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Our shell collection program ends with bagging cured shells, which have been collected from our restaurant partners over the spring, summer, and fall and taken to the landfill for curing. This is made possible through the generosity of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and support of the Billion Oyster Project , ...

Water quality is an important factor in an oyster’s life cycle and needs to be measured frequently throughout the year. We use a handheld water-quality sonde with sensors that measure the water’s temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pH, and turbidity. Participants will be taken out on the CIOR skiff t , ...

Participants in this workshop go out on the CIOR skiff to see the Billion Oyster Project’s cages that are monitored in strategic locations around City Island. The cages are lifted out of the water so that participants can make observations and record conditions such as spat accumulation, density, and oyster growth. In , ...

In this workshop we will discuss the important role of wetlands in the context of climate change—as habitat, flood and erosion mitigation, and storm-water filtration. We will introduce CIOR’s proposal for returning the site behind P.S. 175 to a living shoreline, in partnership with the NYC Parks and Recreation and the , ...

The workshop will help to build awareness of the ways in which plastic waste, marine debris, litter, and even raw sewage enter the waterways of the Long Island Sound. It will explain the dangers of plastic, which never biodegrades but release such toxic additives in the water as flame retardants, antimicrobials, and pl , ...

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Our shell collection program ends with bagging cured shells, which have been collected from our restaurant partners over the spring, summer, and fall and taken to the landfill for curing. This is made possible through the generosity of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and support of the Billion Oyster Project , ...