Geosyntec and SiREM practitioners will contribute to the Tennessee Environmental Network Show of the South on May 13 through 15, 2026, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Andrea Rocha, Ph.D. (Knoxville) will present on "Novel Improvement of Fate and Transport Considerations at a Closing Inactive CCR Landfill utilizing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)" at the at the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG) Coal Combustion Residual (CCR) Workshop's Session 5 on August 27, 2020. Andrea's co-presenter is Harold Register, Jr. from Consumers Energy.
Andrea Rocha, Ph.D. (Tennessee) coauthored a paper entitled "Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity" that was published in the journal Microbiome in Volume 8, Article 51, on April 6, 2020.
Andrea Rocha is a Scientist based in Tennessee with more than 10 years of experience focused on research using geochemical, microbial, computational, and genomics techniques within the areas of environmental microbiology, computational biology, and engineering science.
Andrea Rocha, Ph.D. (Tennessee) coauthored a paper entitled "Large Circular Plasmids from Groundwater Plasmidomes Span Multiple Incompatibility Groups and Are Enriched in Multimetal Resistance Genes" that was published in the journal mBio in Volume 10, Issue 1 on April 3, 2019.
Andrea Rocha, Ph.D., Jacques Smith, Ph.D., and Duane Graves, Ph.D. (Tennessee) delivered a presentation entitled "Next Generation Sequencing for Management of Surface Water/Groundwater Interaction and Quality" at the National Ground Water Association's (NGWA's) 2018 Groundwater Week at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 3, 2018.
Andrea Rocha, Ph.D. (Tennessee) co-authored an article entitled "Microbial Functional Gene Diversity Predicts Groundwater Contamination and Ecosystem Functioning" published in mBio Volume 9, Issue 1 on February 20, 2018.
Andrea Rocha (Tennessee) co-authored an article entitled "Construction of Viable Soil Defined Media Using Quantitative Metabolomics Analysis of Soil Metabolites" that was published in Frontiers in Microbiology on December 22, 2017.
Andrea Rocha (Tennessee) will deliver a presentation entitled "High-throughput Sequencing as a Microbial Diagnostic Tool for Defining and Managing Environmental Processes" at the East Tennessee Geological Society Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee on November 13, 2017.
As in previous years, Geosyntec will make a significant technical contribution to 2017 World of Coal Ash Conference (WOCA) at the Lexington Convention Center & Hyatt Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky on May 8-11, 2017.
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