Off the coast of Beach Lane in Wainscott – South Fork Wind Farm project is underway to bring the cable to shore. Photo Susan McGraw-Keber Cable pull-in activities are anticipated to begin Tuesday, March 7 and continue through Friday, March 10. Please note that once started this work must be continuous until completion and will be performed pursuant to Article VII Certificate Condition 75. PHOTO: The large green vessel which is positioned behind the lift boat is the Livingstone, which is the cable-laying vessel. The lift boat in the foreground is the RAM XV, which facilitates the preparation works for
Photo courtesy of the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers is the first all-female multi-generational Indigenous-owned and operated kelp farm on the East Coast. The Nature Conservancy recently awarded the kelp farm $75,000 to assist in the company’s efforts to capture carbon and reduce nitrogen pollution that has plagued Shinnecock Bay due to aging septic systems and fertilizer run-off. Patch article : Lisa Finn
SoMAS Southampton Lecture Series presents: Join In-Person in the Duke Lecture Hall on the Southampton Campus .google-maps { position: relative; padding-bottom: 75%; // This is the aspect ratio height: 0; overflow: hidden; } .google-maps iframe { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; } On Long Island, our sole-source aquifer is our drinking water supply and is the primary source of freshwater, nitrogen, and other contaminants to coastal ecosystems. Recent trends in the quality of both groundwater and surface waters on Long Island have been worrisome. Emerging contaminants such as PFAS and 1,4-dioxane have contaminated
Oyster farmer Tim Henry (right) (Bay Point Oyster Company) and his employee Ken Smaldone haul an oyster cage onto their pontoon boat at their farm in Little Bay in Durham, New Hampshire. Photo Jerry & Marcy Monkman EcoPhotography There’s a new initiative that could help growers, the ecosystem, and coastal communities—it’s called “SOAR”. During 2020, business has been hard on shellfish farmers, with sales to restaurants way down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That has left many farmers holding oysters even as they grew beyond the ideal size for the half-shell market, and has created a major dilemma over what
A Billion Oyster Project boat in New York Harbor steered by staffer Marc Melendez prepares to plant some 5,000 oysters that will help restore the harbor’s ecosystem. Rebecca Resner (left), hatchery manager, and Danielle Bissett, director of restoration, will unload the oversized bivalves provided by Lucky 13 Oysters, a Long Island aquaculture farm and Supporting Oyster Aquaculture and Restoration beneficiary.Lexey Swall for The Pew Charitable Trusts When the COVID-19 outbreak shuttered restaurants throughout the country, commercial oyster growers saw their sales plummet. At the same time, the pandemic forced many organizations that were restoring native oyster reefs to suspend their
East Hampton’s Junior Lifeguard and Nipper Guard training and evaluation take place at the Y.M.C.A.’s RECenter’s pool. Photo by Carissa Katz of the EH Star East Hampton Town’s training for future lifeguards and for summertime participants in its Junior Lifeguard ocean readiness program will begin on March 5th in the pool at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter. The program is offered in two sessions: from 1 to 1:45 or from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. There is no cost, but trainees must sign up in advance on the Town’s website. Article: EH Star
Stony Brook University – School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences On Wednesday, March 1st at 7:00 PM, Brittney Scannell, Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University in the Peterson Community Ecology lab will present her lecture“One fish, two fish, blackfish and bluefish: A Tour of NY’s Artificial Reefs”.Sunken ships, railroad cars, armored tanks, and pieces of the Tapan Zee bridge. What do all these things have in common? They’ve all been used to build New York’s Artificial Reefs!
Photo courtesy of Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt
East Hampton Town Trustee Deputy Clerk Jim Grimes of Montauk The Montauk Friends of Erin Parade will take place on Sunday, March 26th! Leading the parade as the 61st Grand Marshal will be our own Deputy Clerk of the Trustees, Jim Grimes! “The @montaukfriendsoferin are thrilled to announce that Jim Grimes has agreed to do us the honor of leading this year’s Montauk St. Patrick’s Day parade as our 61st Grand Marshal. Jim is a lifelong Montauk native, East Hampton Town Trustee, long-time member of the Montauk Fire Department, and a legacy Grand Marshal, as his father Vinnie Grimes held
Join East Hampton Town Trustee and Chair of the Education Committee of the Amagansett Station, David Cataletto, for the first event of the season on Friday, March 31st, 2023 at 7PM. “Harpooning a Whale” oil painting by Anton Otto Fischer in the New Bedford Whaling Museum Charles H. Lagerbom Long before Sag Harbor whaling ships crisscrossed the globe in search of “black gold” there was the earlier heyday of shore whaling. This is the history of that forgotten era when whales were spotted from our beaches, then hunted in small boats. Shore whaling was East Hampton’s first major industry that
Bay Scallops Photo Jon Diat – East Hampton Star Since 2019, consecutive summer mass die-offs of bay scallops in the Peconic Estuary on Long Island, New York, have led to the collapse of the bay scallop fishery in New York and the declaration of a federal fishery disaster, with landings down more than 99 percent. This study led by Stony Brook School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) graduate, Stephen Tomasetti, currently visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Hamilton College, and Stony Brook University Endowed Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation Christopher Gobler and a collaborative team of researchers reveals that
Submitted by Molly Graffam, PhD and Ron Paulsen, PG of Coastline Evaluation Corp. / Cornell Cooperative Extension / Marine Program December 22, 2022 Accabonac Harbor Springs Photo Susan McGraw-Keber The report is focused on Northwest Accabonac Harbor – Phase 1. Phase 1 Report
Statement from Orsted Regarding Mooring System in Use
“As part of the fish monitoring study outlined in the SFW Fisheries Study Work Plan, the Stony Brook University team is conducting a regular visit to the sensor array off Wainscott today to collect data from sensors, replace batteries, and deploy new retrievable moorings alongside the previous moorings. As the Stony Brook team is deploying new moorings alongside the existing moorings there’s no change to the mariners briefing, our standard method for updating mariners on the presence of equipment in navigational waters. Members of the fisheries outreach team, in collaboration with the research team, have worked with the fishing community to select an alternative mooring, one that is smaller, lightweight and retrievable, and is more compatible with commercial fishing in response to the feedback we’ve received from the community on original deployment of cement moorings.”
Images of the mooring system and a diagram are shown below.
