Hendrix College, Little Rock Zoo creating summer camp for students focusing on air quality study
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Hendrix College is creating a summer camp for its students with an emphasis on LEAP.
LEAP stands for Leadership in Environmental Analysis for the People. The students will research different areas in Little Rock to map the conditions to determine where there might be some social injustice.
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The areas of study are air quality, heat islands, food deserts, and traffic density. They will monitor how they relate to certain socioeconomic and geographic factors in Little Rock.
The Little Rock Zoo was the first community partner who agreed to the study and Dr. Courtney Hatch, a professor at Hendrix said she is looking forward to many more partnerships for research in the future.
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The zoo has input monitors in their facility to conduct air quality checks over a period of several weeks and will calculate results.
The results of the study can be found online at Hendrix.edu.
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