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The Breach Report, 8-13-13: So What Are We To Call It?   The Breach, The Old Inlet, The New Inlet?

The Breach Report, 8-13-13: So What Are We To Call It? The Breach, The Old Inlet, The New Inlet?

by Marshall Brown | Aug 13, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

There is really no consensus on what to call the inlet created by Hurricane Sandy across from Bellport Bay and west of Smith Point.    Over at our Facebook Group, Save the Great South Bay, we have debated this and voted on this repeatedly. We have had various marine...

Reviving New York’s Rivers — With Oysters!

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...
Coastalresilience.org — Modeling Future Storm Floods And Offering Strategies To Mitigate Future Flooding

Coastalresilience.org — Modeling Future Storm Floods And Offering Strategies To Mitigate Future Flooding

by Marshall Brown | May 1, 2013 | Fixing Habitats

Coastalresilience.org is dedicated to preparing us for a future with more flooding. Seas are rising, storms are intensifying. Visit their site, read what they have to say about how we should prepare for this future — using natural defenses like marsh, eelgrass,...

Filtering Futures: A Story of Long Island and Shellfish — A Film By Gareth Burghes

by Marshall Brown | Apr 24, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish

Gareth Burghes is a former student in marine biology at Stony Brook University turned film maker. Through Lagomorph Films, the production company he founded, Gareth is winning spots at various film festivals with his “Filtering Futures: A Story of Long Island...
I’m not a fan of Earth Day

I’m not a fan of Earth Day

by Artie Kopelman | Apr 23, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

I admit it; I am not a big fan of Earth Day.  This aversion could stem from what happened to me on one of the first Earth Day celebrations in NYC in Central Park, when a large dog mistook my back as a tree stump and I was urinated upon; but, it doesn’t.  My...
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