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Air Quality Impacts Of The 2020 West Coast Wildfire Season On Kingston, Ny, Mikala Jordan L'Hote

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Wildfires are natural events that occur in arid, dry areas throughout the world, burning surrounding vegetation and biomass and releasing massive smoke plumes into the atmosphere. These plumes can contain and variety of pollutants that can be impactful to both environmental and human health, including carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), ozone (O3), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), and black carbon (BC) (Wu et al., 2018). With the effects of climate change on the rise, larger fires, more fire counts, and long duration burns are paired with broader and more extensive smoke plumes, many are beginning to question …

"Pcb Pandemic": How Polychlorinated Biphenyls Plagued The Hudson And Why Commercial Fishermen Were Left Behind, Morgan Averill Gray

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project Submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College

Potential For Human Exposure To Legionella Near Newtown Creek In Brooklyn, New York, Azlan Maqbool

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

The air environment is known to contain a wide array of microbes. Urban coastal environment studies have shown plenty of interchange between land and sea bacteria. While there have been several studies analyzing the transfer between aquatic and terrestrial microbial communities, few have looked at the impact this transfer might have on individuals. Moreover, facilities like wastewater treatment plants situated in dense urban environments may play an important role in the proliferation of potentially pathogenic bacteria to nearby human populations. Wastewater treatment plants are known to be associated …

I Have Never Stepped In The Same River Twice, Madison Hailey Emond

Senior Projects Spring 2018

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus

I never knew that I would learn to walk the Sawkill River in moonlight, that I would come to know its contours and the depths of its waters so well. I never expected that the tree roots and rocks that lay in my path to its banks would know my gait so fully.

This project began as a reaction to the hurricanes that struck the Caribbean last fall. It felt apt to question landscape imagery and how …