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Category Archives: water
Jamaica Bay Restoration: Anything is Possible if You’re Strategic
[This is a guest post from Charles “Si” Simenstad, Research Professor; Wetland Ecosystem Team, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, in response to the question posed in a prior post, “What specific actions would you propose, if … Continue reading
Posted in opinion, water
Tagged Baylands, estuary, Jamaica Bay, oxygen, Puget Sound, resilience, restoration, revitalization, San Francisco Bay, shoreline, Simenstad, urban, wetland
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Jamaica Bay: What Restoration Steps would you Propose?
In an earlier post, I argued that Jamaica Bay is not New York City’s “crown jewel” and has many problems, such as sewage spills, low-oxygen dead zones, and disappearing marshes and islands. Hundreds of thousands of people living in neighborhoods … Continue reading
Posted in opinion, water
Tagged Chesapeake Bay, CSO, dead zone, ecosystem, estuary, Everglades, Jamaica Bay, marsh, New York City, oxygen, pollution, Puget Sound, restoration, Salazar, San Francisco Bay, sea level rise, South Florida, urban, wastewater
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Rising Waters and Coastal Floods: Living with Sea Level Rise in NYC, Part 2/2
[This is the second of a pair of guest blog posts from Dr. Vivien Gornitz, a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research. The first post … Continue reading
Posted in climate, water
Tagged adaptation, Bloomberg, carbon dioxide, climate change, Coney, erosion, flooding, global warming, ice, Jamaica Bay, long island, meltwater, New York City, population, Rockaway, sea level rise, urban, Vivien Gornitz, waterfront plan
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Rising Waters and Coastal Floods: Living with Sea Level Rise in NYC, Part 1/2
[This is the first of a pair of guest blog posts from Dr. Vivien Gornitz, a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research. The first post … Continue reading
Posted in climate, water
Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, glacier, global warming, ice, ice age, interglacial, melt, meltwater, Pliocene, sea level rise, Vivien Gornitz
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Jamaica Bay: Pollution, Flooding and Human Vulnerability
Jamaica Bay is often referred to as New York City’s “ecological crown jewel”, and it is indeed a spectacular location to view migrating birds or catch large sport fish like striped bass, among other positives. However, the bay has some … Continue reading
Posted in opinion, water
Tagged CSO, dredging, effluent, flooding, Jamaica Bay, marsh, New York City, nutrients, restoration, sewage, storm surge, treatment, vulnerability, watershed, wetland
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Rain-Wind-Tide Flooding Trifecta
Though it will in no way compare to the ongoing flooding problems in other regions of our continent, we’ll likely be hearing about our own sogginess at some flood-prone parts of the region from now through Thursday. Any flooding that … Continue reading
Posted in water, weather
Tagged flooding, Freeport, Manhattan, New York City, rain, South Oyster Bay, spring tide, storm surge, The Battery
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Rain- and Wind-Driven Coastal Flooding
I’ve been receiving automated notifications on coastal flooding from the Storm Surge Warning System today. The nor’easter that is hitting us is packing 20-40 mile per hour winds, and driving water against our shorelines. Water levels are expected to peak … Continue reading
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Tagged flooding, Floyd, hurricane, hydrology, New York City, nor'easter, storm surge, warning system, wind
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Hudson River or Estuary? (you may be surprised)
An estuary is defined as a semi-enclosed body of brackish water – a mixture of salty and fresh water. So strictly speaking, the Hudson by Manhattan and northward past the Tappan Zee is normally an estuary and typically has more … Continue reading
The Hudson’s Supermoon Spring Tides and Freshet
In the off-chance that you haven’t heard about the supermoon – it’s the name someone came up with for the time that occurs every few decades when the moon is at the closest point of its elliptical orbit around Earth, … Continue reading
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Tagged beachcombing, flooding, freshet, Hudson River, perigee, spring tide, supermoon
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