STEM-In-Action Spring Scoop: Tyres
It's time for our final STEM-In-Action Spring Scoop! The U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) awards STEM-In-Action Grants of up to $5,000 to eCYBERMISSION teams that wish to further develop and implement their projects in their communities. Typically, only five teams receive a STEM-In-Action grant, but this year ten teams took home the award. Today, we're hearing from our final STEM-In-Action team, Team Tyres!
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We are working on another article to publish in our local newspaper. We are waiting until after our trip to Stone Lab to publish it so we can include the information that we learn there.
We recently booked a field trip to the Ohio State Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Put in Bay, Ohio in order to further our exploration into the effects of the tire wear on marine life in the Great Lakes. At the Aquatics Visitor’s Center on Stone Bass Island, we will learn about Lake Erie’s ecosystem, how to identify fish, and how to help further research in the protection of Lake Erie. We will be taking the science cruise where we will take samples of algae and plankton to measure the environmental conditions as well as collect fish that we will bring back to Stone Lab for dissection. During the dissection, we will learn the anatomy of the fish, examine the internal organs, and most important for us, examine the stomach contests looking for traces of tire particles. In the plankton lab, we will examine the water samples collected during the cruise. We are greatly looking forward to our trip to the Ohio State laboratory. I am most interested to see what the fish collect in their stomachs and to see first hand how pollution of the waterways in our towns affect the fish that we eat from Lake Erie.
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Our project looks at how the underinflation and overinflation of automobile tires contributes to the pollution of our waterways and marine life. Microparticles from tire ware get washed down the storm sewers and enter directly into the local streams that lead to Lake Erie.
We recently took another trip to the local tire shop to deliver tire pressure gauge kits. Along with a pamphlet explaining the effects under and over inflated tires have on pollution, the kits contain a tire pressure gauge and a tire tread depth gauge.
We are working on another article to publish in our local newspaper. We are waiting until after our trip to Stone Lab to publish it so we can include the information that we learn there.
We recently booked a field trip to the Ohio State Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Put in Bay, Ohio in order to further our exploration into the effects of the tire wear on marine life in the Great Lakes. At the Aquatics Visitor’s Center on Stone Bass Island, we will learn about Lake Erie’s ecosystem, how to identify fish, and how to help further research in the protection of Lake Erie. We will be taking the science cruise where we will take samples of algae and plankton to measure the environmental conditions as well as collect fish that we will bring back to Stone Lab for dissection. During the dissection, we will learn the anatomy of the fish, examine the internal organs, and most important for us, examine the stomach contests looking for traces of tire particles. In the plankton lab, we will examine the water samples collected during the cruise. We are greatly looking forward to our trip to the Ohio State laboratory. I am most interested to see what the fish collect in their stomachs and to see first hand how pollution of the waterways in our towns affect the fish that we eat from Lake Erie.
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Living near the Great Lakes makes fostering good environmental stewardship on a community level all the more important. We're so proud of the work Team Tyres is doing tackling improper tire maintenance to improve the health of their environment.
Faith Benner
AEOP Senior Communications and Marketing Specialist
AEOP Senior Communications and Marketing Specialist
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