Cresskill Environmental Commission

A big thank you to my team for another successful Shredding Day. And no rain.

A big thank you to our Junior environmentist for helping cleanup our town

Since we are expecting another wet Saturday. Only 6miles away

🥳 Saturday, October 14 (10am-4pm): Lamont Open House—our biggest, best science fun and discovery event of the year—takes place on our beautiful campus in Palisades, NY!

👉 Visit lamontrocks.com to learn more and RSVP today! Open House is free and open to the public, with a $5 suggested donation.

🚌 Free shuttle buses from Columbia University's Morningside campus and Crestron in Rockleigh, NJ.

🌱 DO AHEAD! Test your soil and paint for lead with Lamont geochemist Lex van Geen. Learn how to collect your samples: https://openhouse.ldeo.columbia.edu/content/soil-and-paint-sampling

🌎 Meet our scientists and go hands-on with a scavenger hunt, volcanoes, rock mechanics, oobleck, glacier goo, Gumby suits, space rocks, tree rings, sediment cores, seafloor maps (like Marie Tharp!), Hudson River science, seismic sounds, marine research aboard ships like R/V Marcus G. Langseth, and so much more!

🥾 Take a hike through the Lamont forest to learn how trees help us study ecology, climate change, and past land uses.

👂 Attend lectures and conversations with our world-renowned scientists.

💚 Thank you to our 2023 sponsors Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., Crestron, The 9W Market, Florentin Maurrasse, and South Orangetown Ambulance Corps for their generous support!

📷: Tree-ring scientist Mukund Palat Rao at the Tree Ring Lab ready to answer visitor questions at Lamont Open House in 2019. Credit: Elisabeth Sydor

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