Organochlorines in New York and the Hudson River: Sources, Environmental Distribution, and Health Risks

Students

Outreach through Education

The Mount Sinai Superfund Basic Research Program has established partnerships with the High School for Environmental Studies (HSES) in Manhattan and with The River Project, a non-profit marine biology monitoring station that provides summer internships for New York City high school students.

As part of these partnerships, students:

• Participate in workshops emphasizing the effects of contamination on environmental health;
• Take field trips to sites along the Hudson River;
• Do internships at Mount Sinai School of Medicine;
• Learn about the ecology of the Hudson River watershed and
• Perform lab and field experiments related to Hudson River contamination

Students from New York City's High School for Environmental Studies visit the now-abandoned General Electric plant in Hudson Falls, New York.

The River Project

The River Project, founded in 1986, operates a private marine biology monitoring station at Pier 26, Manhattan. This nonprofit environmental science organization is dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Hudson River ecosystem through scientific research and hands-on educational programs. The River Project has also established an experimental facility at Pier 26 to restore an ecologically stressed habitat along the Manhattan shoreline. The River Project's Marine Biology Internship Program offers opportunities for high school and college level students to become directly involved in the study of urban wildlife and temporary habitat. This program also provides graduate students with an informed setting in which to pursue independent environmental science research projects.

If you are interested in participating in the Internship program, please visit www.riverproject.org/MBIP_description-application_2005-2006.pdf to download the application.

High School for Environmental Studies

The High School for Environmental Studies (HSES) was established by the New York City Board of Education in 1992. The founders of HSES recognized there would be numerous career opportunities in the environmental field in the twenty-first century, so they used college preparatory curriculum to develop a program that would become a national model for urban environmental education. HSES was not only created to help promote an environmentally conscious workforce and citizenry, but also to create an exemplary urban high school with a student body that reflected New York City's diversity.

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