Snails have been out in full force this week thanks to all of the rain. #snail #rain #spring #shell #nature #naturephotography
Welcome to the Center for the Urban River
Launched June 2013, the Center for the Urban River at Beczak (CURB) is an alliance of Sarah Lawrence College and the Hudson River Valley Environmental Education Institute.
The mission of CURB is to advance environmental knowledge and stewardship by providing high quality K-12 environmental education for the local community, establishing a regional hub for research and monitoring focused on Hudson River estuary and urban watershed issues, and serving as a welcoming open community space for a variety of civic and cultural activities. The Center occupies the former Beczak Environmental Education Center, a well-loved river exploration and interpretative center that has been offering programs for adults and children for over twenty years. Its name honors Joe Beczak, one of the Hudson River enthusiasts who taught children about the Hudson in the 1970s.
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We saw some very strong winds here along the waterfront as this afternoon's thunderstorms moved in! #weather #hudsonriver #thunderstorm #wind #severeweather
A big thanks to the @sarahlawrence Theatre Outreach Program for a great performance of Dear Natalie the Moon is Round! #theatre #sarahlawrence #yonkersartsweekend #springfun
It's a great afternoon for a Sarah Lawrence CAPE program! Here the children are making various creations out of recycled materials. @sarahlawrencecollegeeccart #CAPE #sarahlawrence #CURB #yonkers #crafting
Some pics from this morning's Riverkeeper Sweep, part of our Spring Family Fun Day. Thanks to all of the volunteers who helped clean up our park! @riverkeeper #riverkeepersweep #volunteers #yonkers #parkcleanup #hudsonriver
Thanks to @iacapps for doing volunteer work in our park yesterday! The group did a trash cleanup and repaired our marsh fences that were damaged by the many coastal storms this spring. #volunteering #volunteers #givingback #hudsonriver #yonkers
It was a cold morning for seining training with our new interns Alexa, Alex, and Josh from Scarsdale High School! #hudsonriver #seining #interns #whereisspring
The CURB crew is back in the river today for seining classes with Riverdale Country School and Cedar Place School. This morning we caught 27 juvenile Atlantic silversides with Riverdale, and are gearing up for our second class later on. We'll see what the net brings! #hudsonriver #nature #yonkers #school #spring
Finally a beautiful spring day along the Hudson! #hudsonriver #spring #tappanzeebridge #norain
CURB staff enjoyed this morning's @volunteernynow 38th Annual Volunteer Spirit Awards! Congrats to all of the award recipients on their great volunteer work in the community, and thanks to our friends at Con Edison for the invite! #volspirit18 #volunteering #community
Last night CURB's Jason Muller presented a lecture at Columbia University's Pollution and Water Resources Seminar. The topic was "Exploring the Biodiversity of the Lower Hudson River Through Seining and Eel Data," taking a look at our 13 years of data collected during our seining programs. #hudsonriver #columbiauniversity #sarahlawrence #CURB #research