Learn about what our Back to the Bays Quogue Jr. Ambassadors have been up to this summer. Lead Ambassadors, Teagan and Oggie, share their experience.

Funded by and in partnership with the South Shore Estuary Reserve Program, CCE Marine has been able to continue restoring “Blue Carbon” habitats, like eelgrass and marsh grass. Learn about how Blue Carbon habitats help mitigate climate change.

In partnership with Kidd Squid Brewing Co. we held a Seahorse Hotel workshop in Sag Harbor. These structures will be deployed in village waters to provide additional habitat for our local seahorse species.

Our Quogue Junior Ambassadors came out to help us deploy the first round of summer 2025 spat-on-shell oysters in our Quogue Oyster Reef (established summer 2024).

Kim and Kate head out to monitor our Quogue Oyster Reef, collect scientific data, and clean the spat-on-shell oysters growing in our restoration raft. It may have been a rainy day for our dedicated staff, but not for the oysters. The reef is absolutely thriving!

Kim Manzo, Seahorse + Eelgrass specialist, reflects on the launch of our new Seahorse Hotel initiative, providing stable habitat structure in the absence of the eelgrass seahorses depend on.

Checking on last year’s Sag Harbor oyster reef planting off Steinbeck Park, and bolstering the reef with another 100K spat-on-shell oysters!

Installing Oyster Restoration Raft in the waters of our Quogue Stewardship Site. Spat-on-shell oysters will improve water quality as they filter feed and grow, and eventually be planted in Quogue Village waters to bolster our newly restored oyster reef!

Our Back to the Bays team and CCE experts were joined by 2 VIP donors and the press, for our annual bay scallop seeding in Sag Harbor Shoals eelgrass sanctuary.

Read our 2024 Back to the Bays Impact Report for a full review of the our 2024 projects and progress.

Back to the Bays is thrilled to share the success of our recent art and awareness event, This is Seaweed, hosted at Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton. The opening reception on July 19th was a remarkable evening, with a tremendous turnout and an incredible show of support for our Back to the Bays Seaweed Initiative.

Thanks to funding by East Hampton’s Community Preservation Fund, CCE Marine Program has been working in many waterbodies within East Hampton to identify where the highest levels of groundwater nutrients enter the water, with the goal of mitigating algae blooms and impoving water quality.

With spring’s arrival, Back to the Bays team members and volunteers gathered to make SEAd bombs to encourage biodiversity on Long Island. Join us this Earth Day, on April 22, to make and launch SEAd bombs, learn about Blue Carbon, garden, and explore the marsh with our habitat specialists!

CCE Marine’s Aquaculture team members attended the Northeast Aquaculture Conference and Expo (NACE) and the Milford Aquaculture Seminar (MAS) in Rhode Island.