Estuary Snapshot Day A Day in the Life of the Hudson River Estuary · Tom Lake, Hudson River Estuary Program naturalist South Avenue School, Beacon - Linda Houlihan (School cancelled

Estuary Snapshot Day A Day in the Life of the Hudson River Estuary

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Participants and Partners

RM 0 89 Pioneer St., Brooklyn NY 11231- Gowanus Canal The Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy – Ludger Balan Washington Irving High School – Ms. Jen Smith - 35 students; RM 2 Pier 26, Manhattan The River Project - Chris Anderson NYSDEC Region 2 - Nora Kennedy (Assisting)

PS 184 in Manhattan (Lower East Side) - Noreen Cornoni, 45 - 5th graders RM 3 Christopher Street Pier, Manhattan NYC Soil & Water Conservation District - Shino Tanikawa Bob Wallace, Mary Leou - Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban

Environmental Education/NYU NYSDEC Region 2 - Jennifer Conrad P.S. 3, Manhattan - Jessica Harvey, Cynthia Warresely, Susan Soler,

Samantha Restaino - 80 students RM 6 79th Street Boat Basin, Manhattan Metropolitan Montessori School - Grades K-6; 40 students - Ric Fry: NYC Soil & Water Conservation District - Aubrey McMahon RM 13 Swindler Cove, Harlem River New York Restoration Project – Jane Jackson Booker T Washington MS – Anne Marie Nowak, Virginia Young & Marie Simone; 41 students 6th-8th grade IS143 - Obed Fulcar

RM 14 Inwood Park, Manhattan NY Park Rangers –Bill Schmidt/Nature Center Coordinator-Inwood NYSDEC Region 2 - Betsy Ukeritis The Young Women’s Leadership School, Susan Vincent 25 students – 12th grade RM 18 Yonkers, Habirshaw Park Beczak Environmental Center - Cynthia Fowx (914)377-1900 Saunders Trades & Technical High School - 13 students 10-12th grade RM 19W Alpine, NJ - Alpine Boat Basin Tenafly Nature Center, Deborah Davidson Tenafly Middle School, Tamara Ledley - 11 students – 8th grade RM19E Hudson River Museum – Steve Ruff 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers NY 10701 Museum School 25 – 10 students – 5th grade RM 25 Piermont Pier Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Margie Turrin Pearl River High School environmental science classes - Tom Mullane Clarkstown South Marine Science Class – Brandon Spencer Croton Harmon High School – Donna Light-Donovan – 82 students 11-

12th grade RM 41 Steamboat Dock Park, Verplanck

Mahopac High School AP Env. Science class - Bob Connick - 6 students 11-12th grade

RM 59 Kowawese Unique Area, New Windsor Ann Szigethy & Pam Golben, Museum of the Hudson Highlands Warwick Valley HS – 14 students – senior high school RM 60 Newburgh Landing Project Wet - Cindy Simpson Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center - Kerri Brady Horizons on Hudson School – Alice Kish – 60 students 3rd-5th grades RM 61 Long Dock, Beacon Scenic Hudson - Joe Kiernan; Tom Lake, Hudson River Estuary Program naturalist South Avenue School, Beacon - Linda Houlihan (School cancelled due to

rain)

RM 76 Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie: - Mid- Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie - Lisa DiMarzo Sheafe Road Elementary School – Jon Sokol – 22 students 4th grade RM 85 Norrie Point, Staatsburgh

HR National Estuarine Research Reserve - Jean Valla McAvoy & Laurie Fila

Haviland Middle School, Hyde Park, NY - 120 students 6th grade - Johanna Tomik

RM 87 Esopus Meadows Environmental Center, Ulster Park, NY Hudson River Sloop Clearwater – Eli Schloss Poughkeepsie Day School - Rebecca Santner K-2nd (cancelled due to

weather) RM 97 Ulster Landing Park, Town of Ulster Ulster Co. Env. Management Council - Miriam Strouse Scenic Hudson - Susan Hereth Ulster County Youth Conservation Corps John F. Kennedy Elementary School 5th graders (Kingston) and Kingston

High School students - 12 high school and 23 elementary RM 103 Saugerties Lighthouse

Woodstock Day School - 31 grade 5-7 students - Karen Laube & Mary Henry

Melissa Henneman, Hudson River Estuary Program RM 115 Cohotate Preserve, Athens

Greene Co. Soil & Water Conservation District - Liz LoGiudice Doug Reed - Hudson Basin River Watch

Environmental Science class from Coxsackie Athens High School (cancelled due to weather)

RM 123 Coxsackie Dee Strnisa, DEC Five Rivers Anne Hunter Coxsackie Middle School (didn’t come due to weather) RM 124 Nutten Hook, Stuyvesant Columbia Land Conservancy - Fran Martino

2 classes & environmental club from Hudson High School - Jim McDarby; 4th grade class from Mary Dardess Elementary School, Chatham (Schools

cancelled due to weather) RM 127 Stuyvesant Landing: Columbia County Soil & Water Conservation - Leanna O-Grady

The Alternative Learning Center (home schoolers) 4 students 7-12 yrs. RM 153 Green Island, Troy NY Children’s Museum of Science and Technology - Sarah Smith, Tiffany

Fleming Heatly School – Diane Mulch- 10 students/10th graders