Science After Dark! Secret Science Club dives back into the “Wetlab” in Lower Manhattan
Thursday, September 24 @ 6:30PM, $10. (Reserve your tickets.)
Secret Science Club is teaming up with Hudson River Park on Manhattan’s Pier 40 to explore our amazing atmosphere and changing climate.
Join us with atmospheric scientist Syl Foisy & environmental engineers Andrea Silverman and Ricardo Toledo-Crow as we take a look at our weirding weather, recent mega-storms, and how NYC’s scientists are working to help communities affected by warmer, wetter, smokier skies.
Before & After the Talks
--Get up close and personal with wildlife from NYC’s liquid wilderness. Check out the exhibits & aquariums in the Wetlab, filled with marine creatures that live right under our noses alongside Wall Street, the West Village, and Chelsea.
--Imbibe thirst-quenching beers & soft drinks in our “Ebb Tide Lounge”
--See a live demonstration of NYC’s new flood-finding sensors
Get $10 tickets here (drinks included)!
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.
Andrea Silverman is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Urban & Environmental Engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. Her research focuses on water quality and urban flooding, with an overarching goal of protecting 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 New York City and beyond.
Ricardo Toledo-Crow is the head of the Next Generation Sensor Laboratory (NGENS) in the Environmental Sciences Initiative at CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center. As an instrumentation specialist, he has contributed to several scientific fields, including astronomy, proteomics, neuroscience, cancer research, and environmental monitoring. His interests at NGENS are in studying and making low-power, low-profile, low-cost sensors with the goal of creating densely sampling environmental monitoring networks that are widely accessible to communities in NYC.
This program meets Thursday, September 24, 6:30PM at the Wetlab on Hudson River Park’s Pier 40. (The entrance to the pier is at the intersection of W. Houston St and West St in Manhattan.) Subway: 1 to Houston St; C or E to Spring St.
Tickets are $10. Click here to reserve your spot!
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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