- project leader
- Naima F
- location
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Pier 40, Hudson River(West Village)
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- We are funded and so thrilled!
the project
Your donation will help NYC students learn about the environment and each other. We want to start a community oyster restoration/research project at the Hudson River. With your support, we will be able to participate in the Billion Oyster Project. Our two neighborhood schools, PS 3 and City-As-School High school have oyster tanks in our schools and we are eager to put the oysters into oyster traps in the Hudson River this spring to help clean the river water and for us to study the ecology of the river by inspecting the traps regularly.
the steps
1. Continue to monitor and maintain our classroom tanks.
2. Deploy the oyster traps on May 22nd.
3. Visit the oyster traps on Tuesdays to measure the oysters, observe the plankton and other organisms and measure the water quality.
4. Continue maintaining and monitoring the traps through the spring, summer, and fall.
5. Bring some oysters back into the classroom tanks for continued study in the winter of 2019.
6. Return them in the spring to the traps.
why we're doing it
The project addresses both a social and an environmental problem. The obvious environmental problem is improving the Hudson River's water quality and bringing environmental awareness to students through hands-on investigations and stewardship. This project also has a meaningful social element as it brings students from different grades (high school and elementary) together to share their research and their understandings. This allows the high school students to be leaders in their investigation as they share their insight with the younger students who naturally listen to teens and look up to them as older peers. The high school students benefit from interacting with the younger students. High school students often tell me that it is nice to be reminded of the joy, awe, and curiosity that they had when they were young before they felt the pressure of "growing up."
budget
Disbursed budget (5.7.18):
| RAISED = | $940.00 |
| less ioby Platform Fee | waived |
| less ioby Donation Processing Fee (3%) | $27.38 |
| TOTAL TO DISBURSE = | $912.62 |
Original budget:
Plankton nets: $300
Restoration Trap fee: $200
La Motte Dissolved Oxygen tests: $120
Shellfish Diet 1800 phytoplankton concentrate (1 quart) $50
Water quality testing supplies: $170
| PROJECT SUBTOTAL = | $900 |
| ioby Platform Fee | waived |
| ioby Donation Processing Fee (3%) | $27 |
| TOTAL TO RAISE ON ioby= | $927 |
updates
We are funded and so thrilled!
Posted 05/01/2018 - 2:02pm
Thank you to everyone for your support!
Here is our plan:
On May 11th the Billion Oyster Project will train Naima and a student leader at Governor's Island on how to use the Oyster Research Station (oyster traps).
On May 22nd the Hudson River Project will train us to use the Oyster Research Station at Pier 40 with 12 CAS students, 2 CAS teachers, 2 PS 3 teachers and 1 PS3 Principal and we will deploy the trap.
On May 24th the CAS team of students will collect their first data: Oyster growth, water quality and observations of living things in the traps.
On June 12th The CAS team will return to collect data again.
Please join us if you have any interest. This project is a community endeavor (thanks to your support, the Billion Oyster Project, The Hudson River Park Trust, etc.) and the more people involved the better!
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or suggestions!
Best wishes,
Naima
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