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EUS students  research and calculate the stream flow discharge 
at the mouth of the Saw Kill. Photo by Sarah Wallock ’19
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The Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water takes research outside the lab, connecting with grassroots efforts to protect the environment and offering students opportunities to work in an interdisciplinary way.

Our Projects

  • A Community Resource
    Our goal is to develop accessible, applicable, community-centered solutions to local and regional environmental problems. Currently, we tackle these problems in courses throughout the College, in faculty-directed student research, and through community- and student-run environmental monitoring programs.
  • Bard Community Science Lab
  • Photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00
    Community Science Coalition
  • Kingston Air Quality Initiative
  • Roe Jan Water Monitoring
  • Saw Kill Water Monitoring

Research + Engagement

These Bard College programs bring theory to practice by linking coursework, critical thinking, and engagement activities.
  • Engaged Liberal Arts + Sciences
  • Environmental + Urban Studies 
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Selected Senior Projects

  • South Twin Lake Water Quality Report
  • Long-Term Changes in Biotic Integrity
  • Knowing Water: Science and the Politics of Knowledge Production along the Saw Kill
  • Influence of Sewage and Sewage Infrastructure on Microbial Aerosols above an Urban Waterway
  • Influence of a Waterway on the Microbial Colonization of Riparian Vegetation
  • Nitrate Loading in the Saw Kill Watershed
  • From the Headwaters to the Bay: Stories of the Saw Kill
  • River Beneath the Street
  • Troubled Waters: Drinking Water Quality, Environmental Injustice, and the Politics of Permissibility in Newburgh, NY

Peer-Reviewed Research

  • Antibiotic Pollution in the Environment: From Microbial Ecology to Public Policy
  • Triclosan Alters Microbial Communities in Freshwater Microcosms
  • Single-Indicator Strategies Treat Symptoms, Not Sources of Sewage Contamination
  • Challenges to Managing Microbial Fecal Pollution in Coastal Environments
  • Comparison of Bacterial Diversity in Air and Water of a Major Urban Center
  • The Biology of Fog: Results from Coastal Maine and Namib Desert Reveal Common Drivers of Fog Microbial Composition
  • Onshore Wind Speed Modulates Microbial Aerosols along an Urban Waterfront Culturable Bioaerosols along an Urban Waterfront Are Primarily Associated with Coarse Particle

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