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Farther Afield: Returning Pinehurst Golf Course to Nature
Nestled amongst the sand hills of North Carolina’s Piedmont region, the Pinehurst Resort’s Golf Course has done much to reduce its impact on local water infrastructure. Prior to the restoration, there...
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Farther Afield: Insect-based feed innovations
Think about bugs; now think about billions of insects concentrated in one facility. Some might get queasy at this thought; however, that is exactly what is happening at a new 90,000 square foot...
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Farther Afield: Singapore’s Farms, Towers and Open Water
With a population of nearly 5.4 million people on less than 300 square miles of land, Singapore is the third densest country in the world. Once a part of Malaysia, it became an independent nation in...
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From Behind the Mounds: Meet Cait Field, Research Program Manager
From commercially sailing NYC waterways to conducting doctoral research on South American weakly fish, Cait Field brings experience as a scientist, mariner and educator to her new job as the Freshkills...
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Farther Afield: NYC Curbside Gardens
Well known to city dwellers, the urban landscape is dominated by impervious hard surfaces that require manmade sewage infrastructure to handle all rainfall and storm water management. In normally...
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Citizen Science: Water Monitoring Project for Students
This spring, 6th-12th grade students in Staten Island will have the chance to participate in a Citizen Science water monitoring project at Freshkills Park. The project will be overseen by Manager of...
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Saw Mill Creek and the First NYC Wetlands Mitigation Bank
New York City is in the process of creating its first wetland mitigation bank in the marshlands surrounding Saw Mill Creek on Staten Island. Saw Mill Creek, a tributary to Prall’s Creek and the...
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Students Learn About Water Quality at Freshkills Park
This May and June, over 100 students and teachers from Staten Island travelled to Freshkills Park to volunteer in the introductory phase of a new water monitoring program. They were studying the...
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The Staten Island Bluebelt Expands Again
Image: NYC Department of Design and Construction. The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Department of Design and Construction (DDC) recently completed the Sweet Brook system, the...
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Fish Monitoring Seining Program Continues in 2019
Throughout August, Freshkills Park researchers have been monitoring the diversity of fish species in the park’s Main Creek. This research has been ongoing since 2016 as a means of staying up to date...
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