Fwd: CWQT Week 19---results

[Rob Buchanan]

The weekly torrential downpour arrived last night, long after our samples had been taken. So some green and yellow for a change! Check out the results here; for a map of our testing sites, click here. 

One more week to go before our regular season ends on September 30. 

 

Soldiers in the war for clean water! (Paul Frangipane)

WATERWAYS NEWS:

'Bout time: steep increases in government-backed flood insurance on the way (NY Times)

Reimagining Staten Island's North Shore (Waterfront Alliance)  

That boy genius who figured out how to collect all the plastic in the ocean? Well, he may not have after all (Hakai Magazine) --

Stopping hurricanes with bubblers? (Science Focus)

WEEKEND ACTIVITIES: 

Beach Cleanup at Great Kills, Staten Island: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=89760F01-E451-4C76-30E3D11EDCB40EFF

WEEKLY SLIDE SHOW:

Gates of fire: Newtown Creek entrance at dawn.

Willis Elkins with a 6'4" blade of saltmarsh cordgrass grown on one of several floating wetlands in Newtown Creek.

(Very) high tide at Danny Lin's sampling spot, the Plus Pool site near Pier 35.

Gowanus Dredgers Gary Francis and Celeste LeCompte moving the 'stage' prior to a chamber music performance by Brooklyn' Unheard-of Ensemble.

Mini-menhaden bait ball in Paerdegat Basin, Jamaica Bay

A soloist off Red Hook right before yesterday's storm

Starkitect alert: Rem Koolhaus' "ziggarut and its inverse" in Greenpoint. 

Artist-activist and Flushing native Cody Hermann getting interviewed on the history of her neighborhood.

Goat Island skiff on Jamaica Bay

Division Avenue CSO and floatables boom, South Williamsburg

Species ID quiz: by now everybody knows what this is, right? 

Harbor Geography quiz: entering what waterway?

Last week's quiz answers:

Species ID: Sporobolus alterniflorus, also known as spartina alterniflora or saltmarsh cordgrass, and Atriplex prostrata, also known as triangle orache, creeping saltbush, or fat hen. 

 

Harbor Geography: dripping cliffs at the northern tip of Manhattan island, opposite Marble Hill and just west of the Broadway Bridge 

The Citizens Water Quality Testing Program (CWQT) is a collaboration between the New York City Water Trail Association, the Billion Oyster Project, and Hudson River Park's River Project, with support from Two Trees Management. 

Partner programs and labs sharing their data (or publishing ours) include: Bronx River Alliance, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Interstate Environmental Commission, Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Hudson Riverkeeper, Monsignor Farrell High School, Newtown Creek Alliance, St. Francis College, Sarah Lawrence Center for the Urban River, SUNY Maritime Marine Environmental Science Department, Queens College Biology Department. 

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