I am a Senior Research Scientist for the Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute and this is one of several pieces made for a project called Wool and Water.

Wool and Water is a data art project that blends fiber art with scientific data to create visual representations of changing water quality conditions in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain Basin. We began in 2022 in association with the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. Support from the Lake Champlain Basin Program, the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership and others has enabled us to build an enduring project and to use fiber art to showcase the legacy of protecting clean water in the Lake Champlain Basin and beyond. Pieces here in Ravelry are my own but the project website has additional works made by many others as a part of this collaborative effort.

This crocheted piece illustrates the depth profile – bathymetry – of Mirror Lake in Lake Placid. Bathymetry is the underwater analog of topography and is commonly mapped similarly with contour lines that illustrate depth at different regions of the lake bottom. Darker colors indicate deeper regions of the lake, in both the graphic and the crocheted piece. This was made with simple crochet circles in varying colors pieced together to align with the approximate bathymetry pattern of the lake. Data: Ausable Freshwater Center https://www.ausableriver.org/watershed/lakes/mirror-lake/...