Dr. Adaline Buerck
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Civil Engineering
Director of The Cecil Day Family Center for International Groundwater Innovation
Dr. Adaline Buerck is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering and the Director of The Cecil Day Family Center for International Groundwater Innovation. Dr. Buerck joined Mercer University in Fall 2022. Before joining Mercer, Dr. Buerck was at the University of South Florida where she completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Social Marketing and Social Change.
Education
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
- Graduate Certificate in Social Marketing and Social Change, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
- Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
- Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Minor in Business Administration, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Areas of Specialization
- Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH)
- Social Marketing
Professional Interests
Dr. Buerck is passionate about helping others and working to provide communities with basic human rights such as access to clean water. Her research is often interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on culturally appropriate WASH technologies. Her doctoral research examined lead (Pb) mitigation within hand pumps in Madagascar. She also holds interest in engineering education and evaluation. Dr. Buerck is an active member of AWWA, ASEE, and AEESP.
Recent Publications
- Buerck, A. M., Khaliq, M., Rakotondrazaka, R., Rakotoarisoa, L., Paul Barrett, L. J., Sommariva, S., & Mihelcic, J. R. “Convergence of Social Marketing and Engineering: A Lead Mitigation Study in Madagascar,” Social Marketing Quarterly, 2023, 29(1), 87–104. https://doi.org/10.1177/15245004231153951.
- Champion, W.M., Buerck, A., Nenninger, C., Yusuf, K., Barrett, L.J.P., Rakototarisoa, L.N., Rakotondrazaka, R., Alfredo, K., Cunningham, J.A., Pasha, M.K., Mihelcic, J.R. “Childhood Blood Lead Levels and Environmental Risk Factors in Madagascar,” Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-20586-3.
- Khaliq, M., Sommariva, S., Buerck, A.M., Rakotondrazaka, R., Rakotoarisoa, L., Barrett, L.J.P., Mihelcic, J.R., “Midstream Players Determine Population-Level Behavior Change: Social Marketing Research to Increase Demand for Lead-Free Components in Pitcher Pumps in Madagascar,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, 18, 7297. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147297.
- Buerck, A. M., Usowicz, M., Cunningham, J. A., Khaliq, M., Barrett, L. J. P., Rakotoarisoa, L., Rakotondrazaka, R., Alfredo, K., Sommariva, S., & Mihelcic, J. R. “Health and Economic Consequences of Lead Exposure Associated with Products and Services Provided by the Informal Economy,” Environmental Science & Technology, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c08127.
- Akers, B., Buerck, A., et al., “Estimates of Blood Lead Levels (BLLs) for Children in Coastal Madagascar: Accounting for Dietary Uptake of Lead (Pb),” Exposure and Health, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12403-019-00316-w.
- Buerck, A., Ortiz-Carabantes, E., Delgado, D., Trotz, M., “Integration of a Local Wicked Problem into the Environmental Engineering Laboratory Curriculum”. Proceedings of the American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June, 2019. Tampa, Florida. https://peer.asee.org/32994.
Recent Presentations
- Buerck, A., Mihelcic, J.R., Pasha, M.K., Barrett, L.J.P., Rakotoarisoa, L.N., Rakotondrazaka, R., “How Technology Innovation & Social Marketing Converge for Impactful Behavior Change: Pb Mitigation in Madagascar,” UNC Water & Health Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 2022. (Oral) (Ranked as Top 20 Abstract of the conference)
- Buerck, A., Pasha, M.K., Barrett, L.J.P., Rakototarisoa, L.N., Rakotondrazaka, R., “A lead (Pb) Mitigation story from Madagascar: Technology Innovation, Public Health, & Social Marketing Converge for Impactful Behavior Change within an Informal Hand Pump Market,” OU International WaTER Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, September 2022. (Oral)
- Buerck, A., Pasha, M.K., Sommariva, S., Rakotondrazaka, R., Rakotoarisoa, L.N., Barrett, L.J.P., Mihelcic, J.R., “Engineering and Social Marketing: Convergence research to reduce lead exposure in a Supplemental Self-Supply Water Source Accessed by Handpumps in Madagascar,” World Social Marketing Conference, Brighton, UK, September 2022. (Oral)
- Buerck, A., Khaliq Pasha, M., Barrett, L.J.P., Rakotoarisoa, L., Rakotondrazaka, R., Mihelcic, J., Alfredo, K., Cunningham J., “Convergence Research: A transdisciplinary integration of engineering, social science, and public health to achieve sustainable lead (Pb) mitigation,” AEESP Conference, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, June 2022. (Poster)
- Buerck, A., Pasha, M.K., Sommariva, S., Rakotondrazaka, R., Rakotoarisoa, L.N., Barrett, L.J.P., Mihelcic, J.R., “Engineering and Social Marketing: Convergence research to reduce lead exposure in Madagascar” USF Social Marketing Conference, Clearwater, Florida, May 2022. (Oral)
- Buerck, A., “GET THE LEAD OUT! Evaluation findings from an interdisciplinary Pb mitigation project in Madagascar,” USF Social Marketing Conference workshop, Clearwater, Florida, May 2022. (Oral)
- Buerck, A., “How Technology Innovation, Health, and Social Marketing Converge: A lead (Pb) Mitigation Story from Madagascar,” Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, May 3, 2022. (Oral)
- Buerck, A., Pasha, M.K., Mihelcic, J.R., Barrett, L.J.P., Rakototarisoa, L.N., Rakotondrazaka, R., Sommariva, S., “Social Marketing and Engineering: A transdisciplinary research study to reduce lead exposure and protect health in Madagascar,” Graduate Research Symposium, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 2022. (Poster)
- Buerck, A., Prouty, C. “How does it all fit together? Examining interdisciplinary training in systems thinking and modeling,” 2022 INFEWS PI Workshop, Virtual, February 9-11, 2022. (Plenary Synthesis Panel)
- Buerck, A., “Lead mitigation via an interdisciplinary perspective,” Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) at the University of Idaho, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7923/BDKV-YQ35. (Oral)