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...
It has become the reflexive habit of news organizations to frame every news item as a conflict, a controversy. Without that, there is no story. You could be in a lecture hall for two and a half hours, listen to a panel, then have public statements from a crowd of...
Michael Busch of Bellport takes News12 out to The Old Inlet/Breach to show them how much healthier that part of the bay has become since Sandy created it six months ago — fluke, sea turtles, seal, osprey, clear waters — and how the bay continues to be...
Please “Like” SCERP on Facebook if you want healthy bays! Why is SCERP’s (and Professor Christopher Gobler’s) research so important? Because they are investigating the causes of algal blooms all around Long Island and the world. Over the...
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...
