🐠Cool fish alert!🐠
We've had 2 recent inshore lizardfish catches- just a little over a week apart.
While their native range reaches up to Massachusetts, it has been a rarer find in the Hudson River due to preferences for warmer and saltier coastal waters.
Swipe to learn more about this small but mighty ambush predator!
News Archive
- 2026 Water Quality Sampling Season Begins
- Fish Migration Season
- New Waterfront Installation: CoastSnap
- 2026 American Eel Migration Project Sampling Update
- CURB Wraps Up the 3rd Year of the EELS Team Internship Program
- CURB Launches New Microplastics Monitoring and Capture Project
- Yonkers Students Intern at CURB as part of the 2023 Blue Team
- CURB Wants to Hear Your Nature Story!
- Hudson River Animal of the Month: Blue Crab
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We always love hearing about our past students doing amazing things! Congrats to Brieanna Boateng, Blue Team ‘23 and Blue Team Mentor ‘24, for completing The Institute Discovering Environmental Scientists (TIDES) program! Stationed at Bard College, she researched the Saw Kill, a tributary to the Hudson in Northern Dutchess County. Her research group, the Fish Team, studied how diversity varies between different habitats in the Downstream Tidal Mouth using traditional rod and reel and an electrofishing backpack. She even got to sail on the Sloop Clearwater!
“My favorite part was definitely electrofishing! We documented 17 species including killifish, shiners, bass, carp, and eels.”, said Brieanna, adding, “Developing our team research question was challenging, but my past experiences at CURB prepared me well for the internship.”
The TIDES program is sponsored by our friends at the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve and the @nysdec Hudson River Estuary Program.
Congratulations to our summer Blue Team for organizing and planning another successful outreach celebration event!
Approximately 200 community members attended the event which included a detailed presentation summarizing the students’ research and experience during their six weeks at CURB, followed by student led activities across the park. Attendees built rubber bands propellered boats, turned t-shirts into works of art with tie dye, posed with their loved ones at the selfie station, accessorized some nautical themed hair clips and even got a chance to meet some of our turtle species up close at the waterfront! Partner group Groundwork Hudson Valley received community input about heat areas in Yonkers at their station, and local water quality sampler Kevin shared the beauty of oysters and their importance to the Hudson River ecosystem. It was a perfect way to culminate a summer full of learning.
We thank everyone who was able to support our students throughout this summer, including the Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club who took the Blue Team kayaking earlier this week!
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Week 4 of Blue Team is complete! This week our interns participated in a meeting with the Westchester Coalition for Clean Water @wc_clean_water, an exciting first for our program, and asked many insightful questions about Environmental Justice in our community! Cohort A went seining, where they caught many species (including 6 blue crabs). All interns also took a look at our science research poster, providing final feedback! We did some prep work for our exciting oyster restoration project set to take place next Monday (stay tuned to learn and see more)!
Blue Team has also been hard at work taking samples and making materials for the Blue Team Bash on August 8th! Can’t wait to see you all there! Register today, link in bio!
#hudsonriver #blueteam #waterquality
And just like that, we are officially halfway through the 2026 Blue Team internship!
During Week 3, interns went to Sarah Lawrence College’s ecology lab to learn about how molecular biology lab techniques are used in environmental monitoring! Beyond continuing their event planning and taking some more samples, interns also prepared for two very exciting firsts in Blue Team history: participating in a Hudson restoration project and a meeting with the Westchester Coalition for Clean Water in the upcoming weeks! In preparation, they learned about the history of oysters in New York and prepared some questions to bring to the meeting!
Thanks again to @slc_ecologylab for having us and teaching our interns!
(Don’t forget to RSVP to Blue Team’s Hudson River Bash: Exploring Waterway Wonders!! 𓆝 𓆟 𓆝)
Blue Team Week 2 is on the books!!
This week, interns completed their second set of samples, did some community building by identifying fish and began planning our community event day!
Our event is titled “Blue Team’s Hudson River Bash: Exploring Waterway Wonders!” and will take place on Saturday, August 8th from 12-3pm!!
Be sure to RSVP (link is on our Linktree)! We hope to see you all there! 𓆝 𓆟 𓆝
SLC Blue Team is back for 2026! During their first week, interns focused on learning about the waste water infrastructure in Yonkers and environmental justice. They also became familiar with the water sample collection and processing techniques to assess the quantity of fecal indicator bacteria, enterococcus, in our waters.
🌊Stay up to date for more news on Blue Team's research and our community event taking place on Saturday August 8th from 12p-3p! 🐟
#hudsonriver #environmentaleducation #waterquality
It’s almost here! Our annual Riverfront Festival is in 3 days! 🐟
From 11-4 PM stop by 35 Alexander Street for a community celebration of our wonderful waterfront. Plus, special for this year is the @riverkeeper’s launch of the fish migration flotilla which kicks off the start of the day. ⛵️
Thanks to our other event partners: @yonkerskayaking @hudsonriverriders @beczakonthehudsonriver
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We had QUITE the catch of the day this morning with our interns from @eastchesterufsd ! 🐟
Measuring about 27 inches, this is not only one of the biggest fish we’ve ever caught, but also a first time species find for us- a freshwater drum!!
#hudsonriver #seining #fishing #fish #communityscience
Come find us down by the riverside this Saturday, May 30 as we celebrate World Fish Migration Day!
We're inviting the public to help us collect important fish data by seining the river. Gear up and learn to use our fish net or hang at the shoreline to identify what we pull in. We hope to see you there!
Meet at the beach in Habirshaw Park,
5/30 from 10 AM- 12- PM
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