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Volume 7 Journal of Geology & Geophysics
ISSN: 2381-8719 Soil Science 2018
October 22-23, 2018
October 22-23, 2018 | Berlin, Germany
2nd Annual Congress on
Soil and Water Sciences
Recent Publications
1. Avila P F, Ferreira da Silva E and Candeias C (2017) Health risk assessment through consumption of vegetables rich in
heavy metals: the case study of the surrounding villages from Panasqueira mine, Central Portugal. Environ. Geochem.
Health. 39(3):565-589.
2. Moreira H et al. (2016) Selection of metal resistant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria for the growth and metal
accumulation of energy maize in a mine soil-effect of the inoculum size. Geoderma. 278:1-11.
3. Avila P F et al. (2015) Assessing heavy metal/metalloids pollution in soils after eight decades of intense mining
exploration: the case study of Borralha mine, Portugal. Geological Communications. 102(1):89-98.
4. Candeias C et al. (2014) Heavy metal pollution in mine-soil-plant system in S. Francisco de Assis - Panasqueira mine
(Portugal). Appl. Geochem. 44:12-26.
5. Avila P F et al. (2008) Geochemistry and mineralogy of mill tailings impoundments from the Panasqueira Mine
(Portugal): implications for the surrounding environment. Mine Water and the Environment. 27(4):210-224.
Biography
Paula F Avila pursued her PhD in Environmental Geochemistry; Master's Degree in Geochemistry and a Degree in Geological Engineering. She is a Researcher
at the Mineral Science and Technology Unit of the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (Portugal) since 1993. Her areas of research interest include
environmental geochemistry and environmental mineralogy; risk analysis associated with diffuse and/or catastrophic mining contamination, medical geology and
human health implications, degraded soil remediation methods including phytoremediation; geochemistry applied to mining; ore mineralogy; minerals and their
intergrowth; methods of geochemical analysis; statistical methods applied to geochemical data; development of diffuse and catastrophic contamination modeling
methodologies, based on the chemical forms of the trace elements and metalloids, their bioavailability, mobility and reactivity in the different sub-areas of the
geosystem.