Jennifer Patterson
Environmental Science
Mentor: Adrian Brearley, PhD
Project: Legacy Uranium Contamination from the Jackpile Mine at The Pueblo of Laguna
About Jennifer Patterson
I am researching the extent of Uranium contamination at the Pueblo of Laguna due Uranium mining at the neighboring 'Jackpile Mine'. Mining took place from 1952 to 1982, the legacy mine is now deemed an EPA Superfund Site. I am interested to see the difference in the levels of contamination; for example, if streams have a higher or lower contamination in certain areas. I wish to use this information to promote Environmental Justice for communities that could have been exposed to toxic metals in the past and in the present to prevent this from happening in the future. 
