PACE STUDENTS AND FACULTY COLLABORATE TO DELIVER ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
Imagine being concerned that the community park you love may be an unhealthy environment with contaminated soil, air, or water that could make you or someone in your family ill. That is a concern for many in lower Manhattan, and it is one that Pace faculty and students have worked toward alleviating by providing testing and analysis, and offering solutions to help park officials ensure their park is a healthy place for everyone to enjoy.
It is our very own Environmental Studies and Science (ESS) Department that has addressed one such park in Pace University’s backyard in lower Manhattan.
With this issue top of mind, Assistant Professor S. Perl Egendorf, PhD, went into action. Her Fundamentals of Environmental Science II course entailed collaboration with the nonprofit organization Gotham Park in New York City to provide data the organization would use to inform their activities and offerings to the public in the namesake park nestled below the Brooklyn Bridge. (Gotham Park is a new park that seeks to unlock the potential of “the forgotten spaces under the Manhattan side of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge”).
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