotransformed olive cake. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2010, 174, 93-99.

 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Peña, A., Mingorance, M.D. Design of experiments in environmental chemistry studies: Example of the extraction of triazines from soil after olive cake amendment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2009, 162, 1121-1128.

 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Peña, A.  Compost and vermicompost of olive cake to bioremediate triazines-contaminated soil. Science of the Total Environment. 2009, 407, 1489-1495.

 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Peña, A. Sorption/desorption behaviour of sulfonylurea herbicides as affected by the addition of fresh and composted olive cake to soil. Weed research. 2008, 48, 461-469.

 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Peña, A.  Organic amendments from olive cake as a strategy to modify the degradation of sulfonylurea herbicides in soil. Journal of Agriculture Food Chemistry. 2007, 55, 6213-6218.

 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Sánchez Moreno, L., Peña, A.  Assessment of olive cake as soil amendment for the controlled release of triazine herbicides. Science of the Total Environment. 2007, 378, 119-123.

 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Sánchez, L., Castillo, A., Pot, V., Peña, A.  Behaviour of bensulfuron-methyl in an agricultural alkaline soil. Use of metallic samplers. Journal of Environmental Science and Health B.

 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Almendros, G., Peña, A.  Raw or incubated olive-mill wastes and its biotransformed products as agricultural soil amendments: Effect on sorption-desorption of triazine herbicides. Journal of Agriculture Food Chemistry. 2007, 55, 836-843. 

 

Vincent, A., Benoit, P., Pot, V., Madrigal, I., Delgado-Moreno, L., Labat, C.  Impact of different land uses on the migration of two herbicides in a silt loam soil: unsaturated soil column displacement studies. European Journal and Soil Science. 2007, 58, 320-328.

 
       
  Selected Presentations    
       
 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Bondarenko, S., Gan, J. The role of disolved organic matter on sorption of hydrophobic pesticides such as pyrethroids. SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting. 2010, Sevilla, Spain. Oral presentation.

 
 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Wu, L., Gan, J. Evaluation of new adsorbents for removing pesticides from agricultural water. SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting. 2010, Sevilla, Spain. Poster presentation.

 
 

Delgado-Moreno, L., Lin, K., Ernst, F., Smith, W., Veiga Nacimiento, R., Gan, J. Survey of replacement pesticides in Ventura County watersheds. 239th ACS National Meeting. American Chemical Society (ACS). 2010, San Francisco. Poster presentation.

 
 

Delgado-Moreno, L. Effects of organic amendments on herbicide behaviors in soil. 238th ACS National Meeting. American Chemical Society (ACS). 2009, Washington, D.C. Oral Presentation.