Dan is continuing to work on the Community Soil Study Toolkit in the Ramírez-Andreotta laboratory, now looking at a field test for measuring arsenic in soil. This test is based on a method under development in the Ramírez-Andreotta laboratory. He has completed measurements for the soil samples used with the soil lead field test earlier in the month: samples from public spaces in and around Troy, NY, and several samples archived in the Ramírez-Andreotta laboratory. He is now in the process of organizing and comparing the field results with the laboratory methods used to measure arsenic in soils.
The picture below shows Dan’s setup in the laboratory for conducting the arsenic field test:
