Looking for oysters at Oyster Island, just south of the Statue of Liberty. The island only emerges a few days a year, at very low tides--but today was one of them!
WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP:
Stay out of the water if you just got a tattoo (NY Post)
Sinkhole threatens public access (Patch.com)
Board shakeup at Hudson River Park Trust (Village Sun)
New Jersey governor signs landmark environmental justice law (Reuters)
Ten feet of sea level rise coming soon? (Washington Post)
Governors Island as Climate Research Center? (New York Times)
UPCOMING WATERWAYS EVENT:
Annual Billion Oyster Party, September 24--yes it's virtual, but we'll ship you a box of oysters (not from NY Harbor!) to enjoy with the show
WEEKLY SLIDE SHOW:
Community scientist of the week: Theo Singh helps load samples into the incubator.
Dumbo sample, yo! (Finola)
Heather and Susan from the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, sampling at the Rutgers Boathouse dock in New Brunswick (Heather Fenyk).
Rainbow sheen (which, not coincidentally, is the name of Newtown Creek Alliance's sampling boat) near the Kosciuszko Bridge in Newtown Creek (Willis Elkins)
Artist Jenny Polak and assistant staking out "Offshore," a conceptual art piece coming soon to Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria.
Lilly assisting with the sampling at Bushwick Inlet Park beach (Jie)
Scoping out the 'seawall corridor' under the Domino Park esplanade, where 3.5 million juvenile oysters will be placed next year (Finola)
Spoonful o' toadfish (Finola)
Oyster retrieved from the bottom of Wallabout Channel, oil-coated but still alive (Finola)
Creature quiz: dead in the water at the Navy Yard--what is it and why might he/she have died?
Geography quiz: name and location of this NYC park?
Cormorants guarding the floatables boom on Maspeth Creek, aka the Newtown Creek Turning Basin (Willis Elkins)
QUIZ ANSWERS FROM LAST WEEK:
Creature: Juvenile kingfish
Place: South Fifth St., Williamsburg
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