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* main function: to assist in community efforts to address aforementioned inequities, coordinating with local organizations and stakeholders to identify relevant and efficacious efforts for us to participate in
* main function: to assist in community efforts to address aforementioned inequities, coordinating with local organizations and stakeholders to identify relevant and efficacious efforts for us to participate in
'''History of the group:'''
'''History of the group:'''
started in August of 2022 By Zach Smith, the goal of the group was initially to identify and implement methods to test and address water, air, and soil quality issues. Many of our early meetings were spent attempting to create an investigative framework, which we realized required more knowledge of both community problems and current techniques. We thus spent time trying to find relevant community stakeholders and current community scientists working in environmental justice to have those conversations, which took longer than expected: one of our main takeaways in the creation of this project is that finding the right connections is both extremely difficult and extremely important for any meaningful scientific investigation. After a lot of time synthesizing our understanding,
started in August of 2022 By Zach Smith, the goal of the group was initially to identify and implement novel diagnostics and solutions to water, air, and soil quality issues. Many of our early meetings were spent attempting to create an investigative framework, which we required more conversations with both the affected communities and researchers currently working towards these goals. We thus spent time trying to find relevant community stakeholders and current community scientists working in environmental justice to have those conversations. We now work with those organizations to plan future public environmental justice events while continuing to pursue the investigation of novel solutions


previous workshops:
previous workshops:
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data was collected using hot and cold home water samples from 5 volunteers, as well as hot and cold samples from additional location from 1 volunteer's home.
data was collected using hot and cold home water samples from 5 volunteers, as well as hot and cold samples from additional location from 1 volunteer's home.
* takeaways: Due to the small sample size, this was more demonstrative of the relative capabilities of each test strip, but we hope to continue validating these test strips to determine the best one to later use in a larger scale workshop, which we would aim to capture more data points to determine more about the relative water quality of our community's home water supply
* takeaways: Due to the small sample size, this was more demonstrative of the relative capabilities of each test strip, but we hope to continue validating these test strips to determine the best one to later use in a larger scale workshop, which we would aim to capture more data points to determine more about the relative water quality of our community's home water supply

'''Possible Novel Solutions to Investigate (once funding is secured)'''
* biosensors to proactively monitor for HABs
* making novel instrumentation to specifically diagnose water, soil, and air pollution and contamination
* increased microbiome monitoring for both microbiome health information and for identification of novel microbes
* engineering novel microbes or enzymes to metabolize common pollutants

As current environmental justice efforts and resources are constantly evolving, please reach out to Zach Smith directly for information on current efforts and resources happening in your local community.
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