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AN IMMERSIVE ARTS/SCIENCE VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD!

Explore microscopic messengers of time inspired by micropaleontology and plankton research! What if there were creatures on earth that were relatively unknown, yet responsible for all the fresh water on the planet? Can ancient forms of plankton from over 10,000 years ago help us understand the future of freshwater ecology? Sound like a scifi movie? Actually, these are the realities of real world plankton!


DISCOVER AND LEARN ABOUT VARIOUS SPECIES THROUGHOUT TIME!


490 million years ago when the sea covered the lake with regional stromatolites from cyanobacterial mats


350 million years ago, “the age of fishes”, as revealed geologically in the Helderbergs


20,000 years ago when the Wisconsin ice sheet retreats, revealing hidden life including the Cohoes Mastodon, Ostracodes, Diatoms and Testate Amoebae


Native inhabitants, Impacts of settlement in 1850’s, salt in the 1970’s


Current times with the instruments and data of the Jefferson Project sensor web, the Fund for Lake George and others helping to keep the lake clean


GLIMPSE INTO A FUTURE CREATED BY YOUR ACTIONS

What choices in the way we live today will directly impact the future: what will the lake look like in the years 2060 and 2100?