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🌱 Join us on Saturday, June 6 from 10am - 1pm for our Reef Raisers + Meadow Makers Open House at the Suffolk County Mari...
05/29/2026

🌱 Join us on Saturday, June 6 from 10am - 1pm for our Reef Raisers + Meadow Makers Open House at the Suffolk County Marine Education + Learning Center in Southold!

✨ Celebrate the culmination of our inaugural year of CCE Marine’s Reef Raisers + Meadow Makers Program - an integrated multi-unit curriculum engaging local students in restoring oyster reefs and coastal habitats, through hands-on stewardship in their own classrooms.

🎨 Featuring marine inspired artwork by local schools including Peconic Community School, Southold High School, Mattituck-Cutchogue High School, and Riverhead's Pulaski St School.

Register now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reef-raisers-meadow-makers-open-house-tickets-1985953664872?aff=oddtdtcreator and learn more about all the work that Back to the Bays and does in our communities!

🌀 Join us this Friday, May 29 at 1pm at Tiana Bayside in Hampton Bays for a very special Stewardship Session: Seahorse S...
05/27/2026

🌀 Join us this Friday, May 29 at 1pm at Tiana Bayside in Hampton Bays for a very special Stewardship Session: Seahorse Survey!

🌊 Learn about the life cycles + behaviors of seahorses from our Seahorse Expert and Marine Educator Kim Manzo, and then work together as a group to sein for seahorses in the eelgrass meadows off Tiana Bayside at low tide (around 2pm).

Register now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stewardship-session-seahorse-survey-at-tiana-bayside-tickets-1985086323631?aff=oddtdtcreator

$25 per person for this exclusive experience. Stewards, use your code for complimentary admission!

Found along the East Coast of the US from Maine to Florida, Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs spend the winter months in deeper o...
05/15/2026

Found along the East Coast of the US from Maine to Florida, Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs spend the winter months in deeper ocean waters.

In the spring, they migrate back into bays and estuaries to reproduce. Following the highest high tides, created by the gravitational pull of the Full and New Moons, they aggregate on shore by the 1000s to lay their eggs, buried in the sand.

Last night kicked off our first Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Session of the season! Join us tomorrow, Saturday, May 16, and Monday, May 18, at Tiana Bayside for our next sessions.

Become a Citizen Scientist and help us count and tag local horseshoe crabs coming to shore at night to lay their eggs!

Sign up now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/horseshoe-crab-monitoring-at-tiana-bayside-registration-1987339107769?aff=oddtdtcreator

🦪 RESTORATIVE OYSTER REEF 🦪 ☀️ In the summer of 2025, we were joined by a dozen eager volunteers at our Tiana Bayside Fa...
05/09/2026

🦪 RESTORATIVE OYSTER REEF 🦪

☀️ In the summer of 2025, we were joined by a dozen eager volunteers at our Tiana Bayside Facility who helped us deploy over 13,000 spat-on-shell oysters in our marine sanctuary designated by the Southampton Town Trustees.

🗓️ This marked the 4th year of reef restoration efforts at our Tiana Bayside Sanctuary – in total, we have now placed more than 200,000 spat-on-shell oysters, set on on over 100 cubic feet of recycled shell material at this site!

🌱 Annual monitoring shows that our reef clusters are thriving, creating exemplary habitat, and supporting the growth of diverse macroalgae species, which help oxygenate the water.

🌱 Blue Carbon refers to the carbon dioxide captured and stored by oceans and coastal ecosystems, such as seagrass meadow...
05/08/2026

🌱 Blue Carbon refers to the carbon dioxide captured and stored by oceans and coastal ecosystems, such as seagrass meadows and salt marshes.

🌀 These Blue Carbon Ecosystems not only provide essential habitat for marine species and prevent coastal erosion, they also play a crucial role in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby mitigating climate change.

🌱 Eelgrass restoration is a major part of Back to the Bays work to help increase blue carbon on the East End.

Funded by and in partnership with the South Shore Estuary Reserve Program.

🌷Have you ever wanted to tour a shellfish hatchery? Learn about marine species? Touch a horseshoe crab?📌 Join us on Satu...
05/07/2026

🌷Have you ever wanted to tour a shellfish hatchery? Learn about marine species? Touch a horseshoe crab?

📌 Join us on Saturday, June 6 from 10am - 1pm at at Cedar Beach in Southold for a special Reef Raisers + Meadow Makers Open House!

🦪 Enjoy guided hatchery tours, explore our touch tank room, view our student art + science exhibit, learn about our Field Guide, search our facility on a self-guided scavenger hunt and more!

Register now at link in bio!

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