Natural and Nature-Based Features in New York
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2025)
Jun 20, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
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NYSG is identifying and filling knowledge gaps surrounding natural and nature-based features in New York State to inform and advance resilient shoreline practices.
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Publications: Success Stories
Extension - 2025
May 26, 2025
Jun 23, 2025
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Research
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Included in this annual review are over 40 summaries of select work conducted by our program's extension specialists and funded researchers to develop and provide stakeholder-driven, science-based information, tools, and other resources that support local communities, businesses, and individuals.
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Sharing Knowledge about Natural and Nature-Based Features in New York
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2024)
Aug 12, 2024
Jun 16, 2025
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Identifying Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) knowledge gaps and sharing related research and data informs stakeholders about resilient shoreline practices
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In Media: NYSG Featured in NYSDEC's State of the Ocean 2023 Report
Ocean Action Plan - Press Release
Nov 20, 2023
May 31, 2025
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The report highlights partnerships and achievements from the first five years of the OAP, including enhancing ecological integrity, promoting sustainable growth, adapting to change, and empowering public stewardship.
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In Media: New SG Funding to Shore Up More Statewide Community Engagement in Coastal Resilience
Climate - News
Apr 27, 2023
May 31, 2025
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A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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On Air: Keeping Track of Coastal Flooding Data? There's an App For That
Climate - News
Apr 27, 2023
May 31, 2025
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A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to $8.1 million to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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In Media: Community Engagement a Focus of Sea Grant’s New Statewide Coastal Resilience Funding
Climate - News
Apr 27, 2023
May 31, 2025
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A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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In Media: Community Engagement a Focus of Sea Grant’s Coastal Resilience Funding
Climate - News
Apr 27, 2023
May 31, 2025
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A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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In Media: Stopping the Surge — Patchogue to Try New Way to Stem Shoreline Flooding
Coastal Processes & Hazards - News
Apr 22, 2023
May 31, 2025
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Placing stones along coastlines has proved successful in other parts of New York, such as the Hudson Valley, but Patchogue will be the first such attempt on Long Island, said Kathleen M. Fallon, coastal processes and hazards specialist in the Stony Brook office of nonprofit New York Sea Grant.
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New Sea Grant Funding to Shore Up More Statewide Community Engagement in Coastal Resilience
Climate - News
Mar 20, 2023
May 31, 2025
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A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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NYSG Featured in NYSDEC's 2018-2020 Great Lakes Program Progress Report
New York's Great Lakes - News
Apr 13, 2021
May 31, 2025
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People and communities are benefiting from collaborative projects, including a number of them with Sea Grant, to restore New York's Great Lakes resources
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On YouTube: Peconic Land Trust Presents: The Living Shoreline
Coastal Processes & Hazards - News
Apr 13, 2021
May 31, 2025
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Watch Peconic Land Trust's webinar, moderated by NYSG, from mid-February to hear from experts (Peconic Estuary Partnership; Cornell Cooperative Extension; Peconic Land Trust) telling the story of their successful partnership to secure several local beaches.
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On YouTube: Town Looks to Restore Eroded Shoreline in Lindenhurst
New York Shorelines - News
Dec 26, 2020
May 31, 2025
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A Lindenhurst civic association is teaming up with a scientific organization (as well as NYSG for some advisement) to come up with solutions to the erosion of a small beachfront property, but the property in question is still privately owned.
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In Media: Green v. Gray - Monitoring Different Shoreline Features Along New York’s Coasts
Jamaica Bay / NYC - News
Dec 24, 2020
May 31, 2025
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Partners and a range of stakeholders have developed and piloted a draft statewide monitoring framework to assess the potential of nature-based features to help coastal communities in the face of rising sea levels.
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An Urban Estuary Ready for an Oyster Comeback
Hudson River Estuary / Research - News
Dec 23, 2020
May 31, 2025
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Cornell University researchers investigated an extensive surviving population of eastern oysters recently found in the Hudson/Raritan Estuary. New York City's coastal waters once were the center of a booming oyster fishery, but now we have almost none.
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NYSG's “Currents Clips” Wins 2020 Folio Award for ‘Best Social Media Public Awareness Campaign’
Currents Clips - News
Sep 22, 2020
May 31, 2025
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Launched in mid-2019 as a limited series, this collection of one- to two-minute videos immerses NYSG's subscribers and followers into the program's coastal research, extension and education work.
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New York Coastlines, Spring 2020
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Apr 07, 2020
May 31, 2025
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Check out stories from the spring 2020 issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our latest issue, which was released in mid-July to our e-subscribers. Sign up and we'll send you issues weeks before it's online.
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Piloting a Statewide Framework for Monitoring NY’s Shoreline Features
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2020)
Mar 14, 2020
May 31, 2025
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Natural and nature-based features are included in a statewide framework piloted by NYSG and partners for monitoring the effectiveness of a variety of shoreline management practices
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On YouTube: Living Shorelines - What Are They and Are More NY Communities Embracing Them?
New York Shorelines - News
Nov 22, 2019
Aug 18, 2022
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Living Shorelines include natural features that work to absorb (lessen) some wave action and flooding. They not only protect shorelines, but conserve, create, or restore natural shoreline functions.
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RISE 2019: NYSG Climate and Resiliency Extension, Outreach and Education
Coastal Processes & Hazards - News
Nov 13, 2019
May 31, 2025
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NYSG provides multiple platforms for climate and resilience extension, outreach and education along New York’s marine and Great Lakes coastlines.
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New York Coastlines, Early Summer 2019
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Aug 02, 2019
May 31, 2025
Check out stories from the early summer issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our next issue, slated for release to our subscribers in November.
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In Media: Living shorelines offer hope for state’s coastal communities
New York Shorelines - News
Jun 20, 2019
Dec 23, 2020
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As climate change threatens coastal areas, experts from the New York Sea Grant program are involved in a project to protect the state’s shorelines and the people who live near them.
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May 08, 2019
May 31, 2025
Education News
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This is a new series of one to two minute video summaries that immerse NYSG's Web site visitors, social media followers and NY Coastlines subscribers into the program's coastal research, extension and education stories.
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NYSG Featured in NYSDEC's 2016-2018 Great Lakes Program Progress Report
New York's Great Lakes - News
Apr 02, 2019
Dec 23, 2020
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People and communities are benefiting from collaborative projects, including a number of them with Sea Grant, to restore New York's Great Lakes resources
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New York Coastlines, Late Winter 2019
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Mar 22, 2019
Aug 18, 2022
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In June, NYSG will release the late Spring / early Summer '19 issue of its flagship publication, New York Coastlines. E-subscribers will receive it first, so be sure to sign up ... and, in the meantime, check out our late Winter '19 edition.
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On YouTube: Monitoring New York State’s Natural & Nature-Based Shoreline Features
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2019)
Feb 25, 2019
Jun 19, 2025
Extension News
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NYSG and partners are developing a framework to monitor and assess the function of natural and nature-based shorelines structures.
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Raising Awareness on Nature-Based Shorelines
New York Shorelines - News
Feb 19, 2019
May 23, 2023
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The effort includes exploring the best ways to evaluate the function of wetlands, natural materials such as beach grass plantings, and nature-based features such as living shorelines. It also examines the use of concrete walls, rock revetments, and other manmade structures to provide multiple benefits.
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New York Sea Grant Attends NYC Climate Action Summit
Climate - News
Dec 11, 2018
May 23, 2023
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The Local Climate Action Summit, held in New York City during Climate Week NYC in late September, focused on the challenges and opportunities facing local communities in the Northeastern United States because of climate change.
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New York Coastlines, Late Summer - Early Fall 2018
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Sep 13, 2018
Aug 18, 2022
Education News
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NY Coastlines—NYSG's flagship publication—and its news archive, Currents, highlight news, events and other activities from our coastal program's various research, extension and education endeavors throughout NY's marine and Great Lakes waters.
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New York Shorelines
New York Shorelines - News
Jul 17, 2018
May 31, 2025
An example of a a nature-based shoreline. Credit: NYSDEC.
Measuring Success: Monitoring Natural and Nature-Based Shoreline Features in New York State (2018)
Web Site: www.srijb.org/nys_nnbf
New York Sea Grant (NYSG) is a proud partner for this collaborative two-year initiative, for which the goal is to develop and test a monitoring
framework for a range of shoreline stabilization strategies to better
understand their ability to provide ecological services, mitigate storm
impacts,...
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Publications: Success Stories
Extension - 2017
Mar 06, 2017
Dec 23, 2020
Education News
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Research
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What impacts do Sea Grant have in New York State? New fact sheets show a variety of coastal ecosystem and economic benefits.
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What’s New in Extension?
Publications: New York Coastlines, Spring/Summer 2016
Jun 09, 2016
Dec 23, 2020
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New York Sea Grant's extension program welcomed four new specialists in the last year, two each focusing on the state's Great Lakes and marine waters.
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Nature-Based Shoreline Practices Workshop
Great Lakes Coastal Processes and Erosion - Press Release
Dec 09, 2015
Aug 22, 2020
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Nearly 70 coastal scientists, engineers, planners, managers and agency representatives gathered in Rochester for this all-day workshop.
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Living Shorelines Workshop: Background
Marine Coastal Processes & Facilities / Marinas - News
Dec 16, 2013
Apr 13, 2025
This May 2013 NYSG workshop provided attendees with practical information on the use of living shorelines as an erosion control alternative, focusing on smaller scale projects that have erosion protection as the primary objective.
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Workshop: Living Shorelines for Coastal Erosion Protection in a Changing World
Marine Coastal Processes & Facilities / Marinas - News
Apr 01, 2013
Apr 13, 2025
This May 2013 NYSG workshop provided attendees with practical information on the use of living shorelines as an erosion control alternative, focusing on smaller scale projects that have erosion protection as the primary objective.
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