Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta Awarded Three New Grants
Oct. 15, 2023
Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, UA SRC Research Translation Core Principal Investigator, has been awarded three new research grants.
The first is a One Health grant through the University of Arizona Health Sciences titled, “One Breathe in the Wake of Wildfires: Dust Generation and Contaminant Exposures from the Release and Remobilization of Contaminants,” supported by the University’s Research, Innovation & Impact and matched by the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences. This grant, with Co-PI Xinxin Ding, UA SRC Director, will seek to answer the research question, “Is dust generated from wildfire-impacted ecosystems proximal to mining leading to increased metal(loid) exposures in neighboring environmental justice communities?”
The second is an NSF implementation grant, “Community Resilience integrated into an Earth System Science Learning Ecosystem (CRESSLE)”. Project CRESSLE will partner University of Texas geoscience researchers and community members to create a learning environment that is welcoming to marginalized and minoritized researchers, community members, and students while supporting close collaboration on research using Earth System Science in service of communities.
The third is another NSF grant, “Iterative Improvement of Guidance for Building Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible Large-scale (IDEAL) Participatory Science Projects”. In this project, researchers and practitioners of two national participatory science projects will beta-test a professional development program called Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible, Large-scale (IDEAL) participatory science.
Congratulations to Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta and fellow researchers!