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AMD watercolor: final collaborative graph
1media/PXL_20231208_200724006_thumb.jpg2024-01-08T15:01:07+00:00Selby Hearthb376ef4984698cd7e5faf6c8e8b2692e30809d8111The Energy Afterlives 360 harvested AMD from an abandoned coal mine in PA, then turned the sludge into watercolor paints. We used the paints to illustrate the percentage of PA streams contaminated with AMD.plain2024-01-08T15:01:07+00:00Selby Hearthb376ef4984698cd7e5faf6c8e8b2692e30809d81
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1media/AMD_background.jpgmedia/AMD_background.jpg2023-11-30T22:23:30+00:00ACID MINE DRAINAGE WATERCOLOR5Representing coal contamination in PA streams using paints made from the contaminants themselvesimage_header2024-01-08T15:05:32+00:00. The Fall 2023 Energy Afterlives 360 visited an abandoned coal mine in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Field. The mine is gushing water contaminated with "Acid Mine Drainage:" a slurry of acid and iron that results from coal mining practices.
The students harvested iron gunk from the contaminated stream — as well as local coal — brought them back to Bryn Mawr, and processed them into paint pigments. They then analyzed data about stream contamination in PA, and used the AMD and coal paints to represent the data as part of our final exhibition. .
