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Show L _ _ J!L?*.__ .i^_ :__•... _ ^_ .-_^ __!. _ „ - ^ THE PARK RECORD www.park record.com SAT/SUN/MONATUES, FEBRUARY 26 - MARCH 1 , 2005 B-9 Education. EDUCATION EDITOR: Jared Whltley 649-9014 ext!18 educatlonOparkrecord.com Naftzs swimming in scientific accolades Introduction to massage class Park City Recreation is holding an introduction to massage class, held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 4 at the Park City Racquet Club. A certified massage therapist will take students through the bastes of this relaxing craft. Cost is $15 per person, or $25 per couple and includes a bottle of massage oil. Register online at parkcityrecreation.org or at the Park City Racquet Club, 615-5401. Deadline is Wednesday. March 2. Cheerleader tryouts Park City High School is hosting cheerleading tryouts on March 9 to 16 in the school gymnasium. A pre-tryout information meeting will be held in the school ftshbowl on Wednesday, March 2 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. A mandatory parent/student meeting is scheduled for Thursday March 3 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the lecture hall (room 149). Soups and stews Due to popular demand. Park City Community Education is holding a repeat cooking course -- Hearty Soups and Stews -- on March 2 and 9 at Park City High School. Steve and Ginny Butler of Kumbayah Kitchens teach. Register online at www.pcschoofs.us (click on 'Community" then 1 Community Education'") or stop by the district office at 2700 Kearns Boulevard. Phone contact is Julia Jones at 615-0215. Father and son present water research at ASLO international conference By JARED WHITLEY Of the Record stuff While sonic say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, in I he Naftz family. WiHer doesn't iriekle far from the slrcam. Dong Naflz, a Park City High School senior, is a budding scientist who wants to keep water free of arsenic. His 1";ether David is a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who wanls to keep waler free of mercury. Tile two participated in this week's national American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (or ASLO) conference. ASLO is a professional organization for researchers and educators in aquatic science. The Nnft/.s presented posters on their research at the Salt Palace Wednesday evening. Doug is researching how to remove poisonous arsenic from water supplies cheaply. particularly for use in Bangladesh, a country wracked with arsenic-related illnesses. He learned about this problem through the course of researching Park Cily's own success in reducing arsenic levels in the waler. To extract arsenic from water inexpensively, Naftz developed a filtralion system using an old two-liter pop bollle and iron granules. Arsenic ions bond to terribly small "nano cuts" in the iron. and clean water comes out the other side. The filter costs about $20. and could provide a family of four with drinkable water for about six years. While Nafl/.'s science is sound, the challenge is distribution. At one of the science fairs he attended, he met an environmental consultant for the World Bank. He hopes to capitalize on that contact to distribute his cheap Personal Arsenic Removal (PAR) system to the Bangladeshis. During the ASLO conference, the Naftzs and other students also traveled to the Great Salt Lake Wednesday afternoon, where David discussed his research on mercury content in the lake. Dovetailing with this conference, his research was featured this week in USA Today and The Salt Lake Tribune. Mercury from industries has seeped into the Great Salt Lake, and combines SCOTT SINE.'PARKRECORD Left: David Naftz explains his research on mercury in the Great Sale Lake to students with the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography on Wednesday. Right: Doug Naftz shows his research on arsenic later that day. to form methylmercury. an even more school science fairs, and won a fair share international fair in Phoenix, Ariz., in poisonous brand of the element. Brine of awards. In March, he'll present his May. shrimp consume the methyl mercury, arsenic-removal research at the While some seniors see their last year which then gels passed up into birds that University of Utah Junior Science and as a lime to take it easy before graduateat the shrimp. ing into the real world. Doug has "Since the (ircat Salt Lake does- been busy preparing his research for n't have warm, fuzzy animals there, • the fairs. people don't think it's important," feeling the pressure." he Since the Great Salt Lake doesn't said."I'm Doug said. There's certainly plenty at While humans aren't going to eat have warm, fuzzy animals there, peo- stake. Intel's grand prize is a brine shrimp from the lake, the tiny $100,000 college scholarship. creatures arc a $100 million per year ple don't think it's important." Doug says he's probably going industry for the stale, David said, as to al tend Western Washington brine shrimp cysts (or eggs) are sold University, on the state's Pacific as food for prawns, which people - Doug Naftz coast, where there's a college devotthen eat. Those shrimp which are ed entirely to environmental sciOn mercury in the lake removed from the lake as cysts, ^ ^ enee. His main career goaI is to though, haven't been significantly make a difference in the world, so affected by the mercury. David said. Humanities Symposium and the he's considering research or environSouthern Utah University science fair. If mental law. 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