Join the Newtown Creek Alliance (NCA) and the North Brooklyn Boat Club for a special series of on-water tours to examine and discuss current water quality trends for Newtown Creek. NCA is soon to complete an intensive 6 month water sampling program in conjunction with LaGuardia Community College. We have been collected data on water […]
Mycoremediation and Medicinal Mushrooms with Tradd Cotter Saturday, July 30 7 to 9pm North Brooklyn Boat Club 51 Ash Street Brooklyn, NY 11222 Mushrooms can have many positive effects on human and environmental health. Mycoremediation increases soil health by filtering contaminants, hyperaccumulating heavy metals, or breaking complex toxins down into more fundamental chemistry so that […]
NCA is excited to continue work on the Greenpoint Bioremediation Project (gBP) in 2016. Bioremediation in practice is the deliberate use of plants and microorganisms to restore a healthier soil ecology, and safely break down toxins in surface soil by exploiting the naturally occurring metabolic pathways of microbes. Working with the newly formed NYC Urban Soils Institute […]
NCA is excited to launch Newtown Creek SAMPLES, an intensive water quality monitoring program funded by the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund and the Office of the New York State Attorney General and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The program will be run by NCA in conjunction with the Environmental Science department at LaGuardia […]
