The New York / New Jersey metropolitan region is home to several projects with many partnering organizations, community groups, and individuals. The image above shows Eymund Diegel, archivist for Proteus Gowanus and Public Laboratory Board Member. 

##Gowanus Canal Mapping##
The <a href="http://gowanuscanalconservancy.org/">Gowanus Canal Conservancy</a> is conducting environmental investigations in the Gowanus Canal sub-watershed by using <a href="/tool/balloon-mapping">balloon mapping</a> to capture aerial imagery once per season over the past year. We are also flying a <a href="/tool/stereo-camera">stereo camera rig</a> to collect <a href="/tool/near-infrared-camera">infrared imagery</a>. We are documenting patterns/concentrations of vegetation or possible contaminants, monitoring the stormwater retention design interventions that the GCC is installing along the canal edge, and searching for unknown or unidentified pipes or sources of ground water entering the canal. In the long-term, this inquiry effort seeks to address the 300M gallons of untreated sewage that will continue entering the canal yearly even after the EPA finishes their Superfund clean-up of the toxic sediments at the bottom of the canal.

Just starting up is a New Town Creek monitoring project, where the first set of imagery was collected from the Riverkeeper boat during a shoreline infrastructure assessment in summer 2011. New Town Creek is also a EPA Superfund site within the five boroughs of NYC. 

Another regional project is Grassroots Newark, focused on development and community issues on both sides of the Passaic River:  
http://grassrootsnewark.wordpress.com/

<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tns_geoclub">The New School Geo Club</a> is a newly formed student group that has been active mapping occupation patterns in Washington Square Park among other sites. 

See pictures from the October 2010 workshop held at Union Square with Parsons The New School for Design:  
http://grassrootsmapping.org/search/parsons