2019. Students voluntarily freeze from the waist down in the name of science.
December 04, 2019
Open gallery
Two dedicated students out in Blind Brook assessing nutrient content, temperatures, and dissolved solids, potentially a result of our neighbor- Westchester County Airport. (Photo creds to Dakota)
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Two dedicated students out in Blind Brook assessing nutrient content, temperatures, and dissolved solids, potentially a result of our neighbor- Westchester County Airport. (Photo creds to Dakota)
These planes are obvious noise pollution, but we need to talk about these dissolved solids that are coming from the airport! #badneighbors?
By Kim Robeson, Anton Creutzfeldt, Matthew Graham, and Zachary Dicanio
As it gets cold and the seasons switch, most would prefer to be bundled up indoors. Not many would voluntarily be waist deep in a stream of cold water, though this group showed that for science, nothing is too difficult. Standing out in different locations of the blind brook stream on multiple different days, they measured a variety of different qualities of the water and determined the stream had a higher than normal nutrient and dissolved solids count. The flow rate was the highest at the Anderson Hill Road site and they also observed a consistent temp, but a decrease in that temp over experiment days.
It’s impossible to ignore the airport nearby, with loud planes passing by periodically. Most don’t consider the amount of chemicals displaced by the take off of these planes, but thanks to the observed higher nutrient and dissolved solids from their experiment, we can start to understand the impact human activity and specifically airplanes are playing on neighboring water systems.
