A Day in the Life of the Hudson and Harbor

October 22, 2019

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In 2019 we celebrated our 17th annual 'Day in the Life of the Hudson and Harbor'. In NYC more sites are including oyster cage sampling as part of their day, while our upriver sites look forward to visits from the DEC fisheries teams who bring full sized fish to many sites for the students to identify and enjoy. The image to the left was collected by a drone circling over Peekskill's waterfront. For 2019 we hosted ~5300 samplers at ~100 sites along the river, as groups enjoyed the challenge and opportunity of working outdoors. Through the years we have worked with ~ 56,000 students, teachers and environmental educators measuring salinity, chemistry, turbidity, biology and sediments. Over 33,000 fish from 80 different species have been netted, representing over one third of the 228 species documented in the Hudson River watershed! Worksheets from 2019 are available: Salinity Sheets Student & Teacher - Fish Sheets Student & Teacher.

October 22nd arrived with threats of showers and a thick fog that blanketed the estuary. Although much of the summer had been really dry, burst of rain in September and October provided the waershed with much needed rains and kept the saltfront pushed down to below Newburgh Bay. Some sites upriver posted salinities below the detecable limits of our sampling (<32 ppm) but the salt front (100 ppm chloride) was located back in a range where we would expect to find it at this time of year. Salt Front ~ RM 53 just north of West Point.

*Grey designates a HS or undergrad partner site

Site Names/Locations

 Site Data (word or xls) Site Data (pdf)

Site Names/Locations

 Site Data (word or xls) Site Data (pdf)
Files by Parameter Hoosick River, Hoosick Falls High School Hoosick Hoosick

Nyack Memorial Park NYHS

RM28

RM28

Sites & Participating Groups

Schoharie Creek, Middleburgh HS

 Mohawk Drainage Mohawk Drainage

Nyack Memorial Park AM Liberty ES

Liberty ES RM28

Liberty ES RM28
Tabbed Masterfile of all items below (xls) Niskayuna Lock 7, River Run Community Mohawk River

Mohawk River

Nyack Memorial Park PM UNES

UNES RM28

UNES RM28
Below: Parameter files by pdf

Hudson Crossing Park, Schuylerville, Lock 5

 RM200 RM200 Piermont Pier, Piermont RM25.4 RM25.4
Physical Factors

Peebles Island - HS

 RM154 RM154 Matthiessen Park, Irvington RM25 RM25
Turbidity Hudson Shores Park, Watervleit RM152 RM152 Dobbs Ferry RM23 RM23
Tides Hudson Shores Park, Watervleit GS 10/21 RM152 RM152 MacEachron Park, Hastings RM22 RM22

Currents

Rensselaer Boat Launch, TVHS

 RM146 RM146 Alpine Boat Basin, Alpine NJ (Alpine ES) RM19 RM19
Salinity (student reported) Corning Preserve, Albany RM145.5 RM145.5 Alpine Boat Basin, Alpine NJ (PHS) RM19 RM19

Salinity Standardized /collected water samples

Papscanee Preserve RM140 RM140 Beczak,Habirshaw Park, Yonkers RM18.3 RM18.3

Chemistry - D.O. & pH (also Nit/Phos/Alk)

 Henry Hudson Park, Bethlehem RM138 RM138 Englewood Boat Basin, NJ RM14 RM14

Fish Catch

 Schodack Island RM133.4 RM133.4

Inwood Hill Park, Hudson River

RM12.75

RM12.75
Macroinvertebrate Catch Hannacroix Creek Preserve RM132.5 RM132.5 Fort Washington Park RM11.5 RM11.5
  Nutten Hook Unique Area RM 124.5 RM 124.5

Pier 125th St., NYC, Columbia Secondary

 RM10 RM10
  Riverfront Park, Coxsackie RM123

RM123

 Pier 125th St., NYC, Baylander Sampling RM10 RM10
Hudson Waterfront Park, Hudson ES RM117 RM117 Pier i, 59th Street - Riverside Park RM6.8 RM6.8
Hudson Waterfront Park, Hudson HS RM117 RM117 Hudson River Park Pier 96 RM6.1 RM6.1
Lasher Memorial Park, Germantown RM108.5 RM108.5 Hudson River Park Pier 84 AM & PM RM5.6 RM5.6
Falling Water, Glasco, Ulster RM100.5 RM100.5 Hudson River Park Pier 62 - (PS340)

RM4.4

 RM4.4
Tivoli Bay South, Redhook

RM98

 RM98 Hudson River Park Pier 45 - (Lab HS)

RM3.2

RM3.2
Ulster Landing Park, Saugerties, KHS RM97 RM97 Hudson River Park ~Pier 45 (NYSWD) RM3.2 RM3.2
Ulster Landing Park, Saugerties, ES

RM97

RM97

 Hudson River Park Pier 40 RM2.9 RM2.9
Kingston Point, Kingston, Farm Club RM92 RM92 Morris Canal Basin, New Jersey RM0.5 RM0.5
Kingston Point, Kingston RM92 RM92 Randall's & Ward's Island HrlRM1 HrlRM1
George Freer Park, Port Ewen RM90.5 RM90.5 Concrete Plant, Bronx River (Pelham HS) BrxRM4.5 BrxRM4.5
Esopus Meadows, Ulster Park

RM87

 RM87 Concrete Plant, Bronx River (Bronx HS) BrxRM4.5 BrxRM4.5
Norrie Point, Staatsburgh, PHS

RM84.5

RM84.5

Hunts Point, Bronx River

 BrxRM4 BrxRM4
Norrie Point, Staatsburgh, MHS

RM84.5

RM84.5

 Little Bay, Fort Totten Park, East River ER RM15.2 ER RM15.2
Quiet Cove, Poughkeepsie RM78 RM78 Francis Lewis Park, East River, ER RM13.7 ER RM13.7
Chelsea Boat Launch, Wappinger Falls RM65 RM65

Gantry Plaza Pier 1, East River

ER RM5.7 ER RM5.7
Beacon Waterfront, Clearwater RM61.2 RM61.2 Gantry Pier 4/Hunters Point, East River ER RM5.6 ER RM5.6
Riverfront Park, Beacon RM61.2 RM61.2 Brooklyn Bridge West-East River-MI ER RM2.3 ER RM2.3
Long Dock, Beacon RM61 RM61 Brooklyn Bridge West-East River-LP ER RM2.3 ER RM2.3
People's Waterfront & Boat Launch, Newburgh RM60.5 RM60.5 Brooklyn Bridge West-East River-UA ER RM2.3 ER RM2.3
Beacon Dock (Clearwater) RM 60.1 RM 60.1 Brooklyn Bridge Park East-East River, BF ER RM1.7 ER RM1.7
Dennings Point, Beacon RM60 RM60 Brooklyn Bridge Park East-East River-MS915 ER RM1.7 ER RM1.7
Plum Point, New Windsor RM58.1 RM58.1 Brooklyn Bridge Park East-East River-SHS ER RM1.7 ER RM1.7
Cornwall Landing RM57 RM57 Governor's Island, Manhattan

NHY-1

 NHY-1
West Point, South of Gee's Point

RM52

 RM52

Valentino Pier, Red Hook

NYH-2.3

NYH-2.3
Garrison Landing, Garrison RM51.5 RM51.5 Austen House, Staten Island NYH-4.1 NYH-4.1
Riverfront Green, Peekskill RM43.5 RM43.5 Pier 1 Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island NYH-4.5 NYH-4.5
Verplanck, Steamboat Dock RM41

RM41

 Canarsie Pier, PtoG HS NYH-5.3 NYH-5.3
Haverstraw Bay County Park RM38 RM38 Canarsie Pier, IHS NYH-5.3 NYH-5.3

Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson HS

RM35

RM35

 Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island NYH -7.5 NYH -7.5

Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson ES

RM35

RM35

 Gerritsen Creek, Brooklyn NYH-8.0 NYH-8.0
Louis Engel Park, Ossining RM32.5 RM32.5 Kaiser Park, Brooklyn NYH-8.5 NYH-8.5
Lower Nyack Beach, Nyack - Blue Rock RM30.4 RM30.4 Coney Island Pier, Brooklyn NYH-9.1 NYH-9.1
Kingsland Point Park, Tarrytown RM28.5 RM28.5 Great Kills Park, Staten Island RM -11.2 RM -11.2

 

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