On Tuesday, we met with Dr. Zach DeVries to hear about his career journey and research on the health impact of household pests and work in developing better methods of pest control.
On Thursday, we became familiar with citizen science approaches by sampling soil for lead
contamination. We joined the KY INBRE group to first talk about lead poisoning how we will be organizing our
work. After choosing a location on campus to sample, we then collected the soil
samples, weighed and ground them to prepare them for mass spectrometry analysis. This will be performed by Dr. Jason Unrine. Dr. Unrine has been collaborating with Dr. Anna Hoover on a citizen science project focused on improving drinking water in Eastern Kentucky. You can learn about Dr. Unrine and Hoover’s work in citizen
science here
and here.
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