by Marshall Brown | Jun 3, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Via Andrew Kozak, a graduating senior at Stony Brook University. Â His senior project concerned the collapse of the clamming population in The Great South Bay, and with it a way of life. Â His project may be viewed at www.longislandclams.com....
by Marshall Brown | Jun 3, 2013 | Cleaner Water
1794 Map of Eastern Great South Bay 1820 Map of the Great South Bay Mosaic of The New Inlet – 5-31-13 Courtesy Prof Charles Flagg and The Great South Bay Project Team At SoMAS 5-31-13 Courtesy Prof Charles Flagg and The Great South Bay Project Team At SoMAS New...
by Marshall Brown | May 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Peter Kohler, Executive Vice President for Editorial Services at Cablevision, got it absolutely right in his most recent editorial as to what should be done about The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, which was crippled by Hurricane Sandy. via YouTube Until we rebuild...
by Marshall Brown | May 28, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
The conclusions from SCERP (The Stonybrook Southampton Estuarine Research Program) are clear.  We are reaping the harvest of having no sewer system in Suffolk, and 100,000+ septic tanks leeching nitrogen into the groundwater for the past 40 years.   All indicator...
by Marshall Brown | May 22, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Last month, Jim Tripp of the The Environmental Defense Fund drafted a letter addressed to The Department of Interior, The National Parks Service, The Fire Island National Seashore, The Army Corps of Engineers, and The New York State Department of Environmental...
by Marshall Brown | May 21, 2013 | Featured
Here’s an amazing shot of the breach as it was being formed during Hurricane Sandy, photographed by our own Michael Busch.   Those aren’t dunes behind the Pattersquash club house — those are...
by Marshall Brown | May 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Here is the latest news from The National Parks Service on the breach. It substantiates what people at Save the Great South Bay and what marine scientists have been saying, based on the data, and on a thorough knowledge of barrier beach dynamics. Here are the key...
by Marshall Brown | May 16, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Here’s a nice piece on Prof. Christopher Gobler of Stonybrook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS)  by Kyle Rabin of Ecocentric.org.  You want to know about toxic algal blooms, what they are doing to the marine plants and animals in our...
by Marshall Brown | May 14, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
“Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean — thus driving even more innovation in “oyster-tecture.” Orff...
by Marshall Brown | May 11, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
The seal carcass found and photographed last Saturday on the beach a mile west of Smith Point was NOT as it turned out killed by a shark, and certainly not a Great White.  While Great Whites are feeding on seals off Cape Cod, we’ve yet to see any evidence that...
by Marshall Brown | May 10, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay’s John Hall pulled in three good sized bass in his kayak.   Here’s a shot of one:
by Marshall Brown | May 7, 2013 | Featured, Fixing Habitats
Now is the time to take down all the ancient dams along our South Shore estuaries.  The alewife, herring, sturgeon and eel, and all the fish that breed in fresh water and live in our oceans have to have the means to swim up river to spawn.  For centuries, we have...
