Water Quality in NYC

What makes a watershed healthy, and what human activities put watershed at risk?  New York City green spaces are often assumed to be heavily contaminated. The goal of this two-week workshop is to prepare students with scientific practices needed to determine the health of an environment through water quality testing. Within this program, students will follow multi-step procedures that test water quality and make data driven conclusions on the health of the water.  We will also explore how nature and the environment is important to our community and to our own individual well being.