Debbie Sulca

Affiliation

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Biography

Debbie Sulca is a post-master’s fellow at LANL. She earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental toxicology with an emphasis in ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry and a minor in Latin American and Hemispheric Studies from University of California, Davis, Debbie completed her master’s in Earth sciences at Dartmouth College. Her thesis researched the influence that stream power (energy dissipation in a river) has on the transport of mercury- contaminated floodplain sediment. For her post- master's project, Debbie simulates the behavior of a subsurface volatile organic compound plume below a Material Disposal Area at LANL using the LANL-developed finite volume multiphase simulator (FEHM) for gas transport modeling.