Japan has been holding precision walking competitions since 1966. Mesmerizing. pic.twitter.com/FsXrrS3P1D
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Former Director of the CDC
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An exciting find at low tide!
In late September, while conducting a wild oyster survey in the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, we encountered thousands of young-of-the-year oysters! These glistening bivalves—attached to rocks, bulkheads, and bridges—were only visible at very low tides. Unlike the oysters spawned in our hatchery and strategically placed at our oyster reefs, this discovery suggests that oyster larvae in NY Harbor found a hard surface to land and a protected spot to grow on their own!
Since we started restoring oysters—12 years ago at the Harbor School—we have only seen three oyster sets this dense! 2011, 2018, and now, 2020. Even more encouraging? Each of these recruitment events was denser than the one before. To me, this is a clear sign that we are trending in the right direction.
While we can't directly attribute these oyster offspring to the 47 million oysters that Billion Oyster Project has restored to date, we do know that the more oysters we restore, and the better water quality becomes, the more likely we are to see wild oyster populations rebound without human intervention!
Thanks for reading, and being part of the Billion Oyster Project community!
Pete Malinowski
Executive Director
Tom Daniels, Ph.D., the director of the Louis Calder Center at Fordham University, took alumni, students, parents, and friends, for a look behind the scenes at what goes on at the biological field station.
If you’re doing your part and social distancing from inside your home, you may start to notice small details of your house or apartment you hadn’t thought about before—like why your older home doesn’t have a closet, or how white subway tile became so ubiquitous. You may also be wondering if there’s anything you can do—aside from the usual cleaning and disinfecting process—to help keep your home as virus-free as possible during the coronavirus outbreak.
Whether you realize it or not, a number of the design features in our homes today originated, or were popularized, because of previous infectious disease outbreaks, like the 1918 flu pandemic, tuberculosis, and dysentery. There is a very long, very interesting history of the intersection of health, architecture, and design going back to ancient times, but we’re going to skip ahead to the late 19th and early 20th centuries to focus on architectural and design features you could potentially find in your home today. Here are a few examples of home design elements tied to attempts to prevent or slow the spread of infectious disease.
