Atrazine is an applicant to farming. It occurs at specific points of the year and has dramatic effects upon specific species. (click on all images on this page for lightbox view)
Pollution ecologies is an ongoing research project to document and describe flows of pollutants, describe their processes, capacities to remediate and map locations.
Pollutants are ecosystems in the anthropocene; numerous case studies make it easy to argue them as determinants of species selection and genetic mutation throughout trophic levels. The pollution ecologies research links to water, as it is the universal solvent that moves through all life.
In each pollutant, we not physical properties, reasons for use, point of entropy, effects upon living systems and people, life cycle as a pollutant, and modes of remediation (mechanical and biological).
This list of pollutants become an atlas and inventory to help designers and citizens become aware of the increasing presence of pollutants and means to sequester them.
Works in this portfolio feature Joel Carrasco (atrazine), Troy Hansen (selenium) and Valerie Ahyong (trichloroethylene).
TCE is an industrial pollutant that can have geographically large impacts upon groundwater supplies.
Selenium is an interesting case - in some ways 'naturally' occurring. When western soils are disturbed, selenium gets free and can hyperaccumulate.