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...
by Marshall Brown | May 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Here is the latest news from The National Parks Service on the breach. It substantiates what people at Save the Great South Bay and what marine scientists have been saying, based on the data, and on a thorough knowledge of barrier beach dynamics. Here are the key...
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...
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...
by Artie Kopelman | Apr 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Cupsogue Beach County Park – CRESLI seal research trip and walk on 4/20/13: About 35 harbor seals at 7:50 AM (30 hauled-out; 5 in water) during research observation. The rain ended at 8, and I returned at 9:15 with the seal walk group, there were 42 harbor seals...
