New Gardenroots Website and Publication
Feb. 20, 2013
Gardenroots, the Dewey-Humboldt, AZ Gardening Project, was successfully completed in 2012. This citizen-science project was developed by then-graduate student Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta to characterize the uptake of arsenic by homegrown vegetables and the potential for arsenic exposure associated with home gardening in Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona.
An overview of the project can now be found on the University of Arizona Superfund Research Program website! Click here to learn more about Gardenroots study objectives, results, and recommendations. Comments or questions can also be posted to an online message board.
Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta presented her work on Gardenroots at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences headquarters in February, 2013. Click here to read more!
In addition, Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta’s latest publication, Home gardening near a mining site in an arsenic-endemic region of Arizona: Assessing arsenic exposure dose and risk via ingestion of home garden vegetables, soils, and water (Sci Total Environ. 2013 June 1;454-455:373–382) is now available. Click here to read online. Click here to download a PDF (333 KB).