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SCERP Cities Brown Tides in Moriches, Quantuck and Shinnecock, but None in The Great South Bay, Perhaps Because of The New Inlet

SCERP Cities Brown Tides in Moriches, Quantuck and Shinnecock, but None in The Great South Bay, Perhaps Because of The New Inlet

by | Jun 7, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Brown tide press release Southampton, NY, June 7th 2013 – A brown tide has emerged within some, but not all, of Long Island’s south shore estuaries. Monitoring by The Gobler Laboratory of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences has revealed...

Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Throughout LI This May — Bad and Worse To Come?

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...

Professor Christopher Gobler of Stonybrook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences: A Profile

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...
The New Inlet is Cleaning The Eastern Great South Bay and Bellport Bay

The New Inlet is Cleaning The Eastern Great South Bay and Bellport Bay

by Marshall Brown | Apr 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats

Prof. Christopher Gobler and his team at SCERP (Stony Brook Southampton Coastal Estuary Research Program)  have just released some very interesting data on nitrogen levels in the eastern Great South Bay before and after Sandy and the New Inlet:...
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