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.

Citizen science, sometimes called crowd-sourced science,  is when researchers engage with the local community, or even the global community to help gather data and solve problems. Scientific American has a page dedicated to the phenomena, and there seems to be no limit to what citizen scientists can do. Projects range from the search for life […]

Next Friday is Brooklyn College Science Research Day ! The Students that I’ve been working with at the Academy for Urban Planning will be presenting their research project. This year, they did a stormwater study around their school campus, which drains to Newtown Creek- a superfund site in Brooklyn. Check out their poster- I think they […]

Jessica Miller and I will be Speaking at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar Series at the CUNY Graduate Center this Thursday. We will be focusing on the history of the Gowanus Canal and competing visions for its future. Here is the announcement for the talk, hope to see you there!