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Tag Archives: estuary
Birds-Eye and Fish-Eye Views of Irene’s Floodwaters
Approaching the anniversary of last year’s landfall in New York City of Tropical Storm Irene, I decided to make some animations of that storm’s flood elevations and water currents. The model-based animations have voice-overs explaining what happened in the water during … Continue reading
Posted in water, weather
Tagged animation, cyclone, estuary, Hudson River, hurricane, hydrology, Irene, long island, movie, new jersey, New York City, river, salinity, speed, stage, storm surge, tide, tropical storm, velocity, wind
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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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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
Urban Oceanographer: The Lights of Manhattan Island
All good sea stories should begin with “no shi#, there I was”. This is one of those. [censored to avoid continuing to get blocked by school obscenity filters …] Back in the summer of 1994, Professor Tom Herrington and I … Continue reading
Posted in urbanoceanographer
Tagged estuary, harbor, Hudson River, Manhattan, new jersey, oceanographer, port, storytelling
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The Hudson’s 20-foot Breaking Waves
The Hudson takes on a tremendous load of pollutants due to its proximity to New York City, yet typically disperses these pollutants without severe environmental degradation. Through field deployments on the Hudson, we have observed vigorous turbulent mixing driven by … Continue reading
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Tagged estuary, fluid dynamics, Haverstraw Bay, Hudson River, internal waves, Kelvin-Helmholtz, turbulence, wave
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