Hudson River Foundation

Reflecting Our Community:
2020 Conference of the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program

November 9 – November 13
Our 2020 conference was focused on fostering better community engagement, highlighting the efforts of community leaders and other partners that are striving for more inclusive and equitable management of the Estuary and our waterfronts. The conference week included interactive sessions on fairer public access, community-led habitat restoration and water quality management, environmental justice, and advancing inclusiveness and diversity in the sciences and environmental professions.
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What’s Going On

Citizen Science

HEP Citizen Science Volunteer Platform

In order to continue conducting activities safely in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, partners have modified their standard operating procedures. The Lower Hudson Partnership (LHP) and NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP) have collected a number of helpful resources on COVID-19 protocols from partners across the Harbor Estuary and are highlighting them in our volunteer platform below.

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Conference

Reflecting Our Community: 2020 Conference of the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program

This year's conference is focused on fostering community engagement, highlighting the efforts of community leaders and other partners striving for more inclusive and equitable management of the Estuary and our waterfronts. The week will include interactive sessions on fairer public access, community-led habitat restoration and water quality management, environmental justice, and advancing inclusiveness and diversity in the sciences and environmental professions.

Educational Materials

Search, Sort, and Find Educational Materials Using our New Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers

These are times which call for the deepening of scientific literacy, and the importance of creating informed discourse and decisions about the future of our Harbor Estuary. HEP’s Educational Materials Resource Guide offers parents and teachers an up-to-date, searchable, sortable collection of resources from environmental educators across the Harbor Estuary.

Educational Materials

Search, Sort, and Find Educational Materials Using our New Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers

Tidal Exchange Newsletter

October 7th HEP Tidal Exchange: "Reflecting Our Community" Virtual Conference, Supporting Citizen Science During the Pandemic, and more!

Tidal Exchange Newsletter

October 7th HEP Tidal Exchange: "Reflecting Our Community" Virtual Conference, Supporting Citizen Science During the Pandemic, and more!

View the Latest HRF and HEP Publications including a Community Engagement Profile, an Oyster Monitoring Report, a Restoration Progress Report, and more.

Now Available: Social Assessment White Paper on Community Stewardship and Waterfront Programming

In efforts to obtain a deeper understanding of how higher need waterfront communities use and value their closest available open space resources such as urban waterways, and the types of programs and public access opportunities that will best engage waterfront community members, the HEP, Lower Passaic River Urban Waters Federal Partnership and USDA Forest Service partnered to create Connecting Passaic to the River: Dundee Island Waterfront Park and Community Engagement Profile. Click here to view our report.

Calendar

Dec 07

2-3:30 pm

2020

A Whale of a Tale: Acoustic Monitoring in the Upper and Lower New York Bay

Cetacean sightings have become increasingly common in the New York Bight, including in and around the Upper and Lower New York Bay. In order to better understand seasonal presence and habitat-use of cetaceans and levels of ocean noise in these nearshore waters, acoustic recorders were deployed over a two-year period.

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Dec 09

2020

Jersey Water Works Virtual Conference 2020

Don’t miss the sixth annual Jersey Water Works Conference on December 9-11! This multi-day virtual event will focus on finding innovative ways to upgrade New Jersey’s aging water infrastructure. Join more than 300 state and local decision-makers, practitioners, and stakeholders to learn about and discuss one of the biggest challenges facing our state.

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Reflecting Our Community:2020 Conference of the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program

What’s Going On

Citizen Science

HEP Citizen Science Volunteer Platform

Conference

Reflecting Our Community: 2020 Conference of the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program

Educational Materials

Search, Sort, and Find Educational Materials Using our New Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers

Educational Materials

Search, Sort, and Find Educational Materials Using our New Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers

Tidal Exchange Newsletter

October 7th HEP Tidal Exchange: "Reflecting Our Community" Virtual Conference, Supporting Citizen Science During the Pandemic, and more!

Tidal Exchange Newsletter

October 7th HEP Tidal Exchange: "Reflecting Our Community" Virtual Conference, Supporting Citizen Science During the Pandemic, and more!

View the Latest HRF and HEP Publications including a Community Engagement Profile, an Oyster Monitoring Report, a Restoration Progress Report, and more.

Now Available: Social Assessment White Paper on Community Stewardship and Waterfront Programming

Calendar

Dec 07

2-3:30 pm

2020

A Whale of a Tale: Acoustic Monitoring in the Upper and Lower New York Bay

Dec 09

2020

Jersey Water Works Virtual Conference 2020

Reflecting Our Community:
2020 Conference of the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program