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The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School. Oyster Restoration and Research Project. The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School Advanced Aquaculture Class Fall 2010. Harbor School Loves Oysters. Harbor School’s Oyster History. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School
Oyster Restoration and Research Project
The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School
Advanced Aquaculture ClassFall 2010
Harbor School Loves Oysters
Harbor School’s Oyster History• Harbor School and Baykeeper have been
working together to restore oysters to the Harbor since the school’s inception
• 2003 Harbor School Students clean and monitor oyster gardens at pier 40.
• 2004: Harbor Corps begins patrolling the city to work on about 30 different oyster gardens
• 2007 Bart Chezar of the Bay Ridge Flats Oyster Project starts working with the Harbor School Dive team on his groundbreaking reef on the Bay Ridge Flats
• 2008: First generation Floating Upweller System built, 100,000 oysters on Governors Island
• 2009: The new Eco-dock was in place on Governors Island holding 500,000 oysters
• 2010: Harbor School joins the Oyster Restoration and Research Partnership
Harbor School Oyster Work
Why Oysters?
Oysters and our CTE Department• Oysters, and oyster projects are excellent
platforms for our Career Training classes• We hope to have all of our CTE classes
working together on this project• To date Aquaculture, Advanced Vessel
Operations and the Student Scientific Divers have collaborated in building and monitoring our reefs
• In the future we hope to include Marine Engineering’s remote operated vehicles and Marine Policy’s young writers
Oyster Restoration Research Project
• Project Overview• Remote Setting• Nursery/Growout• Reef Construction• Monitoring
Partners!
Oyster Restoration Research Project Partners include, the Hudson River Foundation, NY/NJ Baykeeper, US Army Corps of Engineers, The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, The New York Harbor Foundation, The US Environmental Protection Agency, The Trust for Governors Island, NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program, NY City Department of Parks and Recreation, NY City Department of Environmental Protection, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation – Hudson River Program, Hudson River Park Trust, NOAA Restoration Center, Bart Chezar (Bay Ridge Flats Oyster Project), Rocking the Boat.
Reef Sites
Dive Sites:Governors Island, Bay Ridge Flats and Staten Island (not shown)Wading Sites:Hastings and Soundview Park
Eco-dock, pier 101
Remote Setting and Clam Shell Storage, Lima Pier
Remote Setting Facility on Lima Pier
Filter Pump Head Tank Setting Tanks Pier
2mm Spat On Shell
800 Watt heating element
Mesh bag with shell
4mm Spat on Shell
Remote Setting Results
Remote Setting Lessons LearnedThings we can do better
Nursery and Growout
Pearl Net
Lantern Net
Spat on Shell Ready for Deployment
Growout lessons learned
Reef Design
US Army Corps of Engineers install the rock and shell on the Bay Ridge Flats Reef
Harvesting Techniques and Monitoring
Oyster distribut
Harvesting and Spat on Shell Deployment
Diving Safely in New York Harbor• SCUBA instructors Joe Gessert and
Liv Dillon organized a Dive control Board made up of commercial divers
• This led to new protocols including full face masks, tethered dives, and safety divers ready at all times
• Currently Harbor School is in the process of becoming a scientific diver training facility
• This project would not have been possible without the dedication of our divers
• Students and teachers routinely arrived on Governors Island hours before school, often while it was still dark
• Despite air temperatures below 40° and water temperatures below 50° all 250,000 oysters are down
Buckets as Standard