Dear Members and Stakeholders,
The Jamaica Bay Ecowatcher’s and the American Littoral Society will be hosting the Annual Spring Jamaica Bay Taskforce Meeting -via zoom on June 18th 2024 at 6:30pm. The waiting room for the general audience will open at 6:00 pm. Please see agenda and Zoom link info below:
If you have any issues with logging in to the meeting that day please email alexandra@littoralsociety.org
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AGENDA
6:20-6:30: Meeting Waiting room will open –
6:30-6:50: Dan Mundy Sr JBEW and Don Riepe ALS - Meet & Greet: Acknowledgement of Elected Officials, Agencies, And Organizations Present
6:50 to 7:05: Lisa Baron – Project Manager USACE- New York District Programs and Project Management- Civil Works Branch—"Stony Creek Wetland Island Restoration Project.”
7:05 to 7:20: Andrew Rella Technical Director Of Business Development. ECOncrete-presenting on The Staten Island Living Shoreline Project.
7:20 to 7:35: John McLaughlin- Managing Director NYC Environmental Protection Bureau of Environmental Planning & Analysis Office of Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure and Research presenting on DEP Ribbed Mussel Water Quality Improvement Project Update
7:35 to 7:50 Beryl Kahn CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College. Presenting on De-vegetated marshes may contribute reactive nitrogen to urban estuaries"
7:50 to 8:05 Boone Davis – President & CEO of Arthur Kill Terminal and Eric Rothstein – Managing Partner of EDesign Dynamics presenting on will be Proposed Tidal Wetlands Restoration Project at Black Bank Marsh
8:05 to 8:30: Q and A session
Co-chairs: Dan Mundy & Don Riepe