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 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 | 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...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 25, 2013 | Education, Featured
Shoshanna McCullom, local author, is appealing to the public to share their pictures with her as she writes her latest book: REQUEST FOR IMAGES:Â Only 15 months after the release of Fire Island: Beach Resort and National Seashore I have been awarded a contract...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
Today marks the seventh day — and hopefully last — day of the heat wave.  It sure would be nice if we Long Islanders could head down to the shore and take a dip in the water to cool off.  That’s part of what brought people to Long Island in the...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 14, 2013 | Education, Featured, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Please “Like” SCERP on Facebook if you want healthy bays! Why is SCERP’s (and Professor Christopher Gobler’s) research so important?  Because they are investigating the causes of algal blooms all around Long Island and the world.   Over the...
