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 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,...
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...
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)Â have just released some very interesting data on nitrogen levels in the eastern Great South Bay before and after Sandy and the New Inlet:...
