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.
The purpose of our study is to assess the ability of plants and soil biota to remediate urban shoreline soils. We are designing a two-year field monitoring study on a 2-acre shoreline site on Randall’s Island.
The recently restored Living Shoreline(LS) meadow of Randall’s Island hosted a EPA funded field study looking at the potential for phytoremediation in urban park lands. Plant and soil were sampled every week from May to September in 2021.
Plant Survivorship
Chlorophyll Fluorescence
Stomatal Conductance
Final Plant Measurement
Brochure
The goal of this project was to determine types of substrates on Randall’s Island, specifically the area around the Little Hell Gate Bridge, that provide habitat for oysters.
Randall’s Island Park staff and interns conducted a non-native invasive species inventory for three of the natural areas on the island. The inventory will help the staff determine the success of invasive species management activities.
Bee populations have been steadily declining, raising serious concerns for the future of their species and associated plants. This project aimed to survey Hymenopteran species and other pollinators to help understand how land managers can promote a healthier pollinator community.
RIPA staff, volunteers, and students monitor an oyster cage installed by Billion Oyster Project to assess eastern oyster growth and survival and observe other marine organisms using oyster shells and oyster cage as habitat.
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