New institute’s focus: preserving Brooklyn’s untamed beachfront
Brooklyn College to host research on Jamaica Bay
Plans for a new Science and Resilience Institute for Jamaica Bay were announced on Monday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell.
Jamaica Bay, which contains numerous marshy islands, borders on several Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods. In Brooklyn, it borders on Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Spring Creek and Mill Basin; as well as Floyd Bennett Field, which is part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
The institute, which will be headed by the City University of New York, will promote understanding of urban ecosystems and their adjacent communities through an intensive research program focused on the restoration of the bay itself.