Project Manager Quality
Resume:
Amanda Palumbo
Email: **************@*****.***
Address: *** ******* ******, *** **, Davis, CA 95616
Mobile: 530-***-****
Citizenship: USA
OBJECTIVE
Environmental scientist position, with a focus on contaminants in the aquatic environment
SKILLS
Expertise: Aquatic toxicology, environmental fate of contaminants, water quality criteria derivation
Writing: Able to write clearly and concisely resulting in 6 first author publications, abstracts accepted to
national conferences, compliance with lab safety and animal use protocol requirements
Computing: Proficient in Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, and internet applications
Laboratory techniques:
Toxicity testing: using rice plants, algae, saltwater and marine fish (fish handling, husbandry, injection,
blood draw, and dissection, in accordance with Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee Standards)
Quantitative analysis: enzyme linked-immunosorbent assay (ELISA), gas chromatography, mass
spectrometry, method validation
Biochemistry techniques: gel electrophoresis, Western blotting, column chromatography, EROD assay
Sterile techniques for microbiology
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, 2/2008
Advisor: Ron Tjeerdema, Chair Department of Environmental Toxicology
Dissertation: Vitellogenin, A Marker of Estrogen Mimicking Contaminants in Fishes: Characterization,
Quantification and Interference by Anti-Estrogens. GPA 3.53 / 4.0
B.S., Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, 6/2001
magna cum laude and with distinction (thesis), GPA 3.66 / 4.0
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Fellow: Scion, New Zealand Forest Research Institute, Green Processing Team, Rotorua, New
Zealand. 11/2009-11/2011
Designed and conducted experiments on the use of microorganisms to remove metals from wastewater
Demonstrated a bench-scale bioreactor that removed 91% of the Zn in the wastewater influent
Showed pH was a key parameter for maximum Zn biosorption
Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Assistant: UC Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis,
CA, USA. Advisor: Ron Tjeerdema. 4/2007-8/2009
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Coauthored method to derive pesticide water quality criteria, enabling the regional water quality
agency to set objectives for pesticides in cases where there were existing no criteria
Defended technical aspects of method during public review, in writing and a public oral presentation
Lead author of diazinon and bifenthrin water quality criteria, supervised the writing of 2 more reports
Project manager: wrote quarterly progress reports, budgeted, hired and trained new personnel
Routinely reviewed the quality of toxicity studies
Project contracted with the California Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Doctoral Research: UC Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, CA, USA. 3/2003-2/2008
Conceived and developed research investigating effect of binary mixture of chemicals with opposing
mechanisms: chemicals with estrogenic and anti-estrogenic effects
Optimized and validated analytical methods for measuring protein of interest
Developed bioassay for studying endocrine disruption in California flatfish and white sturgeon
Research Assistant: UC Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, CA, USA. 9/2001-3/2003
Investigated degradation and fate of an herbicide used on rice fields and its toxicity to rice, resulting a
publication
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant: UC Davis, Departments of Chemistry and Environmental Toxicology, 4/2003-6/2007
General chemistry and introductory environmental toxicology, 6 quarters, 4 different courses
Taught lab sections - conveyed main scientific, technical, and safety concepts of each experiment
Taught a career discovery course: mentored freshmen, organized career related field trips, seminars
and a career speed dating event for students
PUBLICATIONS
Palumbo AJ, Taylor SC, Addison SL, Slade AH, Chris N. Glover CN (2012 in press) Metal biosorption in
lignocellulosic biofuel biorefinery effluent: an initial step towards sustainability of water resources. J Ind
Microbio Biotechnol
Palumbo AJ, TenBrook PL, Fojut TL, Faria IR, Tjeerdema RS (2012 in press) Aquatic Life Water Quality
Criteria Derived via the UC Davis Method I. Organophosphate Insecticides. Rev Environ Contam
Toxicol
Fojut TJ, Palumbo AJ, Tjeerdema RS (2012 in press) Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria Derived via the UC
Davis Method II. Pyrethroid Insecticides. Rev Environ Contam Toxicol
Fojut TJ, Palumbo AJ, Tjeerdema RS (2012 in press) Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria Derived via the UC
Davis Method III. Diuron. Rev Environ Contam Toxicol
TenBrook PL, Palumbo AJ, Fojut TL, Hann P, Karkoski J, Tjeerdema RS (2010) The University of California-
Davis Methodology for Deriving Aquatic Life Pesticide Water Quality Criteria. Rev Environ Contam
Toxicol, 209: 1-155
Palumbo AJ, Denison MS, Dorshov SI, Tjeerdema RS (2009). Reduction of Vitellogenin Synthesis by an Aryl
Hydrocarbon Receptor Agonist in the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontamus). Environ Toxicol
Chem 28: 1749-1755
Palumbo AJ, Koivunen M, Tjeerdema RS (2009). Optimization and validation of a California halibut
environmental estrogen bioassay using a heterologous ELISA. Sci Total Environ 407: 953-961
Palumbo AJ, Linares-Casenave J, Jewell W, Doroshov SI, Tjeerdema RS (2007). Induction and partial
characterization of California halibut (Paralichthys californicus) vitellogenin. Comp Biochem Physiol A
Mol Integr Physiol 146: 200-7
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Palumbo AJ, TenBrook PL, Phipps A, Tjeerdema RS (2004). Comparative Toxicity of Thiobencarb and
Deschlorothiobencarb to Rice (Oryza sativa). Bulletin Environ Contamin Toxicol 73: 213-218
HONORS
Postdoctoral Travel Award, UC Davis Postdoctoral Association (2008)
Second and Third Place Student Poster Presentation, Northern California Society of Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting (2006, 2007)
Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Scholarship, UC Davis (2005, 2006)
University Fellowship, UC Davis (2001)
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