Toyota Tapestry Award : Barnard students and their families will become West River Memorial Park Stewards. Stewards will help to clean the park and help sample for dissolved oxygen and keystone species around the West River Canal. With the help of university researchers, soil, plants and invertebrates collected around the perimeter of the West River Memorial Park Canal will be sampled for mercury before and after the retrofitting of West River floodgates. In cooperation with researchers and park rangers, stewards will be responsible for monitoring and communicating their findings to the community.
