Creating the Website „Stop the Zebra-Mussels“
( TLG-Plan Project, 2021 )
During my Sophomore Year, I worked on an environmental project as my TGPLAN project (Think Globally, Problem-solve Locally, Act Neighborly)
The background was the protection of our Texan lakes and rivers from invasive species. In my project, I wanted to inform people and especially boat owners, about the invasive Zebra Mussels, which live since a few years in lakes, ponds, and rivers all over Texas and all over the world.
For this, I researched marina operators. I interviewed boat owners, residents at lakes, and the water authority about the current spread of Zebra mussels in our waters and about measures already taken to push back and control possibilities to reduce further spreads.
To communicate the issue and ways to help and protect, I created a website with information about the Mussels. The website lists facts about the history, explains the Global issue and the local problems, how to take action and care about boats and the water, and lists organizations that launched major public awareness campaigns about preventing invasive zebra mussels from infesting new water bodies.
In addition, I created a flyer for boat owners on how and where they can clean their boats before moving to another lake.
The link to this website (in English and German) is
https://stopthezebramussels.com
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Trash Photo Project
In my Internship in my Senior Year, my company gave me a project on how I can use photography as a medium to make people aware of trash and environmental pollution.
Since photos are a perfect medium to communicate ideals and issues, I decided to plan a project with photos of any kind of trash in the landscape and to show these images in an online gallery or, if possible, as prints in a gallery. A second idea was creating a dress out of bags from supermarkets like HEB and Walmart since all these plastic bags are unnecessary pollution. Then I dressed up to take pictures in a labyrinth out of stones and trash objects with a stone in the middle that represents the earth and near some other „lost objects“ in the desert.
The project is still ongoing, and I plan to do some additional activities like that in the second semester of my internship.
The photos shall be shown on Instagram, Facebook, and if possible, some posters or stickers that can be posted in various places to make people aware of the trash problem.
Here are some photos from this project:
