Project:

Tardigrades of New York City: Decline of Polyextremophile Diversity in an Urban Ecosystem

Students:

Patricia Weinstein, Edwin Lin

Institution:

American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan

Mentors:

David Kizirian

Abstract:

Tardigrades are incredibly resilient micro metazoans that can survive in environments inhospitable for most organisms. Our main goal was to determine if there were any populations of these tiny creatures present in the certain environments in New York City and New Jersey and how large these populations were in those areas.

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