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Spring 2025 Final Capstone Presentations

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

Here is a short recap video on capstones presentations by Jason Redman in the Division of Science: Here are all of the presentations: Three capstone research teams gave their final presentations. First is Waste-to-Wings: An Approach to Wastewater in NYC for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production. Second (at 36 minutes) is Harlem Community Energy: Toward Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings and Virtual Power Plants. Third (at 1 hour & 18 minutes) is Assessing Climate Resilience of NYC’s Living Shorelines: Ecosystem, Infrastructure, and Community-Based Assessment Approach. For the link to the Mid-Year presentations, please e-mail [email protected]

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Strategies to address Flooding in Lokoja through Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

By Tawfiq Zubairu, Current Sustainability Student As part of our spring ’25 capstone project, my partner Wasiu Alimi and I have been working on developing strategies to address flooding in Lokoja through Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) that also integrate renewable energy generation. Being a Kogi native, this work is personally meaningful. While it’s a departure from my electrical engineering background, it has been incredibly rewarding to develop new skills in geospatial and meteorological analysis and spark an interest in the dynamic interactions between urban environments and natural systems. A highlight of this journey was attending the Waterfront Alliance‘s annual …

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Nadia Samaroo, current Sustainability Graduate Student

Nadia Samaroo Reflects on NOAA Fellowship and Research

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

By Nadia Samaroo: Sustainability Graduate Student; NOAA EPP/ MSI Center for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing Technologies II, Cohort III Fellow Over the past few months, I’ve been conducting research on living shorelines in New York City—specifically at West Pond in Jamaica Bay—to study how the area’s vegetation has recovered since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. This project is part of my research with NOAA CESSRST (Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies), where I’ve been combining both remote sensing data and fieldwork observations to better understand the shoreline’s recovery. My research looks at whether there has been …

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Divya Fellowship Presentation

SUS Student Completes UNH Sustainability Institute Fellowship

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

Over the Summer of 2024, current Sustainability Student Divyaprabha Chandrasekar completed a fellowship with the University of New Hampshire’s Sustainability Institute. The annual paid fellowship program places qualified students from universities all over the country with various partner organizations to work on wide range of sustainability projects. Divya noted “it’s an amazing opportunity and UNH has more areas of interest and resources to work with on sustainability parameters that CCNY sustainability students could check out.” Her fellowship focused on sustainable interior design materials with Stibler Associates. The fellowship program also brings together each cohort for a professional development retreat and …

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Jerilys Perez presents on CCNY Campus Sustainability for the capstone team's final presentation in the Spring, 2023 semester.

Decarbonize CCNY

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

Beginning with Professor Stephanie Rose’s capstone team project in 2022, a student-led decarbonization effort has gained momentum on campus. Here is a roundup of some progress to date, including the work of the Sustainability Students. In the Spring of 2024, the PSC-CUNY Environmental Justice Working group launched a plan to hold Decarbonization Town Halls on all CUNY Campuses. The first took place in May at Brooklyn College. With support from PSC-CUNY, Public Power NY, and NYPIRG, CCNY hosted a Town Hall on September 26th, 2024. Below is the video of that event. In Fall of 2024, capstone team Dave Myers, …

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Final Capstone Presentations, Spring 2024

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

Four final capstone presentations. First is Retrofitting Subdivisions for Sustainability: An Example from Latin America. Second (at 29 minutes) is Comparing Carbon Emissions in Residential Buildings: Embodied Versus Operational Emissions. Third (at 58 minutes) is Climate Justice and Urban Resilience in NYC. Fourth (at an hour and 26 minutes) is Reducing Human Health Risk and Exposure to Wastewater Spills in Coastal Environments: Analyzing Water Quality and Inundation Using Remote Sensing Tools in the Tijuana River

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Team in Blackstone Innovation LaunchPad

Sustainability Student Participates in Blackstone LaunchPad Innovation Sprint

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

By Mitaly Chakraborty This weekend, I participated in the Blackstone LaunchPad Innovation Sprint alongside my incredible friends Mayesha Fahmida (CCNY), Nayeli (John Jay), Darlyn Pacheco (Queensborough CC), and Kay Jesly (Borough of Manhattan CC). Blackstone Launchpad provided three intriguing tasks for us. Choosing from the three challenges, I opted to collaborate with the L’Oreal team. We conducted a CUNY-wide Innovation Sprint Case Study on Biolage Marketing Strategy. We concentrated on how Biolage might effectively widen its user base to encompass a broader spectrum of people while also increasing knowledge and comprehension of its universal formulations. After reviewing the data, we …

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Final Capstone Presentations, Spring 2023

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

Find the embedded videos here for our final capstone project presentations from last Spring. The first presentation starts at 10 minutes in and below is the order indicating when each presentation begins. Presentation order: Decarbonizing CCNY (at 10 minutes) Supporting Disaster Assessment and Infrastructure Recovery in Ukraine (at 53 minutes) Impact of Construction Materials on the Success of Resiliency Plans (at 1 hour and 41 minutes)

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