Entries Tagged as 'Gowanus'

Thursday, October 10th, 2013

Research Update

Here is a video update about my research, including some preliminary survey results. Thanks to the New York New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program for filming the presentations at their Citizen Science Workshop.

Thursday, August 15th, 2013

Creative Stormwater Management: Sponge Park Edition

It was announced earlier this Summer that the Gowanus Sponge Park, designed by the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and dlandstudio, is going to happen! Construction should start next year and be completed in 2015. What is a “Sponge Park”? From what I can tell, “Sponge Park” is the way that creative people say “constructed wetland and bio-filtration system”. The word […]

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

Know your Sewershed!

As my friends who’ve recently made the mistake of asking me  how my day is going already know- I am currently compiling data from a community survey that I’m distributing as part of my dissertation research. A few weeks ago, I sent the survey out to selected households in the geographic area that contributes to […]

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