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.
Every month from May-October, RIPA staff and volunteers visit 3 sites on Randall’s Island to conduct insect pollinator counts.
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RIPA staff grew five hybrid brassica varieties alongside adjacent open-pollinated brassica varieties, developed in partnership with Dr. Phillip Griffiths from Cornell CALS, on Randall’s Island Urban Farm. All ten varieties were harvested and prepared for the public to provide feedback on taste, texture, and overall quality. The results of this study will help farmers evaluate which varieties to grow in the future.
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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 participates in multiple projects that pertain to monarchs including tagging to researchers understand migration patterns and sampling monarch abdominal scales to understand the spread of a monarch parasite.
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RIPA staff, in partnership with Dr. Ingwell from Purdue University, established the abundance of Squash Vine Borers on the squash crop at Randall's Island Urban Farm. The objective of this study was to understand the impact of the pest on a variety of squash crops based on abundance of adult moths and to explore the ability to manage the pest with a scented trap.
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Randall’s Island Park Alliance staff and volunteers participate in bimonthly waterbird monitoring at ten locations on Randall’s Island with a focus on herons and other wading birds.
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