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Completed in 2012 Client: Linda Lilienfeld and CUAHSI 5:00 minutes

THE STORY OF FLO: A WATER MOLECULE’S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND

Water is found everywhere on earth, it’s essential for life. It’s unique combination of physical properties are essential to the dynamics of all of earth’s systems. One of these properties that’s important to our story today is that water dissolves many many materials.
Water plays an important role in many of the Earth’s deep processes with the ability to penetrate even the smallest places and transport dissolved materials everywhere and anywhere underground.

Makeathon Hackathon

175 brains. 3 days 2 nights. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard in NYC. A makeathon/hackathon to develop affordable assistive technology for people with disabilities

Pythium Suppression with Vermicompost

he microbes found in vermicompost can help protect plants from disease. Using line animation and video microscopy, we describe how the plant pathogen, pythium aphanidermatum is unable to infect a germinating cucumber seed planted in a potting mix containing vermicompost.

Accommodations to Keep the Best

Clara Johnson, a lifelong employee of the USDA’s Forest Service, a Federal agency, describes her work-life and shows her career continuing as her life changes, revealing the layers of accommodations enabling this.