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View fullsize JULY SPECIES OF THE MONTH // Northern Lined Seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) Introducing the Northern Lined Seahorse! Did you know... ✨ Seahorses are native to Long Island’s shallow waters with eelgrass or other suitable habitat ✨ Seahorses ar
View fullsize 🔵 Blue is the new G R E E N 🟢 🌀 One year in to our funding and partnership with the South Shore Estuary Reserve Program, and CCE Marine’s Back to the Bays initiative has been continuing to expand our restoration of ‘Blue Carbon&rsqu
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View fullsize JUNE SPECIES OF THE MONTH // Oyster 🦪 As we wrap up June and Oyster month, we hope you enjoyed learning about oysters, spat-on-shell production and oyster reefs 🦪 Now we need YOUR help to continue our restoration efforts! Here is how YOU can gi
View fullsize 📆 SAVE THE DATE!! 📆 🌊 Our 10th Anniversary Beach Bash Celebration + Fundraiser will be Thursday, August 21 from 6-8pm at Tiana Beach Activity Center in Hampton Bays! 🦪 Join us for a night of drinks, bites by @rootedhospitalitygroup and live mu
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View fullsize Join #backtothebays this week for the final Horseshoe Crab Monitoring sessions of the year and Coastal Gardening at a NEW time at Tiana Bayside Facility in Hampton Bays. Register now at https://backtothebays.org/calendar #backtothebays #events #eve
View fullsize Interested in learning more about our Coastal Garden at our Tiana Beach Facility? Read our new blog post by Education + Outreach Assistant Sam Olweck about our garden, how we started, and the native species we plant and attract. Read now at #linkin
View fullsize JUNE SPECIES OF THE MONTH // Oyster 🦪 🦪 Spat-on-shell oyster reefs are an important component of our marine restoration projects. Once we identify a suitable location at one of our Stewardship Sites, we get to work planting these spat-on-shell o
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View fullsize 🎨 BUOYS FOR THE BAYS: CALL FOR ART + ARTISTS! Create your own Buoy to be included in our Buoys for the Bays Exhibit opening July 17 at @borghesevineyards 📣 CALL FOR ARTISTS! Pick up your buoy at Borghese Vineyard now through July 10, create your
View fullsize Join #backtothebays this week for a week of ArtSea in Hampton Bays! Get creative with shell bit mosaic with the return of Tiana Tuesdays or paint with acrylic on canvas on Thursday at @thestationbarhamptons Register now at https://backtothebays.org
View fullsize JUNE SPECIES OF THE MONTH // Oyster 🦪 🦪 At Back to the Bays, the oyster is one of our key species we focus on for shellfish restoration. But HOW do we restore this important species at our Stewardship Sites across the East End? 1️⃣ It all begin
View fullsize ☀️ Still looking for some fun for Still looking for some fun for your kiddos this summer? Select spots remain for our Summer Camps at Tiana Bayside in Hampton Bays! 🐚 Join us for ArtSea (8-10 year olds), July 28 – August 1 from 9am –
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View fullsize ✨ Watch these buoys transform into ART! ✨ Join us for our Buoy Painting Parties this Friday, June 13 and/or Friday, July 11 at @borghesevineyard to create your own buoy to be included with our Buoys for the Bays Exhibit opening on July 17! 🍷 $20 a
View fullsize Join #backtothebays this week for THREE opportunities for horseshoe crab monitoring + a Stewardship Session in Southold + our first Buoy Painting Party on Friday at @borghesevineyard in preparation for our Buoys for the Bays Exhibit + Auction! Regis
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View fullsize JUNE SPECIES OF THE MONTH // Eastern Oyster 🦪 Oysters are filter feeders and help keep our bays clean as they feed on tiny algae. A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of seawater per day! 🦪 Oysters are born as swimming larvae, then sett

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View fullsize Eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows provide essential habitat for many species of finfish and shellfish during part or all stages of life. Due to the structure and protection they provide, eelgrass meadows are the most biodiverse marine habitats in our
View fullsize Who's ready to Shellabrate?! The annual event we've been waiting for all year is almost here, and we can't wait to see everyone. Wristbands are selling fast so grab yours today, and better yet consider coming in as a Sponsor to get special access t
View fullsize Today's #fieldworkfriday mission: retrieve temperature loggers ✔️ collect shell stringers ✔️ check on summer oyster reef plantings ✔️ be safe, have fun, and don't flood your waders ✔️ Successful end of season outing to wrap things up at our Quog
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View fullsize Our North Fork Polar Bear x Back to the Bays collaboration made it possible for over 100 eelgrass “tortillas” to be assembled at our Marine Meadows workshop last weekend. Throughout next month these tortillas (each woven with 10 eelgrass
View fullsize Did you know that the ancestor of modern eelgrass was a land plant that moved back into the ocean? Stay tuned to learn more about eelgrass and all things Blue Carbon. #Eelgrass #BlueCarbon #Evolution #MarineBiology
View fullsize Join us for a hands-on ArtSea experience where you’ll learn about the importance of blue carbon ecosystems and create your own beautiful cyanotype prints to take home. This event will take place at the scenic Tiana Beach Bayside Facility on Thu
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View fullsize Join CCE Marine Program’s Educator Ella Gatfield to learn about Blue Carbon, followed by seed collection in the marsh on October 17 from 3:30 - 5 PM at our Tiana Bayside Facility 🌊 By helping Back to the Bays collect marsh grass seed, you are
View fullsize Two Seafood Cuisine Trails are being developed on LI to drive business and tourism to restaurants and markets elevating locally-harvested fish and shellfish. If you are interested in being considered for the trail, complete the survey at www.tinyurl.
View fullsize Free ArtSea Event Halloween Inspired Shell Decorating October 10th 4-5:30 for ages 7-10.
View fullsize Yesterday was a gorgeous day on the water seeding 1 million hard clams and 20,000 bay scallops with the @southamptontowntrustees for our Town Shellfish Enhancement Program. . . . #shellfish #aquaculture #hardclams #bayscallops #harvest #southampton
View fullsize In the South Shore Estuary Reserve (SSER), water temperatures exceed 25 C for more than 30 days in all of the meadows, save those located near the ocean inlets. Most of the meadows in the SSER do not show the stress that the Peconic eelgrass meadows
View fullsize CCE Marine will be tabling and have a touch-tank at the Viva la Sound Environmental Festival tomorrow! This event is hosted by City Island Oyster Reef on City Island. We are promoting our collaboration with CIOR as well as the amazing work we do here
View fullsize On Monday/Wednesday/Friday we do FLUPSYs. 1 row out of 6 - if only we could actually clean all those barrels this fast! “FLUPSY” stands for Floating Upweller System. In each FLUPSY there is a series of barrels holding thousands of clams
View fullsize Join our ArtSea program director Carolyn Munaco for one (or two) nights of create and sip fun! Next Tuesday she will be guiding participants in making a seahorse mosaic at Greenport Harbor Brewery, and discussing all things northern lined seahorse (H
View fullsize Our Back to the Bays team welcomed college interns Evelyn Helinski and Sam Olweck for the summer. They were nothing short of wonderful - engaged and instrumental in our marine research and restoration, in addition to helping us deliver related public