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Green Grant Update: Air Quality Monitoring

by Caspar Lant

This past summer, I flew to NYU’s Shanghai campus for two weeks. This was the culmination of a nearly two-year long project to develop a prototype of a low-cost air quality monitoring network. Ironically, the project both culminated and originated at NYU Shanghai. A few years back, I did a study abroad there. I was in the Cafeteria and started chatting with a fellow student about some circuit diagrams I had seen over her shoulder. She told me they were for an independent study class she was taking with a visiting professor (Kevin Cromar, now my advisor on the Green Grant project). As she explained it, the diagram was an existing design for an air quality monitor, which over the course of the semester she would be building from the ground-up with the rest of the class. I rushed to the professor’s office to ask if I could take the course as well.  Luckily, even though it was a week after the enrollment deadline, he obliged! Read more

Green Grant Update: Sustainability in Tisch Film Productions

Sustainability in Tisch Film Productions was focused on discovering and creating a guide for Tisch Film students to use to make their film sets sustainable. As the Executive Producer of Mary and the Mob, an Advanced Television Pilot that was filmed in the Fall of 2018, it was my goal along with Bradley Sachs, the Sustainability Supervisor and Vanneeda Keowmang, the Sustainability Producer, to create a fully sustainable set. The end objective was to not only create our own sustainable set, but to create a documentary and guide that provided students with an easy-to-follow outline on how to make their own sets sustainable. Before encountering this project, we found that there was no guide for a set of our scale as larger scale sets in the industry are slowly implementing the practices themselves.  Read more

GREEN GRANT: Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab

My Green Grants project is the Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab, which is a small team of students, artists, ethnographers, and media designers who produce a podcast about climate change. We invite scientists, writers, and artists to talk about a particular organism, ecology or site that they study, and the interdisciplinary methods or tools that they’ve used or developed in the course of their research. We also discuss their teaching practices or how they engage others around difficult conversations about climate change. What makes our podcast different from other podcasts about climate change, I think, is that we are interested in giving voice to the human interviewee, as well as the thing or place that they study. So we aim to combine interviews with field recordings and experimental soundscapes to give listeners a more intimate and visceral sense of the liveliness of worlds outside. I’m interested in experimenting with ways of listening to nonhumans, or allowing animals, plants, microbes, water to speak alongside the human voice. 

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Green Grant Recipient: March for Science NYC

Author, Ingrid Parades (pictured second from right), standing next to her friend and colleague, Omar (far right).

Ingrid J. Paredes is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2015 and 2016. Here’s an update from Ingrid about March for Science! 

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