Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta has been a part of the University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP) since 2005, first as Research Translation Core Coordinator, and then as a Training Core Fellow earning her PhD in 2012. She then left to train as a post-doc and become Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, MA working in the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute there. In 2015 Ramírez-Andreotta returned to the UA as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, and she continues to collaborate with UA SRP with seed funding from the Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining. Following the success of her dissertation project, Gardenroots: The Dewey-Humboldt AZ Garden Project, Ramírez-Andreotta has continued her work investigating the uptake of metals by edible plants.
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The Gold King Mine spill that resulted in the sudden movement of millions of gallons of acid mine drainage into the Colorado River Basin in August 2015 has left many community members pondering the short- and long-term impacts of the spill. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, SRP investigator, was invited to give a presentation on the impacts of the spill at the 2nd Annual Desert Produce Safety Collaboration Conference in Yuma, AZ on January 12, 2016. The goal of multi-stakeholder conference hosted by the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension was to increase collaboration among all people who play a role in food safety. Ramírez-Andreotta was invited due to her expertise estimating the risk of environmental contamination of garden vegetables. Her talk, entitled: "Understanding the Gold King Mine Spill: Impacts on Water Quality and Potential Risks” drew from the bulletin developed by the University of Arizona Superfund Research Program, “Understanding the Gold King Mine Spill,” which Ramírez-Andreotta also handed out to farm representatives attending the event.
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Leaders Across Borders (LaB), a leadership program created by the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission to improve the health of communities located along the border, recently selected University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP) Research Translation Core (RTC) Principle Investigator, Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, to participate in their 2016 program.
Dr. Sarah Wilkinson spoke in two sessions at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s 14th Community Involvement Training Conference held in Atlanta, GA, August 4-6, 2015.