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Our speakers will explain how oysters are grown locally through aquaculture techniques before being consumed in restaurants and oyster bars, and then how the waste shells are recovered from restaurants and utilized to create wild oyster habitat in Long Island’s coastal bays.
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Please reserve tickets here: https://www.jonesbeachenc.org/events/recovering-oyster-shells-dec-04
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Learn more about our speakers!
Maureen Dunn - Water Quality Scientist, Seatuck Environmental Association
Our speaker, Maureen Dunn, is a Water Quality Scientist at Seatuck Environmental Association, specializing in the assessment and remediation of aquatic habitats for local wildlife. She is also the Director of Seatuck’s Half Shells for Habitat, oyster shell recovery program. Before joining the staff at Seatuck, Maureen was employed for19 years as an Oceanographic Associate in the Environmental Sciences Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory where she examined biological-physical interactions in the marine environment.
Prior to that she performed research on nitrogen fixing microorganisms in the Ecology Department at Stony Brook University.
She sits on the Islip Town Environmental Council and the South Shore Estuary Reserves’s Technical Advisory Board. Maureen has a Masters degree in Marine Environmental Science from Stony Brook University.
Emma Forbes- Aquaculture Specialist, New York Sea Grant
In her position as New York Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Specialist, Emma Forbes works with the aquaculture industry across the state, from Long Island to the Great Lakes. Through her work she is developing an extension program for aquaculture in New York state designed to support a sustainable and successful aquaculture industry.
Stephen Naham - Conservation Biologist, Town of Hempstead Department of Conservation and Waterways
Stephen Naham has worked for the Town of Hempstead Department of Conservation and Waterways for 13 Years. As a conservation biologist, his responsibilities have included water quality monitoring and the restoration of shellfish within Hempstead Bay. Stephen is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Town's Shellfish Hatchery as well as overseeing the implementation of recently awarded grants to expand the Town's shellfish program.
