Citomic by drone-SPME: a metabolomic approach to assess the metabolism urban from Manizales city, Colombia

We are a group of multidisciplinary researchers: chemists, chemical/mechatronical/sanitary/environmental/system engineers, geologes, medical and policy makers from Colombia, Manizales city (over 450.000 inhabitants). We are developing a new hybrid technology drone-SPME (it is consisting in coupled of unmanned (aerial or aquatic) vehicle with fibers of solid phase microextraction SPME to analyze volatile or semi-volatile organic compounds by GC-MS equippment in air, water, soil and food matrices. The technology has the advantages of easy accesibility to hard monitoring places (discharges tube, landfills, hills, high places, etc.) and to capture the chemical molecules that can reveals special concern in the cities. We consider that is a novel tool to assess the urban metabolism in cities, in special for seeking the excretion wastes to air, water, soils and foods focused on emergent concern pollutants, that they have an actual special concern in the public health of our cities. We would like to participate in an H2020 initiative with european partners for to develop this idea together: "The assessesment of excretion waste from urban metabolism of european and latin america cities focused on emerging concern pollutants in air, water, soil and foods by hybrid technology drone-SPME" Actually I am a Secretary of Network RACAL for analysis of environmental quality in Latin America and it offers a big support (technical, human, eqquipments, institucional, etc.) from this part of world for developing this initiatives. We have partners in the RACAL network (www.redracal.org) from Brasil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay. Back