by Marshall Brown | Sep 18, 2013 | Featured
Post by SCERP Stony Brook Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program.
by Marshall Brown | Sep 14, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Featured, Fixing Habitats
What’s in the Water has been produced by News12 in response to the crisis Long Island and its waters now face. Brown tide, red tide, rust tide, blue green algae, constant beach closings and shellfish bed closings in bays throughout Long Island, beginning in 1985...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured
via Facebook SCERP — The Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Project — has just come out with their latest report. Swimmers Rejoice! Water clarity is now such that we can see deeper than 4 feet in the Eastern Bay, which means it is legal and...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 10, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
September 10th marks the launch of The Long Island Clean Water Partnership A consortium of 125 organizations (and growing), the partnership is dedicated to addressing the biggest threat facing Long Island and its future — contaminated ground water that is both...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water
Scott Gerber reports from his 1946 Piper Cub: Somewhere down there — a school of fish. Meanwhile on the ground below, celebrity hound Otis travels with his master Surf Fireisland to The Old Inlet / Breach...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Join The Cause and Build a Future For Long Island! Start using lawn and agricultural fertilizers that are eco-friendly, that don’t pollute our groundwater, drinking water and bays with excess nitrogen and phosphorus. The excess nitrogen has been...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 5, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured
Rust Tide ” Long Island ” Cablevision EditorialsBecause of this nitrogen threat, the Peconic Baykeeper intends to sue the state DEC, saying it is failing to protect impaired estuaries from wastewater pollution. Meanwhile, a coalition of environmental...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 5, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Post by Save The Great South Bay.
by Marshall Brown | Aug 13, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
There is really no consensus on what to call the inlet created by Hurricane Sandy across from Bellport Bay and west of Smith Point. Over at our Facebook Group, Save the Great South Bay, we have debated this and voted on this repeatedly. We have had various marine...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
It has become the reflexive habit of news organizations to frame every news item as a conflict, a controversy. Without that, there is no story. You could be in a lecture hall for two and a half hours, listen to a panel, then have public statements from a crowd of...
