Project:

What can the aquatic macro-invertebrates of the Morningside Park Lake tell us about the quality of the water?

Students:

Akiria Ford, Ashley Arias

School:

Wadleigh Secondary School For The Performing and Visual Arts, Manhattan

Mentors:

Yelyzaveta Kalinichenko

Abstract:

In this project, we are going to Morningside Lake to find out the quality of the water based on the aquatic macro-invertebrates that live there. During our time at the lake, we will collect some samples of water. We hypothesize or predict that we are going to find many diverse aquatic macro-invertebrates throughout our exploration. This is our school second year participating in this project and we will continue to be involve in order to keep track of the biodiversity alternations within the lake. If there are any changes in the lake that are life threatening we will investigate those changes and if possible stop them.

Poster:

Team samples: