Sanpisa Sritrairat
e-mail: sanpisa at
ldeo.columbia.edu www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~sanpisa
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2004-present |
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, M.A./M.Phil/Ph.D.
program, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Dissertation: Multiproxy Analysis of Past Vegetation,
Climate, and Sediment Dynamics in Research advisors: Dorothy Peteet and Timothy Kenna Committee members: Peter deMenocal and Kevin Griffin Majors and Minors: 1) Paleoecology/Paleoclimatology, 2) Environmental Geochemistry, 3) Isotope Geology |
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2009 |
M.Phil, Thesis: Past Vegetation, Climate, Nutrient, and Sediment
Dynamics in |
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May 2006 |
M.A. in Earth and
Environmental Sciences, Thesis: Human Impacts and Climate
Variability at |
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May 2004 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, B.S. in Hydrogeology with honors (Magna
cum Laude), with emphasis on organic & inorganic geochemistry,
environmental geochemistry, and hydrology Advisor: Richard Bopp B.S. dual majors in Environmental Sciences and Biology with honors, Economics minor, (Magna cum Laude)- with emphasis on molecular biology, ecology, global change, and ecological economics Advisors: |
Awards, Honors, Fellowships, and
Grants
Fellowships
and Scholarships
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Faculty Fellow,
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Full Scholarship from the Royal Thai
Government (1999-present) to study B.S. – Ph.D.
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Howard Hughes Scholarship for
environmental molecular biology research at RPI (2002)
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Science Research Program full
scholarship from Singapore Government to do research at the National University
of Singapore (1999)
Awards and Honors
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NASA’s New York City Research
Initiative Achievement Award (2006-2009)
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Joseph
L. Rosenholtz Prize, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, awarded to the most outstanding senior in Earth Sciences
(2004)
Grants
Teaching and Mentoring Experience
Guest
Instructor
Fall
2009: EESC W4835 Wetlands and Climate Change
Fall
2007: GEOL140
Paleoclimatology
Teaching
Assistant
Columbia
University New York, NY
Fall
2006, Fall 2007:EESC
W4401 Quantitative Models of Climate-Sensitive Natural and Human systems
Fall 2005: EESC W4835 Wetlands and Climate
Change: www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~sanpisa/wetland
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy,
NY
Fall
2002: BIOL-1010: Introduction to Biology
Spring 2001: MATH-2400: Introduction
to Differential Equations
Mentoring Experience
2005
– present: Co-mentored (with Dr. Peteet) nine undergraduate,
seven high school interns, and three high school teachers conducting research
in the Paleoecology Lab, LDEO
2004:
Mentored 2 undergraduate students in the Environmental Geochemistry
Lab, RPI
Work and
Research Experience
Summer
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
NASA
at Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
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Research mentor in NASA’s New York
City Research Initiative Program.
Co-mentored a high school student and teacher each year to conduct
research on a comparison of Hudson Estuarine marshes and Alaskan fen
sedimentation, carbon sequestration, carbon cycling, and their δ13C
and δ15N signatures.
December
2003 – Summer 2004
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
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Research Assistant in a geochemistry
lab under the supervision of Prof. Richard Bopp. Analyzed water samples for a USGS study of
the
June
- August 2003
Smithsonian
Environmental
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Intern/Research
Assistant in the Biogeochemistry Lab supervised by Dr. Patrick Megonigal. Used
biogeochemistry and analytical chemistry techniques to study sediment
biogeochemistry, carbon cycling and the effects of climate/hydrology
variability to marsh ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay and
Fall
2001-Spring 2002
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Research
Assistant in Sandra A. Nierzwicki-Bauer’s Molecular Biology lab.
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Independent
research under the Howard Hughes scholarship to study microbial evolution and
biodiversity of Azolla’s bacterial endosymbionts using molecular biology
techniques.
Summer
1999
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Research Assistant in a medical
Microbiology lab. Independent research entitled, “Effect of Different
Antibiotic Soaps on E.coli and S.aureus,” under the
scholarship from the Science Research Program 1999
Publications
Peer-reviewed
Xu
C.Y.; Griffin K. L; Blazier J.C.; Craig E. C; Gilbert D. S; Sritrairat S.;
Anderson O.R.; Castaldi M.; Beaumont L. 2009. The growth
response of Alternanthera philoxeroides in a simulated post-combustion
emission with ultrahigh [CO2] and acidic pollutants.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) 2009;157(7):2118-25.
Kenna, T. C., Nitsche, F. O.,
Herron, M., Mailloux, B. J., Peteet, D. M., Sritrairat, S., Sands, E., Baumgarten,
J. Evaluation and calibration of a field portable X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer for quantitative analysis of siliciclastic soils and sediments. Journal of Analytical Atomic
Spectrometry (JAAS), Accepted October 2010
In
Prep
Sritrairat, S., Peteet, D.M., Sambrotto, R. Griffin, K. Chillrud, S. Kenna, T. Past Vegetation, Climate, Sediment, and Nutrient Dynamics at Tivoli North Bay, Hudson River, New York. In preparation for Ecological Monographs, plan to submit January, 2011
Sritrairat, S., Peteet, D.M., Kenna, T.K., and Chillrud, S. A Thousand years of Environmental Change at Stockport Flats: a Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve. In preparation for Wetlands
Sritrairat, S., Kenna, T. and Peteet, D.M. Application of a Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer to Rapidly Analyze for Climate and Environmental Changes in Organic-Rich Marsh Sediments. In prep for Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Sritrairat, S., Kenna, T. and Peteet, D.M. Heavy Metal Distribution in Hudson River Wetlands, NY. In prep for Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Sritrairat, S., Kenna, T. and Peteet, D.M. Estuary-Wide History of Sediment, Climate, and Ecosystem Changes in the Hudson River, NY In prep for Ecology
Non-peer
reviewed publications
Sritrairat,
S. 2002. Mycorrhizal fungi and agriculture, in
Rajabhat Yala University’s Thai National Science Day 02 book, August 2002
Sritrairat,
S. 2003. Mathematic modeling for better strip logging
strategy, in Rajabhat Yala University’s Thai National Science Day 03 book,
August 2003
Technical
reports
Sritrairat, S. 2007. Past Vegetation, Climate, and Sediment
Dynamics in Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve Wetlands in Tivoli
Bays and Stockport Flats: NYSG-HRNERR Fellowship Final Report, NY Sea Grant
and Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Sritrairat, S. 2010. Linking Wetland Sedimentation and
Contaminant Deposition with Ecosystem Changes from Anthropogenic and Climatic
Changes in Hudson River NERR Wetlands. National Estuarine Research Reserve
Fellowship Final Report
Theses
Sritrairat, S. 2007. Past
Vegetation, Climate, Nutrient, and Sediment Dynamics in Hudson National
Estuarine Research Reserve Wetlands. M.Phil Thesis, Department of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
Sritrairat, S. 2006. Human
Impacts and Climate Variability at Tivoli North Bay, Hudson River, New York,
M.A. Thesis, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia
University, New York, NY
Abstracts/Professional Conferences
Sritrairat, S. Kenna, T.C.,
Peteet, D.M. et al. Sediment Dynamics and Fate of Heavy Metals,
Carbon, and Inorganic Matter in the Hudson Estuary, New York. Eos
Trans. AGU, 91(55), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS33G-02 (Talk)
Sritrairat, S. Kenna, T.C.,
Peteet, D.M. 2009. Method Evaluation: Coupling of Geochemical Proxies
with Traditional Paleoecological Indicators in Marsh Sediments. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(54), Fall Meet. Suppl.,
Abstract PP31B-1351
Srirairat, S. Peteet, D.M.,
Kenna, T.C. 2009. Ecosystem and Landscape Change of the Mid-Hudson Estuary over
the Last 400 Years. New York State Wetland Forums, 2009. (Invited talk)
Sritrairat, S. Kenna, T.C.,
Peteet, D.M., Pederson, D. 2008. Multiproxy Analysis of Droughts, Landscape
Changes, Sediment Dynamics, and Human Disturbances in Hudson River Marsh Peat,
using Pollen, Spores, Macrofossils, LOI, and X- Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy.
Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B13B-0444
Sritrairat, S. Peteet, D.M.,
Kurdyla, D, and Guilderson, T. 2008. Past Vegetation, Climate, and Sediment
Dynamics in Hudson NERR Wetlands. Northeast National History Meeting.
Albany, NY. (Invited talk)
Kenna, T.C., Sritrairat, S. Peteet, D.M.2008. Rapid Analysis of
Zn, Ti, and K with X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy as Proxies for Drought,
Fire, and Erosion in Hudson River Marsh Sediment. AMQUA Biennial Meeting,
Penn State University, PA.
Sritrairat, S. Kenna, T.C.,
Peteet, D.M. 2007. Coupled Pollen, Spore, and Macrofossil Hudson River Marsh
Paleoecological Analysis with X-Ray Fluorescence Elemental Analysis to Study
Estuarine Ecosystem Response to Anthropogenic and Climatic Changes. Eos
Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC54A-04 (Talk)
Sritrairat, S. Peteet, D.M.,
Griffin, G.L., Kurdyla, D, and Guilderson, T. 2006. Climate Variability and
Human Impacts at Tivoli North Bay, Hudson River. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52),
Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A53E-0241.
Additional
Invited Talks
Laboratory/Field Skills
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ICP-Mass spectroscopy for stable C
and N, X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy analysis, gas and liquid chromatography,
GC-MS, column chemistry, radiogenic λ-ray counting, infrared spectroscopy,
NMR
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Identification of pollen grains and
macrofossils in sediment cores
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Marsh, bog, lake, riverine, coastal,
and marine sediment coring and sediment analysis
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Molecular biology techniques,
including16S rRNA gene Sequencing, PCR, Bacterial Cloning, in situ
hybridization, RFLP, Agarose Gel and SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis
Field Work
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Seven years of sediment coring,
boating, plant and geographic survey in upland and wetlands of the Hudson
River, New York State, the Chesapeake Bay, MD, and Massachusetts
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Field assistant to take bog and fen
sediment cores in the
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Field mapping, sedimentology,
mineralogy, petrology, organic and trace metal contaminant analysis, sediment
analysis, geochemical tracer study, and field hydrology of
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Coursework-related: Projects in
Languages: Thai
(native speaker), English (fluent)
Service and Outreach
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Organizing the Division of Biology
and Paleoenvironment seminar series, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, NY,
2006-2007, 2009-2011
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Lamont Open House,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, NY October 2004-2010
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Co-leading
1-2 field trips per season for The River Summer Program
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Activities
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A black belt practicing Kokikai
Aikido, Columbia University.
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Organizer of the Lamont community
garden (2007-2010)
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Hiking, snorkeling, cooking,
crafting