Press

2023    A real-time flood tracker is expanding to help New Yorkers during major storms. Rosemary Misdary, Gothamist, 16 February

2023    Rockaway Slated For New Flood Sensors. Kerry Murtha, The Wave, 9 January

2022    Five Ways to Prevent the Next Sandy. Anne Barnard, New York Times, 28 October

2022    A Decade After Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers Still Fear the Rain. Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 21 October

2022    NYU is building an ultrasonic flood sensor network in New York’s Gowanus neighborhood. Andrew Tarantola, Engadget, 28 September

2022    New technology could improve NYC response, preparedness for future floods. News 12 The Bronx, 16 September

2022    Dashboard showing real-time street flooding data is now live. Ari Ephraim Feldman, NY1, 9 September

2022    New public online website tool reports street-level flooding in real time. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 6 September

2022    One year after Hurricane Ida, NYC updates its water infrastructure in the hopes of preventing another tragedy. Josh Niland, Archinect News, 2 September

2022    1 year after Ida, New York City to build 2,000 new rain gardens, install flood sensors citywide. Natalie Duddridge, CBS New York, 1 September

2022    Flood sensor project will offer city real-time data as storms intensify. Ari Ephraim Feldman, NY1, 4 April

2022    Radio interview on NPR/WNYC:  “Where does toilet water go?” Science Friday with Ira Flatow, 11 March

2021    Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution. Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 3 November

2021    Flooding shows risks to city posed by increasing storm deluges. Ari Ephraim Feldman, NY1, 9 July

2021    Data Project May Drive Policy for Hyperlocal Flooding in NYC. Elias Gbadamosi, Government Technology, 24 February

2020    What New York City’s Sewers Reveal About the Virus. Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 8 December

2020   Scientists are monitoring New York’s sewers, hoping to identify coronavirus clusters. Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 9 December

2020    We helped a New York sewage plant check poop for the coronavirus. Nicole Wetsman, The Verge, 10 November

2020    NYC Is Working On Tracking Coronavirus Through The Sewers. Caroline Lewis, Gothamist, 7 July

2020    New York City Considers Testing Sewage for Coronavirus. Melanie Grayce West, Wall Street Journal, 1 July

2020    Will Travel be Safer by 2022?  Lina Zeldovich, BBC, 22 June

2020    How Wastewater Could Help Track the Spread of the New Coronavirus . Katherine Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 

2020    Tests to Detect Coronavirus on Surfaces Show Mixed Results. Lina Zeldovich, Undark, 5 May

2020    Sunlight’s Ultraviolet Wavelengths Have Strengths, Limitations in Disinfecting Against the Coronavirus. Jessica Seigel, Washington Post, 24 April