Gardenroots highlighted in Edible magazine article entitled: "Reading Roots".
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April 16, 2016
UA SRP Answers the Call for Science Education Support across Arizona!
Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta’s hands have been full bringing hands-on scientific demonstrations to the classroom, as well as taking part in special events in support of her community engagement and environmental justice work with the University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP). Dr. Ramirez-Andreotta spent a Saturday afternoon this April talking about environmental health justice and community gardening at the UA Biosphere II in Oracle, Arizona. Her hands-on presentation was part of the Biosphere II Special Saturday Series entitled, What If, with the series theme for April asking the Earth Month-inspired question: “What if we can be better environmental stewards?”
In her presentation, Dr. Ramirez-Andreotta, UA SRP Research Translation Core Principle Investigator, asked the very specific question: “What if we could achieve environmental health justice?” She defined environmental health justice and talked about the impact of soil and water contaminants on the local crops of communities living in environmentally compromised spaces, or neighboring to hazardous waste sites.
She provided demonstrations from her Gardenroots project, an on-going Citizen Science project that examines the safety of home gardening throughout Arizona and in Massachusetts. The demonstration attracted 182 Biosphere II visitors over a two-hour period. Dr. Ramirez-Andreotta states: “It was an honor to be invited! I was delighted to have an opportunity to demonstrate how gardens are excellent platforms for environmental public health citizen science work.”
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March 31, 2016
University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP) Research Translation Core (RTC) investigator, Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, has been making waves since returning home to take a faculty position at her alma mater, the University of Arizona, last year. Ramirez-Andreotta is a transdisciplinary environmental health scientist who specializes in the fate and transport of contaminants in plant-soil systems, research translation, and community engagement efforts. Within this last year, she has received a number of city, state, international, and foundation grants to support her burgeoning research program.
January 31, 2016
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.