People often ask how is the Great South Bay doing? Til now, it’s been a rhetorical question for the vast majority of us. One of our organization’s 2020 goals was to connect with the scientists who collect data in the Great South Bay. Each piece of data is...
Today we welcomed Prof. (emeritus) Roger Flood of Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) to discuss his work on side-scan sonar and multi-beam bottom mapping in the Great South Bay. Prof. Flood provided historical context of bay bottom...
Let’s be clear, clean water is on the ballot this year! Our colleagues over at the Pine Barrens Society laid it out well in their recent email: “This upcoming election is important for a lot of reasons. When you receive your ballot, you’ll choose your...
Heads up Great South Bay diggers. NYS Department of Environmental Conservation has just announced the emergency expansion of closed/uncertified waters in the Great South Bay due to poor water quality in certain areas. In total, another 600 acres of Bay bottom have...
On Saturday, October 17th, as part of the 35th Annual International Coastal Clean Up movement, Save the Great South Bay (STGSB) and Keep Islip Clean (KIC), two local environmental groups, teamed up with community members, including many Bay Shore High school...
Educating the next generation of local stewards on the health of the Bay is critical to protecting and preserving it for the future. That’s starts with passionate teachers showing students (in person, hands in the water, feet in the dirt) what lives in our...