Publications, Presentations & Posters

Publications

  • Moses A, Ramírez-Andreotta MD, McLain JET, Obergh V, Rutin E, Cortez I, Sandhaus S, Kilungo A. (2023). The Efficacy of Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) Tests for Detecting Microbial Contamination in Rooftop Harvested Rainwater. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195:1398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11942-y.
  • Moses A, Ramírez-Andreotta MD, McLain JET, Cortez LI, Kilungo A. (2023). Assessing the impact of rainwater harvesting infrastructure and gardening trends on microbial indicator organism presence in harvested rainwater and garden soils. J Appl Microbiol; 134(6). https://doi.org/10.1093/jambio/lxad110.
  • Palawat K, Root R, Cortez LI, Foley T, Carella V, Beck C, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. (2023). Dissolved arsenic and lead concentrations in rooftop harvested rainwater: community generated dataset. Date in Brief 48, 109255.
  • Palawat K, Root R, Cortez LI, Foley T, Carella V, Beck C, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. (2023). Patterns of contamination and burden of lead and arsenic in rooftop harvested rainwater collected in Arizona environmental justice communities. Environmental Management, 337, 117747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117747.
  • Villagomez-Marquez N, Abrell L, Foley T, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. (2023). Organic micropollutants measured in roof-harvested rainwater from rural and urban environmental justice communities in Arizona. Science of the Total Environment, 876, 162662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162662.
  • Moses A, McLain JET, Kilungo A, Root R, Abrell L, Buxner S, Sandoval F, Foley T, Jones M, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. (2022). Minding the Gap: Socio-demographic Factors Linked to the Perception of Environmental Contaminants, Water Harvesting Infrastructure, and Gardening Characteristics. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-022-00769-7.
  • Foley, T; Swann, DE.;. Sotelo, G.; Perkins, N.; and Winkler D. (2021) “Asynchronous flowering patterns in saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea)”. Ecosphere Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3873.
  • Foley, T.; Wolf, AA.; Sandoval, F.; Jackson, C.; and Stephenson, R. (2021) “Development of a brownfield inventory for prioritizing funding outreach in Tucson, Arizona”. Geo-Spatial Information Sciences. Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2021.1997555.
  • Foley, T; and Kenski, D. (2021) “Total gaseous mercury (TGM) concentration over Lake Superior and Lake Michigan”. Journal of Great Lakes Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.06.003.
  • Ingram, M.; Wolf, A.A.; López-Gálvez, N.I.; Griffin, S.C.; and Beamer, P.I. (2021) “Proposing a social ecological approach to address disparities in occupational exposures and health for low-wage and minority workers employed in small businesses”. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-021-00317-5.
  • Foley, T.; Wolf, AA.; Henriquez, P.; Sandoval, F.; and Rogstad, A. (2019) “Low Income Urban Forestry Program in Tucson, Arizona, USA,” Cities and the Environment. 12(2) Article 2. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1255&context=cate.
  • Sandhaus S, Ramírez-Andreotta MD, Kilungo A, Wolf AM, Sandoval F, Henriquez P. (2018). Combating Climate Injustices: An Informal Science and Popular Education Approach to Addressing Environmental Health Disparities. Pedagogy in Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4(4), 260–269. DOI: 10.1177/2373379917751476.
  • Sandhaus, S; Ramírez-Andreotta, M; Kilungo, A; Wolf, AA; Sandoval, F; and Henriquez, P. (2018) “Combating Climate Injustices: An Informal Science and Popular Education Approach to Addressing Environmental Health Disparities”, Pedagogy in Health Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379917751476.
  • Moreno Ramirez D, Ramirez-Andreotta MD, Estrella-Sánchez R, Wolf AM, Kilungo A, Spitz AH, Betterton, EA. (2015). Pollution Prevention through Peer Education: A Community Health Worker and Small and Home-Based Business Initiative on the Arizona-Sonora Border. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12:11209-11226. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120911209.
  • Foley, T., Wolf, AA.; and Betterton, EA. (2012) “Ambient PM10 and Metal Concentrations Measured in the Sunnyside Unified School District, Tucson Arizona,” Journal of the Arizona Nevada Academy of Science, Volume 43(2). https://www.jstor.org/stable/23206701.

Presentations

  • “From Play to Policy: Applying Gamification to Enhance Community Engagement in Urban Greening Policymaking” | CELA 2024 Annual Conference | St. Louis, MO
  • Ramirez-Andreotta MD, Sandhaus S, Sandoval F, Kilungo A, McLain J, Root R, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kaufmann D, Cortez I, Foley T, Henriquez P, Jones M, Dewey M, Ochoa L, Palawat K, Villagomez-Marquez N, Guptill A, Alshuli T. May 2021. Citizen Science Association. Building a transdisciplinary, bilingual community science program to advance environmental health in underserved communities.
  • Ramírez-Andreotta MD, Abrell L, Buxner S, Cortez I, Davis L, Dewey M, Foley T, Henriquez P, Jones M, Kaufmann D, Kilungo A, McLain JET, Ochoa L, Root R, Sandhaus S, Sandoval F. Engaging Diverse Communities for Environmental Health Justice. October 2021. National Science Foundation’s AISL PI meeting.
  • Abrell L, Villagomez-Marquez N, Henson C, Palawat K, Foley T, Chorover J, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. Measurement and characterization of PFAS and organic contaminants in citizen scientists’ roof harvested rainwater. 69th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. November 2021. Philadelphia, PA.
  • 2019 2nd Cobre Valley Forum on Water, Globe, Gila County, Arizona. April 2019. Project Harvest: A Co-Created Citizen Science Rainwater Harvesting Program in Rural and Urban Arizona Communities [Presenter: Ramírez-Andreotta MD; Co-authors: Abrell LM, Mclain, JET, Kilungo AP, Root, RA, Sandoval F].
  • Water Research Resource Center Brown Bag Seminar, The University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. March 2019. Project Harvest Be Informed. Grow Smarter [Presenters: Ramirez-Andreotta MD, Sandoval F, Moses A, Solis-Leon J, Villagomez-Marquez N. Davis L, and Kaufmann D; Co-authors: Abrell LM, Mclain, JET, Kilungo AP, Root, RA].
  • Ramirez-Andreotta MD, Davis, L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Root R, Mclain JET, Abrell L, Sandoval F. March 2019. Effect of Environmental Monitoring Method on Participant Self-Efficacy for Science in Underrepresented Communities. 2019 Citizen Science Association Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • Villagómez-Márquez N, Montijo FJ, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Mclain JET, Root R, Sandoval F, Ramirez-Andreotta MD. July 2018.  Investigating chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) in rooftop harvested rainwater (HRW) via Co-Created Citizen Science by applying high-resolution liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HR-LC-MS/MS). North American Chemical Residue Workshop, Naples, Florida.
  • Sandhaus S, Kauffman D, Davis L, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Mclain JET, Root R, Sandoval F, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. May 2018. Advancing Informal Environmental Health STEM Learning through Co-Created Citizen Science. Teaching and Learning in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Toward a National and Collaborative for Food, Energy and Water Systems (NC-FEW). Washington, D.C. 
  • Ramirez-Andreotta MD, Abrell L, A. Kilungo, Kaufmann D, Mclain JET, Root R, Sandhaus S, Sandoval F. 14th Annual Biennial Conference of Science & Management on the Colorado Plateau & Southwest Region, Flagstaff, AZ. September 2017. Community science: public participation in harvested water and soil monitoring.
  • Mclain JET, Ramirez-Andreotta MD, Abrell L, Kilungo A, Kaufmann D, Root R Sandhaus S, Sandoval S. September 2017. Teaching harvested rainwater microbiology in Arizona communities: lessons learned. 14th Annual Biennial Conference of Science & Management on the Colorado Plateau & Southwest Region, Flagstaff, AZ.

Posters

  • Ramírez-Andreotta MD, Abrell L, Buxner S, Cortez I, Davis L, Dewey M, Foley T, Henriquez P, Jones M, Kaufmann D, Kilungo A, McLain JET, Ochoa L, Root R, Sandhaus S, Sandoval F. Engaging Diverse Communities for Environmental Health Justice. October 2021. National Science Foundation’s AISL PI meeting.
  • Villagómez-Márquez N, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Mclain JET, Root R, Sandoval F, Ramirez-Andreotta M.D. March 2020. Emerging contaminants in Roof-harvested Rainwater. Emerging Contaminants Summit 2020, Westminster, CO.
  • Henson C, Villagómez-Márquez, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Mclain JET, Root R, Sandoval F, Ramirez-Andreotta M.D. March 2020. Per- polyfluoroalkyl substances in Roof-harvested Rainwater. Emerging Contaminants Summit 2020, Westminster, CO.
  • Kauffman AA, Issacs K, Ramirez-Andreotta MD. May 2018.  Designing A Privacy-Preserving Geovisualization of Citizen-Collected Environmental Data. The University of Arizona Honors College, Tucson, AZ.
  • Moses A, Solis-Leon J, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Mclain JE, Root R, Sandoval F, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. April 2018.  The Volunteer Army: A Review of Ethical Concerns in Citizen Science. The University of Arizona SWESx, Tucson, AZ.
  • Solis-Leon J, Moses A, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Mclain JE, Root R, Sandoval F, Ramírez-Andreotta MD. April 2018.  Socio-demographics in Citizen Science: Does Governance Model Matter? The University of Arizona SWESx, Tucson, AZ.
  • Villagómez-Márquez N, Montijo FJ, Abrell L, Buxner S, Kilungo A, Mclain JE, Root R, Sandoval F, Ramirez-Andreotta MD. April 2018.  Investigating emerging organic contaminants in harvested rainwater via Co-Created Citizen Science: What is in your rainwater?  The University of Arizona SWESx, Tucson, AZ
  • Mathur, S., Abrell, L., Villagomez- Marquez, N., Palawat, K., Ramirez- Andreotta, M., McLain, J., Root, R., Buxner, S., Kilungo, A., Sandoval, F.,  What’s In Your Rainwater? Inorganic and Organic Contaminants Measured in Roof- Harvested Rainwater. KEYS Research Internship Poster Presentation, Tucson, AZ, USA, July 20, 2020 (poster).