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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif">Please join us today from 1:30 PM (PST) for our Enviro-Lunch seminar series where Dr. Sudipta Rakshit, Associate
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif">Title: "Influence of Veterinary Antibiotics on the Biogeochemical Cycling on Nutrient Oxyanions" </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif">Abstract: </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Improved
understanding of the biogeochemical processes affecting the fate of nutrients is one of the keys to regulate the soil health parameters for long-term agricultural resilience and sustainability.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Various
undesirable chemical agents or chemicals of environmental concern (CEC) may adversely affect the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Fundamental
understanding of the mechanism by which these chemical agents affect nutrient cycling can help build foundational knowledge to develop predictive tools/ models to assess long-term soil health/ agricultural sustainability and resilience parameters. Here we
present a summary of the findings on the influence of veterinary antibiotics (VA) in the retention/ release mechanism of boron (B). Boron (B) is an important micronutrient for crops.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">This
study will provide information about the B retention/ release mechanisms in the presence of antibiotics to further our understanding of the fate of boron, and potentially other micronutrients (e.g. molybdenum), in complex biogeochemical environments in which
both biotic and abiotic processes occur. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Bio: Sudipta Rakshit is an </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;text-indent:48px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Associate
Professor of Soil Chemistry, Department of Agricultural and Environment Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville where his research area focuses on the fate of emerging contaminants: Pharmaceuticals and metalloid, nitrogen and phosphorus nutrient cycling,
redox biogeochemistry of humic substances and environmental remediation. He received his MS from Iowa State University and Ph.D. in Environmental Soil Chemistry from the University of<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Kentucky</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">.
He has worked at the University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at Montclair State University as a Postdoctoral scholar before joining Tennessee State University in 2013.</span></span></div>
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