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The East River & Carl Schurz Park

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Additional Resources

Videos & Films

 

‘Billion Oyster Project @ Submerge 2021’

Billion Oyster Project. 2021. 6:50.

https://youtu.be/0iPmgs-fn14

 

‘Dolphins in the East River’.

ABC News. 3/24/21

https://abc7ny.com/dolphin-east-river-brooklyn-greenpoint/10443879/

 

‘Fighting Climate Change with 1 Billion Oysters’

Munchies. 2021? 7:42

https://youtu.be/t9oUGWuKRwg

 

‘How Billion Oyster Project Will Save New York's Waterways | One Small Step’

Now This Earth. 2022? 7:22

https://youtu.be/3b9qlDi9c7k

 

‘How One Group Is Restoring Thousands of Oysters to New York Harbor.’

Insider Tech. 2020? 3:14

https://youtu.be/Vau_CD8NmUY

 

‘The Lost and Future Wildlife of New York City’s East River’ with Ethan Freedman

Scienceline.  4/8/21. 7:47.

https://scienceline.org/2021/04/the-lost-and-future-wildlife-of-new-york-citys-east-river/

Organizations & Websites

 

Billion Oyster Project

https://www.billionoysterproject.org

 

Riverkeeper.  Restore and Protect New York’s Waterways.

https://www.riverkeeper.org/campaigns/restore-nyc-waterways/
 

 

Educational Resources

New York Harbor Estuary Species Identification Guide. 

Billion Oyster Project and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation/Hudson River Estuary Program.  2021

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c5604249b8fe80245a0d052/t/60c3cc5c691cd51fbd4d8780/1623444583203/Species+ID+Guide_June+2021.pdf

 

‘Oyster Anatomy’.

Billion Oyster Project. 

Video. 2020. 5:31

https://youtu.be/gQ4kSU2vVBc

 

Seining for Unusual Visitors in the East River. 

Brooklyn Bridge Park.

10/16/18

https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/plan-your-visit/education/seining-for-unusual-visitors-in-the-east-river/

Articles & Reports

New York City’s Environmental Progress of the East River Amid Dolphin Siting.  

Logan, Jonathan. 

The Pace Press.  4/15/21 

https://thepacepress.org/6714/news/new-york-citys-environmental-progress-of-the-east-river-amid-dolphin-siting/

 

Watching for the Buffleheads.

Nimura, Janice P.

The Morning News. 2/23/11

https://themorningnews.org/article/watching-for-the-buffleheads/

 

Why an Oyster Comeback Would Benefit NYC.

Nagaraj, Shiva.

The Morning News. 2/7/22.

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/why-an-oyster-comeback-would-benefit-nyc

Books

 

Steinberg, Ted. Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York.

Simon and Schuster. 2014.

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