Words On Water #151: Zoe Gotthold on Winning the U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize

July 20, 2020

Zoe Gotthold is a recent graduate of Richland High School in Richland, Washington and the 2020 winner of the U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize. In this episode Zoe discusses her winning project, which involved developing prototypes of devices that promote oil flocculation at the surface and increase the efficacy of traditional oil spill remediation techniques. She talks about how much she enjoyed the experience of the SJWP competition and valued the feedback from judges. Zoe says she will be attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall.

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Words On Water #112: Sonja Michaluk on Winning the U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize

October 23, 2019

Sonja Michaluk is a high school student and the winner of the 2019 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize, the nation’s most prestigious youth competition for water-related research. In this episode Sonja discusses how she explored the use of DNA barcoding to measure the health of waterways with larval Chironomidae, the most widespread macroinvertebrate family. She talks about her interest in the intersection of science and public policy and making data the language of debate. Sonja tells how her research caused a town board to change the planned path of a roadway to avoid a healthy creek.

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