Day in the Life of the Hudson River Estuary Participants, 2008
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Hudson River Estuary Program
This list includes 54 sites hosting students on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008. RM refers to River Miles up the river as
measured from the Battery at Manhattan. “NY Hbr” refers to New York Harbor, and “ER” is East River. Additional
information including contact information on teachers and partner organizations is available from:
Chris Bowser (chbowser@gw.dec.state.ny.us; 845-264-5041)
Margie Turrin (mkt@ldeo.columbia.edu; 845-365-8494).
RM
River Site
Time
Partner Organization
School
Teacher
NY
Hbr
NY
Hbr
Jamaica Bay
Breezy Pt.
Canarsie Park/
Jamaica Bay
10-1
National Park Service
10:45-1
NYSDEC Region 2 SCA
Beach Channel High
School
International High
School 883
NY
Hbr
Verrazano
Bridge/ See
Bee Park
Staten Is NP
Brooklyn Manhattan
Bridge NYC
Brooklyn Manhattan
Bridge (EmpireFulton Park)
Stuyvesant
Cove, NYC
10:0011:30
Nat Parks of NY Harbor
Education Center,
National Park Service;
IS 27 from Clove
Lakes on Staten
Island
Jennifer Porchedu
20 students
Mike Incze
Jenny Shao
90 students
Maureen Bridgman
20 students
10-1
Lower East Side Ecology
Center;
PS 126 MAT
Bryce Cahn
9AM10AM
Coastal Marine Resource
Center
The Brooklyn Interntl.
High School
Kathleen Rucker
17 students
9:30 -11
1-2:30
Solar One
Newtown
Creek Nature
Walk
Barretto Point
Park
Pier 40, NYC
Pier 40, NYC
10AM
New York City DEP
MS324
PS 33
Manhattan
Comprehensive Night
& Day School
PS 78 Q
Mitchell Preslin
Erin Lubick
Susan Price
Mark Testa
80 students
Walter Ditman
PS 382
Michael Dong
80 students
Karen Johnson
Roy Arezzo & Ann
Fraoli
Rachel Byron-Law
ER
ER
ER
ER
ER
2
2
2.5
River Project
NY/NJ Baykeeper
4
Pier 84, NYC
9:30-1:00
The Science Barge/New
York Sun Works
New York City Soil and
Water Conservation
District & New York
University
Hudson River Park Trust,
5
Pier 95, NYC
10-11:30
None
6
79th Street Boat
Basin, NYC
9-12; 1-4
Hudson River Sloop
Clearwater
5
79th Street Boat
Basin, NYC
10:202:30 PM
South Street Seaport
Museum/Lettie G.
Howard
10
Riverside Park
10:30 –
2:00
3
The Science
Barge
Christopher St
Pier, NYC
10AM 1PM
11-2
11AM3PM
10AM 1PM
9-3:00
Trevor Day School
New York Harbor
School
School for
International Studies
PS 3,
Calhoun School,
MS 142
PS 51
Midtown West, PS
212
Bank Street School
Amy Landau
Michele Weintraub
Dana Goldberg,
Shelley Grant
Mark Soobyiah
Penina Steinberg
Harbor School
Rebecca Grussgott
P.S. 161 Don Pedro
Albizu Campos
School
Mary Harrington
79 students
HrlR
12
HrlR
13
Hrl13
13
14
17
18
19
25W
25E
28
30
31
32
36
41
45
57
58
61
61
Roberto
Clemente State
Park, HREC
Swindler Cove,
NYC (Harlem
River)
10-1:00
Urban Divers
Booker T Washington
MS
Virginia Young
Anne Marie Nowak
10-1
New York Restoration
Project
PS 311 Amistad Dual
Language School
Amy Withers
Sherman Cove,
NYC (Harlem
River)
Englewood, NJ
3-6
Friends of Sherman Cove
George Washington
High School, MS319
Obed Fulcar,
Mari Sari
9:3012:30
Meadowlands
Environmental Center:
West New York
School
Inwood Park,
NYC (Harlem
River)
Mt. St. Vincent
College
Habirshaw
Park, Yonkers
10-2
New York Parks
12:301:30
9:30
None
Young Women’s
Leadership School,
Bronx Science
Mt. St. Vincent
College
Saunders High
School
Judi Bettancourt,
Pat Flynn, Michelle
Dorian
Susan Vincent
Alpine Boat
Basin, NJ
Piermont Pier,
Piermont
Beczak Environmental
Center
None
The Elizabeth
Morrow School
Pearl River High
School, Tappan Zee
High School,
Clarkstown South HS
Main Street School
Pat Grove
Harry Hall
Leslie Day
Gary Lyon
Tom Mullane
Sheryl Turk
Brian Newbuger
Jen Mazza
Phillip Levine
Joan Snell
Tom Perry
Dinorah Hudson
9-2
Lamont Doherty Earth
Observatory
Mathiessen
Park, Irvington
Memorial Park,
Nyack
9:30-2:30
Ben Kwiatkowski,
Irvington HS
None
Kingsland Point
Park
Hook Mountain
Park
Ossining
9AM1PM
Croton Point
Park, Crotonon-Hudson
9-2
Westchester County
Parks Dept.
Steamboat
Dock,
Verplanck
West Point,
South Dock
Donahue
Memorial Park
Kowawesie,
Cornwall-onHudson
Newburgh
Landing,
Newburgh
Long Dock,
Beacon
10-12:30
Teatown Lake
Reservation
Carrie E. Tompkins
School,
Croton Harmon High
School
Mahopac High
School
11:10AM
-1:45PM
Constitution
Marsh/Audubon Society
Trailside Museum & Zoo
West Point Middle
School
Willow Ave. School
Tricia Willis
8:30
Museum of Hudson
Highlands;
Bishop Dunn School
Bernadette Kleister
12:45-3
Janie Low City of
Newburgh
Horizons on Hudson
Alice Kish
Matt Barbero
9:30-2
Scenic Hudson,
NYSDEC, Hudson River
Sloop Clearwater
South Avenue Elem.
School, Forrestal
Elementary, Lenape
School
Kelley Bender;
Aaron Burke;
Linda Houlihan
Linda Sinforoso
9:30-1:30
1-3
None
Strawtown Art & Garden
Studio
None
Nyack High School
Sleepy Hollow High
School
Blue Rock School
Chris Adamo
Ossining High School
Valerie Homes,
Bridget Kenny
Patricia AllberryLynch
Donna-Light
Donovan
Bob Connick
Lorraine Komar
Debbie Gilson
Waryas Park,
Poughkeepsie
Quiet Cove
9:3012:45
9-1:30
Mid-Hudson Children’s
Museum
Cornell Cooperative
Extension
Sheafe Road Elem.
School
Krieger Elem. School
Gayhead School
Jon Sokol
84.5
Norrie Pt.,
Staatsburgh
9:30-2
Hudson River Research
Reserve
Bryan Woods
Johanna Tomik
87
Esopus
Meadows Point
Park, Ulster
Park
Kingston Point
Park, Kingston
Ulster Landing
Park, Kingston
Saugerties
Lighthouse,
Saugerties
Cohotate
Preserve,
Greene Co.
Nutten Hook,
Stuyvesant
9:30 –
1:30
Clearwater
Poughkeepsie High
School
Haviland MS
George Washington
Elementary Kingston
10-1:30
Forsyth Nature Center
Dutchess ARC
Jamie Carey
9-1:30
None
Kingston High School
Dixon Onderdonk
10-2
Hudson River Research
Reserve
Woodstock Day
School
Mary Henry
8:45-12
& 10-12
Cornell Cooperative
Extension
Tony Loughran
Kathy Durkin
9-12
Stuyvesant
Landing,
Stuyvesant
Schodack Is.
State Park
Henry Hudson
Park
Rensselaer
Riverfront Park
Corning
Preserve
3-5
Columbia Land
Conservancy, Fran
Martino
Columbia County Soil
and Water Conservation
District
Children’s Museum of
Science and Tech.
NYSDEC Five Rivers
Coxsackie-Athens
High School, Catskill
Central School
Hudson High School
Alternative Learning
Center, Darrow
School
School 12
Claudia Kenney,
Zooey Salazar,
Sarah Williams
Mr. West
Goff Middle School
Ron Montesi
Tech Valley High
School
Rensselaer Middle
School, New Visions
Science & Research
High School
Delaware Community
School
Minerva School
District
Leah Penniman
76
78
92
96.5
102
115
124.5
127
133
138
152
145
145
300
Corning
Preserve
Henderson
Lake/Hudson
Rv.
10-1
9:30-1
10-12
10-1:30
Hudson Basin River
Watch
Half Moon: New
Netherlands Museum
The College of St. Rose
9-1:30
Darrin Freshwater Instit.
Of RPI; Roosevelt Wildlife
Station of SUNY ESF
Skip Hoover
Tracy Zeoli
Donna Nageli
Jim McDarby
Jane Plantania
Ruth Russell
Susan Schiavoni
Sarah Fink