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| abusaud23 | "This is a nice startup idea to work for as seeing the water scarcity in some places & in the near future too. Top MBA/pgm colleges in India " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | "Hi @smmontgom - Apologies for the slow reply, we've had a busy week! Off the top of my head, the lead-specific research in North Brooklyn has been ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @smmontgom , I enjoyed reading your poster on your previous sampling protocol. Thank you for sharing! I am a big fan of publishing data in this ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| smmontgom | "@liz there is indeed a lot of potential synergy between what we're doing and the NYC DEP testing. Essentially we're building on their methods and u..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| smmontgom | "Hi @Bronwen I'd love to make a connection at Newtown Creek Conservancy and the North Brooklyn Boat Club if you wouldn't mind putting me in touch. M..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "A lengthier write-up on this effort by @smmontgom Crowdsourcing lead testing in NYC parks and playgrounds https://publiclab.org/notes/smmontgom/09..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| liz | "NYC has a robust lead testing program through the Department of Environmental Protection. I am wondering if this project can use their methods and ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "Hi @Bronwen -- a slightly delayed reply here. I'm sort of the middle man for this one. @smmontgom-- do you want to check out the orgs mentioned her..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| nshapiro | "Very cool! it would be great to have more of that info on your sampling and analyzing approach on your website as most project don't have as advanc..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| smmontgom | "Hi @nshapiro, We started out using computer vision to analyze simple strip tests like you can get at your local hardware store for their ease of us..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| nshapiro | "Interesting! could you post more details on what kind of lead test is used and what your sampling protocol is? thanks! looking forward to learning ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | "Hi @read_holman -- I might have mentioned the Newtown Creek Conservancy and the North Brooklyn Boat Club (there is a lot of overlap between the two..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| smmontgom | "@xuhulk awesome! Bedstuy and LES are 2 likely hotspots for lead. You can sign up to be a tester at https://www.citizenspring.org/ Corlears Hook Par..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| xuhulk | "I'm based in Bed-Stuy and the Lower East Side, and I'm very interested! " | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| read_holman | "@liz Hi there -- were you the person who mentioned a water monitoring effort with a college in Queens? Wondering if that'd be a group that would be..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "The older usp method was based on hydrogen sulfide. This was later changed to a thioacetamide based test. This is better, but still not good. The..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Kshatrya | "If you are looking for specific metals, there should be some reagent that will precipitate or indicate that metal. But if you're looking for all th..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Kshatrya | "If you are looking for specific metals, there should be some reagent that will precipitate or indicate that metal. But if you're looking for all th..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "I like energy dispersive X-Ray florescence (EDXRF). It's non-distructive, low power, and relatively cheap. On the down side, it's hard to calibra..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| nedhorning | "Hi Johan, Although a shift in the red edge could indicate heavy metal stress it could also indicate a host of other types of stress. Monitoring th..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| btbonval | "I think it would be difficult to measure for heavy metals without interacting with the plant in some way, as the metals are unlikely to be hanging ..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "cool! you can also buy humic acids: http://www.planetnatural.com/product-category/growing-indoors/plant-nutrients/fulvic-humic-acid/ " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "I'm doing a test today putting one bottle of 3 identically prepared Onta #1 samples of crude in mineral oil in the freezer, to see if temperature a..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "exciting news re: humic acid skewing the spectra towards the red and heavier oils towards the blue. can we order samples of the same oils they're ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago |