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Are you interested in doing a arsenic study in your community? Our handbook on how to assemble and use a low-cost arsenic screening kit are now available for download. There are English and Spanish versions of these publications.
Dan, Delia, Robert, God’sgift, Zain, Abby, Sebastián, Salvatore, and Mónica published a paper entitled “Low‑cost screening method for estimating inorganic arsenic in soil” in Environmental Science and Pollution Research. You can find the article here.
Are you interested in doing a soil study in your community? Our handbooks on how to organize a community soil study and how to assemble and use a low-cost lead screening kit are now available for download. There are English and Spanish versions of these publications.
The Times Union interviewed Abby about the project and soil workshops held in August. You can read the published article here.
The Soil Justice Fellows reconvened with the Our Soil team this afternoon to discuss future plans for soil activities at NATURE Lab. We finalized a resource list and flyer to report back findings from the workshop to the public. You can download the resource list here or find it on our web page here.
Dan, Abby, Tal, Mónica, and Saed published a paper entitled “Confronting Legacy Lead in Soils in the United States: Community-engaged Researchers Doing Undone Science” in Environmental Science and Policy. You can find the article here.
On the third and last day of the workshops in Arica, Fellows screened their soil for lead and Daniel facilitated a mapping exercise for Fellows to share their results with one another and discuss the state of soil lead and arsenic throughout the city. Fellows then formed two groups to brainstorm around several prompting questions for thinking about the larger action and resources necessary to address lead and arsenic in Arica.
Throughout the day, Fellows brought their soil samples to the workshop site and Dan sieved them to remove particles and debris larger than 2 mm in preparation for the day’s testing. In the second workshop session, Fellows used the arsenic test from the Community Soil Study Toolkit to measure the amount of inorganic arsenic in their soil samples.
Abby, Sebastián, Dan, Daniel, and Caleb traveled to Arica in the northernmost part of Chile to work with Soil Justice Fellows in the city yesterday and held the first soil workshop today. Fellows shared with one another their motivations for being at the workshops and what they expected and hoped to find with the soil toolkit. Dan and Sebastián explained how to collect soil samples at the end of the session, and everyone left with sampling kits.