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DCISE Annual Report 2017-2018 5 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Pace Environmental Systems CoLab This year saw the opening of the Pace Environmental Systems CoLab, a training and research collaborative founded by DCISE in partnership with the Design Factory of the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Technology, and the Entrepreneurship Lab of the Lubin School of Business. The CoLab's primary mission is to educate and train students, pre- professionals and professionals in the design, deployment, and operation of real-time monitoring and sensor technologies, the management and use of real-time streaming data, and the application of real-time monitoring to policy and science. The CoLab utilizes Choate Pond as a test bed, and its first deployment can be viewed at the pond's southern end until November 2018. Affectionately named Ada, for Ada Lovelace, a 19th century mathematician, it wirelessly transmits water quality data every fifteen minutes to a central computer at Seidenberg. The CoLab's anticipated spring 2019 deployments include Kemey's Cove in Ossining, NY, and a location in the Pocantico River watershed. The CoLab is co-directed by DCISE Senior Fellow John Cronin and Assistant Dean of Academic Innovation at Seidenberg Andreea Cotoranu. The faculty team also includes Richard Kline, PhD, and Matthew Ganis, PhD, of Seidenberg, and Bruce Bacchenheimer, PhD, of Lubin. The CoLab summer interns were Andrew Welch '18, MA in Environmental Policy candidate at Dyson College, and Seidenberg's William Bender '19 and Kyle Hanson '21. Mock Environmental Legislative Hearing Every year, undergraduate teams, comprising students from various majors, research and prepare testimony on an emerging environmental issue. This year, the Sixth Annual Mock Legislative Hearing addressed the protection and development of New York State's water resources. Six teams delivered testimony on all aspects of water protection and use, including ecosystem management, public health, economic growth, supply management, technological solutions, and public access and recreation. The winning team proposed legislation phasing out the sale of invasive pet species and providing education about the negative impacts associated with the release of invasive pets into New York State's ecosystem. The team consisted of students from ENV 130: The Naturalists and were mentored by their professor, Angelo Spillo, with team member Noah Brennan '20, Environmental Studies, taking home the award for best presenter. The delivery and first floatation of a platform and sensor in Choate Pond on Pace's Pleasantville campus by the Environmental Systems Co-Lab team. Dyson College intern Andrew Welch '18, MA in Environmental Policy, is pictured in the back of the canoe. Photo by Michelle Land.

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