Reflection

In this film, I wanted to express my passion for nitrogen pollution, sewage, and runoff in a way that others could connect to. The past four months I have been learning at Coastal Studies for Girls, a marine science and leadership semester school in Freeport, Maine, where I have explored the power of excess nitrogen in a marine ecosystem through a research project. Something so invisible and ethereal can wreak so much havoc with microscopic organisms, phytoplankton, which would otherwise be essential to life. I intended to spark someone else’s imagination with the poems I wrote and recited and my dancing just like I had connected with these art forms myself. When I looked at the previous contest winners, I saw that an astounding amount were about plastic pollution. I already cared deeply about nutrient pollution and felt it was necessary to give it a voice, which is why I decided to focus on this issue.