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...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 11, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
SCERP — The Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program — has posted this dramatic picture of how the massive brown tide bloom in The Great South Bay is not spreading to the south eastern part of the bay, thanks to The New Inlet: Note how this...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
With all the heavy rains in June, a lot of our ground water, heavily polluted by septic tanks and sewage, has washed into The Great South Bay, sparking the brown tide. The New Inlet is thus far keeping the brown tide out of the Eastern Great South Bay and Moriches...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water
….which begs the question, ‘shouldnt we be opening up breaches in Shinnecock and Moriches Bays and other places so that they could be freed of brown tides as well, and so that the fish can come back?  We’d still need to get our acts together...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
At least some of you will not be able to read this, not being registered at Newsday — the gist is, however, that we are once again facing large scale algal blooms this year, with worse perhaps to come.   Interestingly though, while so many bays are suffering,...