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Welcome
to Vortex, the regional catalogue of who is doing what in the
Harbor Estuary.
Multiple federal agencies, from the EPA
and Army Corps, to the
National Marine Fisheries
Service collect data along a spectrum of disciplines from
fish populations and sediment chemistry to bottom topography,
(or bathymetry).
State agencies like NJDEP
and NYDEC
work along with coastal zone management programs and New York
City’s own Department
of Environmental Protection to study, regulate, plan and monitor
thousands of activities affecting, and affected by, these estuarine
areas.
State and City University systems, along with independent state
and private colleges, and institutions by the dozens have scientists,
graduate students and research assistants doing hundreds of studies
and experiments annually. Employing every imaginable avenue, from
satellite imagery and sonar telemetry to undersea robotic devices,
researchers collect immense quantities of data on our environment.
Vortex seeks to identify and catalogue
these efforts, and to make the information available to other
researchers and the public.
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