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Final Progress Reports: Dartmouth College: Community Engagement Core

Superfund Research Program

Community Engagement Core

Project Leader: Anna M. Adachi-Mejia
Grant Number: P42ES007373
Funding Period: 2014-2021

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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2020 

During this reporting period the Community Engagement Core (CEC) focused on the Dartmouth Dragonfly Mercury and All About Arsenic citizen science projects. Despite the pandemic, three schools participated in the Dragonfly Project and all of the dragonfly mercury data that has been collected by high school classrooms at seven schools and one community conservation organization in New Hampshire and Vermont from 2011-2020 has been migrated to Anecdata.org, a free online citizen science platform. Some of the data generated by these students has contributed to the National Park Service Dragonfly Mercury Project which utilizes dragonfly larvae to provide insight into mercury presence and exposure risk within the participating parks (Eagles-Smith 2020). The All About Arsenic Project is funded by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) to support the study of arsenic in well water in Maine and New Hampshire by high school classrooms and use the research to teach data science, improve data literacy, and increase the number of families testing their well water for arsenic. A total of 25 schools in both states have previously or are currently participating and over 1800 well water samples have been collected. The CEC participated in the development of the arsenic infographic fact sheet for private well users in New Hampshire (NH) to explain the importance of testing their water for arsenic, and promoted its online arsenic training module for medical providers, which has reached 65 providers to help them understand the significance and health impacts of naturally occurring arsenic in NH.

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