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Your Environment. Your Health.

Person Details: Paloma Beamer

Superfund Research Program

Paloma Beamer

University of Arizona
Drachman Hall A223
1295 N. Martin
P.O. Box 245210
Tucson, Arizona 85724
Phone: 520-626-0006
Email: pbeamer@email.arizona.edu

Research Briefs

Publications

2023

  • Clausen RJ, Chief C, Teufel-Shone NI, Begay MA, Charley PH, Beamer P, Anako N, Chief K. 2023. Dine-centered research reframes the Gold King Mine Spill: Understanding social and spiritual impacts across space and time. J Rural Stud 97:449-457. doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.12.021
  • Van Horne YO, Carroll S, Chief K, Lothrop N, Richards JR, Begay M, Charley PH, Ingram J, Beamer P. 2023. Using environmental health dialogue in a Dine-centered approach for individualized results reporting in an environmental exposure study following the Gold King Mine Spill. Environ Res 231(Pt.2):116196. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2023.116196 PMID:37211184 PMCID:PMC10411314
  • Van Horne YO, Chief K, Charley PH, Begay M, Lothrop N, Canales RA, Beamer P. 2023. A community-based health risk assessment following the Gold King Mine Spill: Results from the Gold King Mine Spill Dine Exposure Project. Expo Health doi:10.1007/s12403-023-00583-8

2022

2021

  • Teufel-Shone NI, Chief C, Richards JR, Clausen RJ, Yazzie A, Begay MA, Lothrop N, Yazzie J, Begay AB, Beamer P, Chief K. 2021. Development of a culturally anchored qualitative approach to conduct and analyze focus group narratives collected in Dine (Navajo) communities to understand the impacts of the Gold King Mine spill of 2015. Int J Environ Res Public Health 18(17):9402. doi:10.3390/ijerph18179402 PMID:34502003 PMCID:PMC8430777
  • Van Horne YO, Chief K, Charley PH, Begay M, Lothrop N, Bell ML, Canales RA, Teufel-Shone NI, Beamer P. 2021. Impacts to Dine activities with the San Juan River after the Gold King Mine Spill. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 31(5):doi:10.1038/s41370-021-00290-z PMID:33526814 (ahead of print)

2020

  • Buckley JP, Barrett ES, Beamer P, Bennett DH, Bloom MS, Fennell TR, Fry RC, Funk WE, Hamra GB, Hecht SS, Kannan K, Iyer R, Karagas MR, Lyall K, Parsons PJ, Pellizzari ED, Signes-Pastor AJ, Starling AP, Wang A, Watkins DJ, Zhang M, Woodruff TJ. 2020. Opportunities for evaluating chemical exposures and child health in the United States: the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 30:doi:10.1038/s41370-020-0211-9 PMID:32066883 PMCID:PMC7183426

2019

  • Garcia-Rico L, Meza-Figueroa D, Beamer P, Burgess JL, O'Rourke MK, Lantz C, Furlong M, Martinez-Cinco MA, Mondaca-Fernandez I, Balderas-Cortes JJ, Meza-Montenegro MM. 2019. Serum matrix metalloproteinase-9 in children exposed to arsenic from playground dust at elementary schools in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Environ Geochem Health 42(2):499-511. doi:10.1007/s10653-019-00384-6 PMID:31372863

2016

  • Beamer P, Klimecki WT, Loh M, Van Horne YO, Sugeng AJ, Lothrop N, Billheimer D, Guerra S, Lantz RC, Canales RA, Martinez FD. 2016. Association of children's urinary CC16 levels with arsenic concentrations in multiple environmental media. Int J Environ Res Public Health 13(5):521. doi:10.3390/ijerph13050521 PMID:27223295 PMCID:PMC4881146
  • Loh M, Sugeng AJ, Lothrop N, Klimecki WT, Cox M, Wilkinson S, Lu Z, Beamer P. 2016. Multimedia exposures to arsenic and lead for children near an inactive mine tailings and smelter site. Environ Res 146:331-339. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2015.12.011 PMID:26803211
  • Ramirez-Andreotta M, Brody JG, Lothrop N, Loh M, Beamer P, Brown P. 2016. Improving environmental health literacy and justice through environmental exposure results communication. Int J Environ Health Res 13(7):690. doi:10.3390/ijerph13070690 PMID:27399755 PMCID:PMC4962231
  • Ramirez-Andreotta M, Brody JG, Lothrop N, Loh M, Beamer P, Brown P. 2016. Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning. Environ Health 15:2. doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0080-1 PMID:26748908 PMCID:PMC4707004

2015

  • Lothrop N, Wilkinson S, Verhougstraete M, Sugeng AJ, Loh M, Klimecki WT, Beamer P. 2015. Home water treatment habits and effectiveness in a rural Arizona community. Water (Basel) 7(3):1217-1231. doi:10.3390/w7031217 PMID:26120482 PMCID:PMC4479291

2014

  • Beamer P, Sugeng AJ, Kelly MD, Lothrop N, Klimecki WT, Wilkinson S, Loh M. 2014. Use of dust fall filters as passive samplers for metal concentrations in air for communities near contaminated mine tailings. Environ Sci Process Impacts 16(6):1275-1281. doi:10.1039/c3em00626c PMID:24469149 PMCID:PMC4038653

2013

  • Ramirez-Andreotta M, Brusseau ML, Beamer P, Maier RM. 2013. Home gardening near a mining site in an arsenic-endemic region of Arizona: assessing arsenic exposure dose and risk via ingestion of home garden vegetables, soils, and water. Sci Total Environ 454-455:373-382. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.063 PMID:23562690 PMCID:PMC3871205

2012

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