Contact:
Helen Cheng, NYSG's Coastal Resilience Extension Specialist, E: helen.cheng@cornell.edu P: (718)-951-5415
Brooklyn, NY, January 20, 2019 - Queens residents are being asked to take part in a pilot program where they report flooding in their own communities in the hopes that those issues are going to be resolved in some way.
As seen on NY1, the Jamaica Bay Community Flood Watch Project is being run by the Science and Resilience Institute @ Jamaica Bay (SRIJB). The program trains residents how to document flood data from places around Jamaica Bay. Information is then shared with scientists and city officials who address flooding concerns.
"If we can get on-the-ground information the more we can better our research as well as better prepare our residents for future coastal hazards," says New York Sea Grant's Coastal Resilience Specialist Helen Cheng, whose position is supported through a partnership with the SRIJB.
If you want to take part, the pilot program is expected to run until at least the end of this year, but it could last into 2020.
The outreach program that Cheng heads up, which is detailed online at nyseagrant.org/jamaicabay and srijb.org, focuses on community engagement and research efforts to enhance resilience for the communities within the Jamaica Bay Watershed.
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More Info: New York Sea Grant and SRIatJB
The Science and Resilience Institute @ Jamaica Bay
(SRIJB) is a research center focused on enhancing environmental,
social, and economic resilience in communities of Jamaica Bay funded by
the Rockefeller Foundation and the City of New York.
New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University
and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based
programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
National Sea Grant College Program.
Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated
research, education and extension services promoting coastal community
economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness
and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.
Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists
and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based
information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries,
federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers,
educators, the media and the interested public.
The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY
Buffalo, SUNY Oswego and the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office
in Newark. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook
University in Long Island, Brooklyn College and Cornell Cooperative
Extension in NYC and Kingston in the Hudson Valley.
For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly. Our program also produces an occasional e-newsletter,"NOAA Sea Grant's Social Media Review," via its blog, www.nyseagrant.org/blog.
