Project:

Biodiversity of Fungi in New York

Students:

Brian Lancea, Xavier Garcia

School:

Forest Hills High School, Queens

Mentors:

Lauren Scanlon

Abstract:

Biodiversity in soil and fungi are spoken about and studied less than it should in areas such as New York and people don’t see the importance of how different soils have certain effects on bacterias and fungi in the area around them. We want to be able to show how much an under-studied thing really has an effect on our environment that we live in and pass by without having a second thought in our minds. Like stated, we will collect soil samples from areas of Queens and test them out to see what is in the soil that we are near ourselves every single day. We’ll be looking for behavioral patterns in the soils and similarities and differences with the physical features of the fungi we detect.

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