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 Marshall Brown | Jun 10, 2013 | Cleaner Water
It was a winding rough and eventually wet week on the Great South Bay, and the surf was up.   Above is a telephoto shot of the surf at The New Inlet from a dock on Bellport Bay.  Lots of blue fish being caught off the dock and in Bellport.  Ospreys spotted on the...
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 | Jun 3, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Via Andrew Kozak, a graduating senior at Stony Brook University. Â His senior project concerned the collapse of the clamming population in The Great South Bay, and with it a way of life. Â His project may be viewed at www.longislandclams.com....
by Marshall Brown | May 21, 2013 | Featured
Here’s an amazing shot of the breach as it was being formed during Hurricane Sandy, photographed by our own Michael Busch.   Those aren’t dunes behind the Pattersquash club house — those are...