Karen Beljan, BS '05, Environmental Engineering
Beljan, of Eden, New York, evaluated remediation alternatives to improve the water quality of Onondaga Lake, ultimately helping to develop a method to aerate the lake that would improve the water and ecosystem.
(Photo: KC Kratt, MFA '84)
GBF cruises along a beach shore, and offers itself as a resting spot in places it deems clean enough for swimming. Over time it maps paths of least contamination and highest relative pleasure for fish and people. GBF assesses the current state of the waters with a three-tiered sensing system informed by best practices of recreational water quality assessment science: Established metrics (algae, chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen and others), experimental metrics (near real-time in-situ e-coli, wave motion) and untested metrics (the presence and sounds of fish and crustaceans) are combined and compared with post swimming experience surveys to create a probabilistic, qualitative measure of water quality; the swimming pleasure measure (SPM). This metric combines human and machine experience to a joint "knowing" neither humans nor machines alone can have
Date Open: Mar 1, 2009 to Dec 20, 2010
Suggested Skill Set: maintenance,
trouble shooting,
programming,
monitor surveys,
swimming (yes!)
handicraft skills
Compensation: Credit, Voluntary, Work Study
Professor(s): Marc Böhlen / Joe Atkinson (marcbohlen@acm.org)
Department: Media Study / Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Address: 231 Center For The Arts
Phone: (716)645-6902
Website: http://www.realtechsupport.org/new_...