Randall’s Island Park’s Repository
The data repository for Randall’s Island Park serves as a resource hub – a compilation of the ecological and environmental monitoring and assessments performed on the island by the Alliance’s staff and community collaborators. Through this repository, researchers, students and community members can access detailed data sets, reports, and analyses, facilitating further research questions, informed decision-making, and strategic planning.
Randall’s Island Park Alliance staff, volunteers, and members of the public participate in monthly fish and crustacean monitoring at two locations on Randall’s Island.
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Once a month, from May-October, RIPA staff and volunteer monitor 4 meadow and garden sites to document pollinator presence and abundance along with pollinator flowering plant interactions to understand management impact.
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Volunteers on Randall’s Island assist staff in collecting, identifying, and counting types of ocean litter.
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The Natural Areas Department monitor monarchs in partnership with Monarch Watch and Project Monarch Health to help researchers understand migration patterns and the spread of OE, a monarch parasite.
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Partnering with Billion Oyster Project, RIPA staff and volunteers surveyed the Little Hell Gate Salt Marsh to identify the presence and abundance of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica).
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