Amy Ritter

Position: Instructor, Short Module
Email: aritte10@lsu.edu

 

Degrees

Masters, Civil Engineering, Water Resources, Planning and Management, Colorado State University, 1993

Bachelors, Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 1986

 

Research Interests

Environmental Risk Assessment, human health risk assessment, environment

 

Awards & Honors

American Chemical Society AGRO Division Fellow, 2024

Recognition by the Governor of Virginia, Robert McDonnell, 2011

First prize, General Posters Category at the 4th Pan Pacific Conference on Pesticide Science, 2008

PAWEES Paper Award, 2004

 

Professional Service

American Chemical Society – Executive Board Member of AGRO Division (2014 to 2023, 3-year terms)

Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Spatially Distributed Pesticide Leaching Modeling Work Group (2023 - present)

Water Environment Federation

 

Courses Taught 

ENVS 4113 Multi-Media Chemical Behavior for Risk Assessment

 

Selected Publications

“A National Probabilistic Characterization of Local Crop Proximity and Density for Refining US Screening Level Exposure Estimates of Pesticides in Surface Water Arising from Agricultural Use”, Journal of Regulatory Science, JRS (2022) Volume 10: Issue 1. Christopher M. Holmes, Dean Desmarteau, Amy Ritter, and Paul Hendley.  DOI: //https://doi.org/10.21423/jrs-v10a216

“A Wind-Tunnel Assessment of Parameters that May Impact Spray Drift during UAV Pesticide Application”, Drones 2022, 6, 204. Shanique Grant, Jeff Perine, Farah Abi-Akar, Timothy Lane, Brenna Kent, Christopher Mohler, Chris Scott, and Amy Ritter. Published 11 August 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6080204 

“National characterization of pesticide runoff and erosion potential to put USEPA standard ecological scenarios in context for pyrethroids” Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. Amy Ritter, Dean Desmarteau, Paul Hendley, Christopher M. Holmes. doi: 10.1002 ieam.4647 9 June 2022 https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ieam.4647 

“Comparison of empirical and mechanistic equations for vegetative filter strip pesticide mitigation in long-term environmental exposure assessments” Water Research. 165 (2019) 11493.  Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Amy Ritter, Garey A. Fox. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.114983 

“Impact of wind speed and direction and key meteorological parameters on potential pesticide drift mass loadings from sequential aerial applications.” Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. October 2019, Volume 16, Number 2 pp 197-210. Dean A. Desmarteau, Amy M. Ritter, Paul Hendley, and Megan W. Guevara. DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4221