Environmental Change In The Hudson Estuary Marshes Max Perez 1,Zhehan Huang 1,Dorothy Peteet 2, Sanpisa Sritrairat 2,Argie Miller 1, Baruch Tabanpour 1.

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Environmental Change In The Hudson Estuary Marshes Max Perez 1,Zhehan Huang 1,Dorothy Peteet 2, Sanpisa Sritrairat 2,Argie Miller 1, Baruch Tabanpour On-Site Coring Process Storage: Extraction: Looking for a suitable location: Results: Methods: A sample of a core is weighed and dried at 100ºC, then burned at 375ºC and weighed again. This will tell us the amount of organic matter (the weight lost after burning) as well as the inorganic matter (the remaining mass after burning) in that sample giving us a snapshot of the climate, ecosystem, and land-use present during that time. Sponsors: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) NASA New York City Research Initiative (NYCRI) Contributors: Dorothy Peteet ( P.I.) Sanpisa Sritrairat (Graduate Student) Argie Miller ( HS Teacher ) Max Perez ( NYCRI Research Apprentice ) Zhehan Huang (NYCRI Research Apprentice) Baruch Tabanpour (NYCRI Undergraduate Intern) N JAMAICA BAY MARSH Staten Is. Manitou Marsh Esopu s Inwo od The Dachnowski Russian corer This type of corer takes semi-cylindrical cores that can be easily stored and processed Loss On Ignition (LOI) Project Focus: A regional study of elemental composition and organic matter content in Hudson marsh and river cores. Locations: Focus wetlands are circled in red. Wetlands are a useful proxy for understanding the changes within an environment over time. Because of the anoxic conditions, marshes preserve leaves, seeds, pollen, and elemental composition in it‘s sediment, which can provide information about vegetational history, land use, climate and carbon storage over time. In order to obtain these preserved samples, cores must be taken in order to accurately study the sediments. The depth of a core is an ecological timeline from top to bottom. Depending on the variety of organic matter, plant species, and elemental composition, we can determine what happened around each sampling interval representing a specific time period. We do this with methods such as Loss on Ignition (LOI) and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF). Abstract: In the chart above, we can see an interesting upward trend in organic content in Big Egg (Jamaica Bay), Inwood (Manhattan), and Papscanee (Upstate New York). Spikes of organic content in previously thought to be very inorganic areas at the time were retested to eliminate as much human error as possible. However, the results were similar to the previous spikes in organic content. This shows that the organic percent in 3 very different wetlands have all increased over time, and that the organic content has increased or the inorganic content has declined. Conclusion / Future Research: Core samples indicate that LOI has increased in 3 different Hudson marshes through time. Using XRF (to be analyzed), we can provide a timeline of some of the pollution histories of the last 2 centuries and can document elemental changes through this time. They will provide a snapshot of the land use and possibly climate at the time they were taken. We hope to also measure carbon content of the marshes using the LOI data. More than 20 light & heavy elements detected Heavy Metals: Pb, Cu, As, Zn, and Cr Lithogenic Tracers: i.e. Ti, K “Elemental markers” can indicate land use changes, pollution history, chronology, and climate changes X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)