Science After Dark: Ask A Scientist (Pier 40 Wetlab)

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  Andrea Silverman

  Andrea Silverman is an Associate Professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Urban, and Environmental Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Dr. Silverman's research focuses on water quality, wastewater treatment, waterborne pathogens, and urban flooding, with an overarching goal to protect public health and environmental quality. In addition to laboratory-based research on the detection and control of waterborne pathogens, Dr. Silverman works on applied urban projects, including FloodNet, which is working to develop and install sensor networks to measure hyperlocal street-level flooding in cities; through these projects she collaborates with local and federal government agencies, as well as community-based organizations in New York City.

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  Syl Foisy

  Syl Foisy (he/him) is a PhD candidate at NASA GISS and Columbia University studying aerosols, the tiny liquid and solid particles in the atmosphere that have an outsized influence on our climate, our weather, and the air we breathe. Syl is also a social media creator with over two million followers, and an aspiring science communicator. In his personal capacity, he recently walked from NYC to DC to support weather and climate science.

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  Ricardo Toledo-Crow

  Ricardo Toledo-Crow is the head of the Next Generation Sensor Laboratory (NGENS) at the Environmental Sciences Initiative at CUNY's Advanced Science Research Center. The Lab is a resource for the design, fabrication, characterization and deployment of novel sensing instruments and networks for environmental monitoring and research. The NGENS Lab is also a resource open to anyone interested in the development of novel instrumentation. His background is in physics with a Ph.D. in Optics and Imaging Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. As an instrumentation specialist he has contributed to several scientific fields ranging from astronomy, proteomics, neuroscience, dermatology and cancer research, to nanoscience and environmental monitoring. His experience in industry was at Thermo-Electron Corporation (now Thermo Fisher Scientific) where he developed and commercialized technology from the Dutch Technology powerhouse TNO. He later joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to start the Research Engineering Lab for the development of advanced instrumentation for biomedical research. His interests at ASRC are in studying and making low-power, low-profile, low-cost sensors using the current explosion of microtechnology driven by the consumer market of cellular phones, personal cameras etc., with the goal of creating densely sampling environmental monitoring networks that are widely accessible and available to multiple communities in NYC.

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