Project:

Odonate Diversity in Van Cortlandt Park

Students:

Rachel Youngwood, Genevieve Paul, Abigail Behrendt

School:

Ethical Culture Fieldston School, The Bronx

Mentors:

Howard Waldman

Abstract:

We will collect Odonate specimens from different places in Van Cortlandt Lake and then analyze their DNA through extraction, amplification, and electrophoresis. We will then correlate which species were found relative to water quality in the different places in the lake.

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