Erika Mitchell

As part of an all-volunteer team of scientists, I have been studying chemical aspects of drinking water quality in South Asia for nearly 20 years. Together, our team has published numerous papers on multiple metal contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh, West Bengal, India, and Myanmar. Our research is centered on finding solutions to provide safe drinking water for the developing world.

Mitchell, E., Frisbie, S., and Sarkar, B. Exposure to multiple metals from groundwater--a global crisis: Geology, climate change, health effects, testing, and mitigation. Metallomics. 3(9): 874-908.

Frisbie, S., Mitchell, E., Mastera, L., Maynard, D., Yusuf, A., Siddiq, M.,Ortega, R. Dunn, R., Westerman, D., Bacquart, T., Sarkar, B. 2009. Public health strategies for western Bangladesh that address the arsenic, manganese, uranium and other toxic elements in their drinking water. Environmental Health Perspectives 117: 410–416.

Bacquart, T., Frisbie, S., Mitchell, E., Grigg, L., Cole, C., Small, C., Sarkar, B. 2015. Multiple inorganic toxic substances contaminating the groundwater of Myingyan Township, Myanmar: arsenic, manganese, fluoride, iron, and uranium. Science of the Total Environment 517: 232-245.

Bacquart, T., Bradshaw, K., Frisbie, S., Mitchell, E., Springston, G., Defelice, J., Dustin, H., Sarkar, B. 2012. A survey of arsenic, manganese, boron, thorium, and other toxic metals in the groundwater of a West Bengal, India neighbourhood. Metallomics 4: 653-659.

March 2016