Education

Community Science

Since 2008, Brooklyn Bridge Park has conducted a variety of monitoring methods to educate learners about our local water bodies, while simultaneously collecting meaningful community science data.

Explore

Join us out at the water’s edge! Our community science programs enable students and the public to be a part of the data collection process and learn a lot along the way!

Seining Demonstrations

Trained staff, volunteers, and partnering scientists use a seine net to conduct an ecological survey of marine organisms in the East River. During our public seines, visitors are invited to join our educators on the beach for fish identification, beach combing, and water quality testing.

No events at this time.

Rod & Reel Fishing Clinics

Learn how to responsibly catch and release some of the East River’s most common species. Guided by our education team, you will learn the basics of rod and reel fishing and get up close and personal with your East River neighbors. Each fish is carefully removed from the line by experts, measured, and released at the end of the program.

No events at this time.

MONITORING PROGRAM PARTNERSHIPS

We are proud site partners of the Billion Oyster Project. Brooklyn Bridge Park serves as an important oyster restoration site for the NY Harbor. Visit the BOP’s website to learn more on how schools and community members can volunteer or be involved in this initiative.

Our staff and teen program also participates in NOAA’s Phytoplankton Monitoring Network and the Ocean Conservancy’s Coastal Cleanup Trash Reporting

The most common fish caught in our seine net is the Atlantic Silverside

The most common marine invertebrate caught in our seine net are comb jellies.

The East River is an estuary habitat- it consists of slightly salty water known as brackish water.

One of the most unique organisms living in the East River is the lined seahorse.