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 […]

When I was a freshman in college, I took an oceanography course. Being a nerd, I still remember one of the questions on our final exam:

“You MUST go swimming in New York City. Explain where you would choose to […]

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 […]

I have been noticing a lot of talk lately about the proposed keystone pipeline and all the jobs it would or would not have created.  Then I stumbled across this interesting article from Daily Progress about how […]

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 […]

My husband is an avid surfer- as are many of the friends I collected while living in Florida for 10 years. Yet somehow even living on a barrier island and working for a stormwater utility– I did not think much […]

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 […]

This should not be a surprise to you if you’ve been keeping up with the local headlines, or perhaps the amazing HBO series Bored to Death– which dedicated an entire episode to this pressing issue.

Every time […]

As a Maryland native and a stormwater professional- it’s hard to believe I’ve held off on this one for so long, but after seeing headlines like this, and this, and this– I decided it was time to do some […]

The record setting rainfall we’ve had over the past few days has caused yet another round of combined sewage overflows (CSOs) into the Gowanus Canal. While out for a walk today, I took these shots of the sewage […]

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 […]

Stay tuned for posts recalling my research adventures in the toxic, slimy, BEAUTIFUL waters of NYC!