Project:

Using algae as bioindicator of a river's health

Students:

Samantha Ratner, Kian Yoo-Sharifi

School:

Ethical Culture Fieldston,

Mentors:

Adriana Andrade

Abstract:

For the Urban Barcode project, we have decided to investigate the various levels of pollution in the New York City rivers. Our goal is to do this via using certain types of algae as a bioindicator: we hypothesize that if we can isolate algae, we can use this as a way to tell the status of the environment

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