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Judith Weis returns to The Naturalist to continue her discussion on salt marshes. This week she touches on history, pollution, species invasion and restoration of the marshes.
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The Physical Alteration Of Salt Marches (13:06)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, salt marshes, Salt Marshes: A Natural And Unnatural History, interactions between people and salt marshes, Judith is a professor of marine biology at Rutgers, people used to view salt marshes as useless, we have lost many acres of salt marshes over the years which have become towns, Jamaica Bay, a house on stilts, salt marsh with straight channel creeks is not normal, normal creeks curve, mosquito, they breed on the marsh surface in pools of water, barricade, killifish, Jones Beach, bird sanctuary, Vanderbilt Museum, farming, salt hay, cowlicks, Dutch, Manhattan, physical alterations, Tekserve, Judith Weis,Pollution In Salt Marshes (8:00)
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agricultural chemicals, pesticides, mosquito control, these chemicals kill a lot of other things, they also affect development, industrial chemicals, Newark Bay, industry polluting water, blue fish, striped bass, they end up with the greatest concentration of these chemicals in their bodies, PCBs, blue crabs are banned in Northern New Jersey because of contamination, blue crabs, Polychlorinated biphenyl, excess nutrients, sewage, treatment plants, fertilizers, human waste, algae bloom, the algae die and sink to the bottom to decay, the process of decaying uses up oxygen, dead zones, chemical pollution,Invasive Species & Salt Marsh Restoration (16:18)
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invasive species, they are not native to an area and cause trouble, phragmites, a new variety has been causing trouble, native species is a part of the high marsh, spartina, China, California, crabs, mussels, green crab, arrived a couple of hundred years ago, Maine, clams, restoration, No Net Loss of Wetlands, sea level rise, mars can migrate inland without roads and towns, restoration has a long way to go before it becomes a real science, trial and error, remediation, cleaning up pollution, Hackensack Meadowlands, HMDC, garbage dump regulation, development and environmental protection, clean water act, there has been a huge difference in the past 30 years, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, eco tours, kayaks, Lindhurst, boardwalks, nature tours, Hackensack River Keeper,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
