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Moderated by: Dr. John Waldman
Panelists: Deborah A. Mans • Christopher J. Collins• Cortney
Worrall • Murray Fisher • William Kornblum
Deborah A. MansNew York/New Jersey Baykeeper
Turning the Tide: New York’s Waterfront in Transition
Reviving the Estuary: Science and Education
Debbie Mans, NY/NJ Baykeeper
PROTECT
PRESERVE
RESTORE
Scientific Research in the Oyster Program
Research Targets for Urban Restoration:
• Survival of oysters
• Restoration design in altered systems
• Optimizing design for larval recruitment
Policy Research: How do we create a working relationship with regulators?
Oyster Survival
• Growth/Mortality field study in Raritan Bay, 2007-2008, and 2008-2009
• Test cages placed in Fall, monitored in Spring and Summer
• Western Raritan Bay vs. Keyport Harbor
• High mortality in WRB, Low mortality in KH
• Oysters in WRB also did not reproduce. (no eggs found)
• Survival and Fitness is very site specific!
Staten Island
Appx 4.5 miles
Urban Restoration Design
• Keyport Reef 2001, built by Chesapeake Model: shell mound with live oysters on top
• Over winter, storm and wave activity dispersed the entire ¼ acre reef.
• Keyport Reef 2009, experiment with Rutgers testing three structures to hold oysters in place: Reefblk; Reef Ball; Rutgers Arch (designed specifically for this project)
2001: Shell mounds 2009: Reef Ball
2009: Reefblk™2009: Rutgers Arch
Larval Recruitment
• Spat settlement study: to determine where larvae are settling, relative to current restoration sites.
• Restrictions on restoration permits due to water quality prevent adding live oysters in certain areas.
• Identify areas of larval settling and acquire permits to build structure only; oysters will settle there “naturally”.
Spat-on-shell, aquacultured
Bags of “blank” clam shell will be placed in radius around reef sites & aquaculture facility
Science Education: Oyster Gardening
Oyster gardening is a critical part of Baykeeper’s
restoration effort:
• Gardeners grow reproductively mature adults to be placed on reefs and populate the waterways with oyster larvae
• Gardeners collect monthly growth and mortality data and observations about water quality, weather, and organisms growing on their float.
• Many schools participate in gardening for an excellent hands-on learning experience.
Interdisciplinary Science
Oyster gardening experience provides opportunities for education in many disciplines:
– Math & Statistics: measuring and calculating averages, percentages, change in rate over time
– Biology: observation of oyster health, anatomy and function of oysters, oyster life cycle
– Ecology: observing interactions of organisms within the garden, identifying predators vs. prey, symbiotic/parasitic relationships
– Chemistry: water quality monitoring can be conducted in addition to the growth and mortality measurements
– Engineering & Physics: some locations require innovative ways to set up the garden and/or protect from vandalism, fast water, or other risks
– History: oysters played a vital role in the history of New York City and Northern NJ
– Economics: comparing the value of reefs as an industry vs. a natural resource; supply & demand; crash of the oyster industry in the HRE
Christopher J. CollinsSolar One
Solar One Presentation
April 28, 2010
Aerial View Site LocationDDC
Kiss and Cathcart, Architects
Solar 2 Building
03/02/2009
Solar 2 Building
03/02/2009
Site PhotoDDC
Kiss and Cathcart, Architects
Looking North East from Roof of
Peter Cooper Village
Solar 2 Building
03/02/2009
Site PhotoDDC
Kiss and Cathcart, Architects
Approach from south in
Stuyvesant Cove Park
Site Photo Current Building and
related Events at Site
DDC
Kiss and Cathcart, Architects
Solar 2 Building
03/02/2009
Solar One Programs
Education - 20000 students from 65 schools
• K-12 enrichment program: renewables, sustainable design,
estuary, horticulture
• Green Innovator HS curriculum (180 teachers trained);
• Green Design Lab Partnership with DOE
• Green Collar Workforce Training: Building performance,
PV installation, horticulture, deconstruction and green
youth entrepreneurship (2009 – 380 students participated;
2010 projected 1000+)
Solar One Programs Cont’d
Outreach
• Solar Advocacy and Education Program
• Energy efficiency public awareness programs – Green
Renter
• Solar One Energy Connections S1EC
Arts
• Solar Powered Film, Dance and Music Festival
• Citysol and Citysol Kids Day
• SunToStars
Solar 2
• NYC’s first carbon neutral, net zero energy building –
building generates all of the energy it uses from the
92.6kW PV solar array on its roof
• First building of its kind in the Northeast
• Addresses the issues of climate change, energy
independence and CO2 emissions
• Living building
• A place to articulate the goals and aims of the City’s
PlaNYC
• Expanded programs
• Cutting edge exhibits
Solar 2 Timeline – “Shovel
Ready” Project• Completed schematic design January 2009
• Design development completed March 2009
• Construction drawings completed Q1 2010
• Bidding and contracts negotiations - Fall 2010
• Start construction – Early 2011
NOTE: Project will generate 100-120 construction related union jobs for one year. Working with DEC for accelerated site remediation by Con Ed which will create yet additional jobs.
Broad Political Support
Solar 2 has secured broad political support with
funding from:
• Mayor Bloomberg (PlaNYC Initiative)
• Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
• State Senator Tom Duane
• Borough President Scott Stringer
• NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn
• NYC Council member Dan Garodnick
Cortney WorrallMetropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Murray FisherUrban Assembly New York Harbor School
Marine Science
Marine Technology
Governors Island
Building 550
William KornblumAuthor, At Sea in the City: New York at the Water’s Edge
Four views of the New York Waterfront
Sailor
citizen
Environmentalist
Professsor/Sociologist
A Sailor’s View: Please, a quiet spot to tie up for half an hour. The idea of town Docks – An MWA Initiative - Community Eco Docks are floating
docks that rise and fall with the tide, making them accessible to all types of vessels at all times during the day and night.
I don’t think there was a better way to see this installation than from a small boat under the Brooklyn Bridge. Olaf Eiasson’sWaterfalls, 2008
Citizen Activists are Key Players
• Most of the waterfront park and open space initiatives we have been hearing about during this series would not have been possible without the dedication of engaged citizens
• In the post Master Builder era of waterfront planning, many of the most creative initiatives have been the work of citizen visionaries
• Don’t Mourn, Organize!
An Environmental Question: How should global warming and the likelihood of rising water levels inform current plans for the waterfront
and its parks?
New Urban GroundARO and dlandstudioInstead of beating back the waters with impermeable walls, lower Manhattan could erect a defense line of giant grassy sponges. One of the projects at the current MOMA exhibit, Rising Currents
Not just an academic problem: The legacy of historic structures, a need for creative community-based approaches to use