Efrain Vizuete
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Mail code: 3005Campus: Tempe
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Efrain Vizuete is the Laboratory Manager for the Center of Hydrologic Innovations. He is responsible WCPH Lab 130 and 430, the maintenance of all laboratory and field assets. Efrain coordinates field visits, field deployment of flux towers, meteorological stations and calibration equipment and sensors. He support faculty and students from the School of Sustainable Engineering in different projects.
Efrain is actively supporting the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona, SW Integrated Field Laboratory, CAP LTER and Jornada LTER participating in project meetings, with field visits, maintenance and data retrieval from EC towers and meteorological stations.
Background:
Efrain graduated from Equinoctial Technological University of Ecuador (UTE), with a bachelor's degree of Environmental Engineer. After graduation Efrain was awarder a scholarship from the Mexican National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (CONAHCYT) to pursue a Masters's Degree in Natural Resources (2015-2017) and then a Ph.D in Engineering Sciences (2018-2022) in the Sonora Technological Institute (ITSON). During his graduate studies, Efrain was working as assistant professor teaching Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, in undergraduate level, ITSON-ICA, 01/2017 – 12/2022. Efrain also was working as a laboratory manager in the Environmental modeling and sustainability laboratory (ITSON). After completing his Ph.D, he worked as a research associate in the National Strategic Program (PRONACES) of Toxic Agents in the Sonora River Basin of CONAHCYT. Efrain has published in peer reviewed journal and is very passionate about mapping, spatial analysis, environmental modelling, field work, water resources, water sampling, soil and dust sampling, which he has more than 8 years of experience.
Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Department of Engineering, Technological Institute of Sonora (ITSON), 08/2018 – 07/2022.
M.S., Natural Resources, Department of Water and Environmental Science, Technological Institute of Sonora (ITSON), 09/2015 – 07/2017.
B.S., Environmental engineering, Department of Engineering Sciences, Technological Equinoctial University of Ecuador (UTE), 09/2009 – 03/2014.
Peer-reviewed publications:
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E.; Robles-Morua.; A. Meza-Figueroa, D.; Schiavo, B.; Gonzalez-Grijalva, B. Seasonal quantification of Zn2+, Pb2+ and Cu2+ in urban dusts in a semiarid city in northwest Mexico, Atmospheric Pollution Research, Volume 15, Issue 5, 2024, 102074, ISSN 1309-1042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2024.102074.
- Jacinto-Maldonado, M.; Lesbarreres, D.; Rebollar, E. A.; Basanta, M, D.; Gonzalez-Grijalva, B.; Robles-Morua. A.; Alvarez-Bajo, O.; Vizuete-Jaramillo, E.; Paredes-Leon, R.; Meza-Figueroa, D. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Hannemania mite’s relationships with Mexican amphibians in disturbed environments, Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, Volume 2, 2024, ISSN=2813-6780, https://doi.org/10.3389/famrs.2024.1372993.
- Schiavo, B., Meza-Figueroa, D., Morton-Bermea, O., Vizuete-Jaramillo, E., Robles-Morua, A. Seasonal variation of mercury in settled dust from brick kiln pollution in Sonora, Mexico: Ecological risk and human health implication (2023). Atmospheric Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2023.101787
- Schiavo, B., Meza-Figueroa, D., Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. et al. Oxidative potential of metal-polluted urban dust as a potential environmental stressor for chronic diseases. Environ Geochem Health (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-022-01403-9
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E.; Meza-Figueroa, D.; Reyes-Castro, P.A.; Robles-Morua, A. Using a Sensitivity Analysis and Spatial Clustering to Determine Vulnerability to Potentially Toxic Elements in a Semiarid City in Northwest Mexico. Sustainability 2022, 14, 10461. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710461
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E., Grahmann, K., Mora Palomino, L. et al. Using ion-exchange resins to monitor nitrate fluxes in remote semiarid stream beds. Environ Monit Assess 194, 376 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10041-8
Books and book chapters:
- Robles-Morúa, A., Hinojosa-Robles, Eduardo., Navarro-Estupiñán, Javier., Meza-Figueroa, D., Vizuete-Jaramillo, E., Peñúñuri, M.G. Operational guidelines for the identification of green infrastructure in a semiarid city. Collaborating for Climate Equity, 67-84 (2022). ISBN: 9781003208723
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2024. Urban Dust and the Impact on Public Health. University of Groningen, Netherlands.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E; Meza-Figueroa, D., Gonzalez-Grijalva, B., y Robles-Morúa, A. 2023. Distribución espacial y análisis de vulnerabilidad ante la exposición de agentes tóxicos prioritarios en comunidades del Río Sonora. XXXIII Congreso Nacional de Geoquímica, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2023. Conferencia Muestreo en campo y análisis espacial de datos para el monitoreo de la contaminación atmosférica. Caso de estudio del derrame en el Río Sonora. Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2022. Conferencia magistral “Retos y Estrategias para el Monitoreo Ambiental Urbano en el Antropoceno”. Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial del Ecuador.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2021. Retos del monitoreo Ambiental Urbano en la actualidad. Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial del Ecuador. Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2021. Taller “Aplicación de SIG a las Ciencias Ambientales”. Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora. Obregon, Sonora, Mexico.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2020. Conferencia magistral “Impacto en los suelos y en la infraestructura verde en mitigar y retener la contaminación por metales pesados en las ciudades”. Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial del Ecuador.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E; Grahmann, K; Mora-Palomino, L; Méndez-Barroso, L y Robles-Morúa, A. 2018. Disponibilidad de nutrientes en un área natural con distintos grados de conservación durante un periodo estacional en un bosque tropical seco en el Noroeste de México. Unión Geofísica Mexicana. Reunión Anual 2018. Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E; Grahmann, K; Mora-Palomino, L y Robles-Morúa, A. 2018. Evaluación de la metodología de resinas de intercambio iónico para la cuantificación de flujos de nutrientes en ecosistemas naturales. IX Simposio Internacional del Carbono en México. Alamos, Sonora, Mexico.
- Grahmann, K. Vizuete-Jaramillo, E y Robles Morúa A. 2016. Evaluación de disponibilidad de nutrientes en el suelo en la cuenca del Cuchujaqui con cajas acumuladoras de iones. Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Ambiental. Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2015. Impacto de la contaminación visual en la competitividad de la ciudad latinoamericana. Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Ambiental. Universidad Estatal de Sonora. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
- Vizuete-Jaramillo, E. 2015. Impacto de la contaminación visual en la competitividad de la ciudad latinoamericana. Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Ambiental. Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial. Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador.
CONACYT Fellow, Mexican National Council for Science and Technology. Scholarship awarded to pursue Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences at Technological Institute of Sonora, 2018-2022.
Awarded with the first place as a poster exhibitor with the theme "Evaluation of the Availability of Nutrients through the Use of Ion Exchange Resins in a Seasonal Period in the Cuchujaqui River Basin". UNIVERSIDAD ESTATAL DE SONORA, Hermosillo, Mexico, 2017.
CONACYT Fellow, Mexican National Council for Science and Technology. Scholarship awarded to pursue M.S. in Natural Resources at Technological Institute of Sonora, 2015-2017.
- Ecohydrological Diagnostic and Management Proposal for the Basin of Irrigation District 38, Río Mayo, Sonora-Chihuahua. (Institution: Conselva, Costas y Comunidades)
- Design of the Water and Land Use Guide for Border Cities - US-MX Border Growing Water Smart” (BGWS). (Institution: Sonoran Institute)