Fort Schuyler Magazine

ON THE WATERFRONT

Waterfront staff and students from THE MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROGRAM collaborate on two projects this year

KELP Captain Joseph Sullivan has been working with Stony Brook staff, Maritime College faculty, and student researchers on a Long Island Sound Study research project to grow kelp, a native species that can help improve water quality by removing excess nitrogen from the water. The kelp is being tested to see how it can be used commercially as a fertilizer, food, or cosmetic additive. The harvest of Maritime’s kelp crop, which is promoted as one of the healthiest of the dozen or so similar projects around Long Island this winter, took place during late spring/early summer.

OYSTERS For the past three years, Olivet Pier has served as an oyster nursery as part of a unique collaboration between Maritime College faculty and staff and the Billion Oyster Project. Due to the pier work in preparation for the new training ship’s arrival in 2023, the oysters in “super trays” alongside the pier were removed in the early summer and added to the oyster reef being established on the Soundview Reef.

Maritime Students Help ROCK MANHATTAN

On September 24, participants in Rocking the Boat’s 14th annual fall fundraiser, Rocking Manhattan, rowed 29.5 miles in nine hours to complete a full circumnavigation around the island. Maritime College helped to keep the rowers safe. Miles Ripka 1/c and junior Jack Soodek departed campus before dawn in the college’s two fast rescue boats to meet the rowers who departed One°15 Brooklyn Marina. The group traveled up the East River, across the Harlem River at the northern tip of Manhattan, and down the Hudson River, ending at One° 15 Brooklyn Marina. Almost 120 participants, 9 teams and 13 rowboats were on hand. The event raised $531,000.

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