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
Alpine, NJ - Alpine Boat Basin
Tenafly Nature Center, Deborah Davidson
Tenafly Middle School, Tamara Ledley - 11 students – 8th grade
RM 19W
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 1112th 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