Save the Date! Sunday, January 10, 2021 4:00-5:15 PM
Soil, Health, and the Ecosystem: Why don’t we get the link?
Guest speaker: Jessica Chiartas, a PhD Candidate in Soils & Biogeochemistry at UC Davis
Soil, Health, and the Ecosystem: Why don’t we get the link?
The Zoom link is: https://zoom.us/j/92492607349 (Meeting ID: 924 9260 7349)
Care for God’s Creation Committee invites you to expand the Kiss the Ground conversation from soil carbon to understand soil and ecosystem health more broadly. Jessica will give an overview of soil and show how it connects to human health, community health, and planetary health at large. Why are people resistant to scientific ideas like climate change? Come and listen to her story!
Prior to academia, she spent 5 years in corporate sales for Fortune 500 companies. Her experience in the pharmaceutical industry piqued her interest in the impact of antibiotics, both on human and environmental health; and sent her down the literal and proverbial wormhole to soil. The more she learned, the more she began to recognize the central role of soil in food and agriculture, health and nutrition, climate and the environment and decided to pursue a PhD in hopes of helping to bridge the gap between science, policy and the populace.
In 2017, she received a grant through the USDA-NRCS to create a website and a series of videos that highlight the value and importance of soil; educating and inspiring us to the connection between soil and life and empowering young people with soil-based solutions to some of our greatest challenges. She is also passionate about finding ways to partner with agriculture and industry to bring soil health management to scale.