Rocio Trimino Gort (Environmental Engineering)

Rocio Trimino Gort (Environmental Engineering)

Rocio Trimino Gort is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering at Florida International University. Rocio has been on the Dean’s List since Spring 2018 and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and American Society of Civil Engineers. Rocio research focuses on mobile contaminants of concern that persist in the subsurface within the Hanford Site Central Plateau and include uranium (U), technetium-99 (Tc-99), iodine-129 (I-129), chromium (Cr), and nitrate (NO3). Rocio investigated co-precipitation of iodine and iodine comingled with chromate with calcium carbonate and studied the effect of silica content in the synthetic porewater composition on the iodine and chromate removal process. This research involved solid characterization studies to understand the co-precipitation of iodine and chromium in calcium carbonate solids and evaluated the effect of pH on the release of iodine and iodine comingled with chromium from contaminant- loaded calcium carbonate solids during dissolution. Rocio also initiated a new study that determines the mechanisms affecting the behavior and fate of contaminants in competitive sorption experiments using Hanford sediments