The New Students Benefit Concert - April 22nd, 2023
Brooklyn-based band The New Students performed an Earth Day benefit concert to benefit FoBB’s mission. Approximately 50 people attended and over $450 was raised.
April 14, 2023
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County (CCESC) Marine Program Tour - April 14th, 2023
FoBB board members Howard Read, Katia Read, Peter Schulte and Thomas Schultz were led on a tour of Cornell Cooperative’s shellfish operations in Southold. The team discussed deploying SOS (Spat-On-Shell) in Bellport Bay with Shellfish Aquaculture Educator Joshua Slaughter and Aquaculture Specialist Greg Rivera. We were given a close look at how SOS is cultivated and utilized, which culminated in FoBB deploying a total of 500,000 juvenile oysters in July and September of this year.
February 2023
“The Environmentalists” Exhibition - February 11th, 2023
In February, The Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society included FoBB in their "Environmentalists" show, representing our mission to restore lost bay bottom habitat through oyster and shellfish restoration. Along with photos documenting our work on Bellport Bay, FoBB exhibited ceramic structures created by interns and students to be used as templates for living seawalls to provide habitat for marine species. The structures were made during a FoBB Fridays workshop.
