{"id":5804,"date":"2024-04-08T17:33:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=5804"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:18:21","slug":"jefferson-crwa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/jefferson-crwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Historic and Current Water Quality of the Charles River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-4526 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/lydia-jefferson\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2022\/09\/2024_Lydia-Jefferson-update-e1727728134843-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lydia Jefferson headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2022\/09\/2024_Lydia-Jefferson-update-e1727728134843-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2022\/09\/2024_Lydia-Jefferson-update-e1727728134843-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Lydia Jefferson<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Lab Relocation Specialist at Renovo Solutions<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Project Partner: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crwa.org\/\">Charles River Watershed Association<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5809\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/urban\/files\/2024\/04\/Lydia-Jefferson-Photo-1_CRWA-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2024\/04\/Lydia-Jefferson-Photo-1_CRWA-1.png\" alt=\"Lydia collecting a concentrated water sample with a plankton tow net.\" width=\"363\" height=\"483\" class=\"wp-image-5809\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia collecting a concentrated water sample with a plankton tow net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span><strong>Project Summary: <\/strong>The Charles River provides important ecosystem and recreation services to humans and animals alike, so ensuring the river is clean supports the Boston community. Further, tracking the water quality of the river and sharing this information will better inform people in the Boston community about the watershed \u201cin their backyard.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lydia partnered with the Charles River Watershed Association to make water quality data for the Charles River more accessible to everyone, including researchers, governmental officials, and students, who want to learn more about the river. They documented all the different sources of water quality data for the Charles River, as all the data that are currently available is provided by a plethora of organizations with some requiring a coding background to understand, and created a final report. They also implemented a more robust procedure for the CWRA\u2019s cyanobacteria bloom tracking program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>This final report will be the stepping stone for the CRWA to further aggregate the data and create a \u201cCharles River Data Hub\u201d that will include all documented water quality data for the Charles River.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"\/urban\/files\/2024\/04\/Lydia-Jefferson-Photo-1_CRWA.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Project Deliverables: <\/strong>The final report was distributed internally to the watershed and data scientists of the CRWA. Also, check out<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@charlesriverwatershed\/video\/7255078184519994667?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7226445048200676910\"> the TikTok video<\/a> Lydia made showcasing the steps involved in participating in the CRWA\u2019s visual cyanobacteria monitoring program!<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5808\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/urban\/files\/2024\/04\/Lydia-Jefferson-Photo-2_CRWA-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2024\/04\/Lydia-Jefferson-Photo-2_CRWA-1.png\" alt=\"Lydia counting the number of units and cells per unit in the cyanobacteria samples they collected.\u00a0\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" class=\"wp-image-5808 size-full\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia counting the number of units and cells per unit in the cyanobacteria samples they collected.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: Charles River Watershed Association Project Summary: The Charles River provides important ecosystem and recreation services to humans and animals alike, so ensuring the river is clean supports the Boston community. Further, tracking the water quality of the river and sharing this information will better inform people in the Boston community about the watershed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18240,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5804\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}