Team:Minnesota/Human Practices
Team:Minnesota
#Minnesota 2018
Human practice: St. Croix Watershed Research Station | Science Museum of Minnesota The St. Croix Watershed Research Station is home to a team of scientists who study water around the world. They seek to better understand the challenges facing clean water and humanity's relationship with our most precious resource. Their research provides essential data to improve water quality and reduce pollution of lakes and rivers. Their fields of study include land use, climate change, atmospheric deposition, and other factors that affect watersheds, thus contributing to scientific understanding of aquatic systems. Since 1989, these studies have taken them from the St. Croix River to Mongolia, Alaska, the Arctic, and beyond. The findings regularly inform policy, management, and the public. Benjamin Alva and Savannah Lockwood presented the iGEM UMN 2018 project to the St. Croix Watershed Research Station research team and accompanying facility staff on August 21st. Mercury pollution has been a heavily studied discipline at their facility, cataloging mercury contamination levels across Minnesota and elucidating the biological mechanisms that lead to methylmercury accumulation and ecological circulation. The research team provided iGEM UMN with insightful advice and opinions regarding the testing and implementation of our biotechnology in freshwater systems.
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