Check out these time-lapse videos depicting the onset (and subsequent dissipation) of #hypoxia in western Long Island Sound! These visualizations were developed using dissolved oxygen measurements taken by IEC during weekly #waterquality surveys in summer 2022. Discrete (individual) dissolved oxygen measurement were interpolated using GIS to estimate dissolved oxygen in areas surrounding the discrete measurements. The dissolved oxygen maps from each weekly survey were then collated into these time-lapse videos.

It was a landmark day for IEC on Monday, October 24th, as we held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new laboratory and office headquarters, located at BioBAT, on the former Brooklyn Army Terminal complex on the Brooklyn Waterfront.

BioBAT, Inc. (www.biobat.nyc) and the Interstate Environmental Commission seek proposals from qualified general contractors to build and fit-out 2,800 square feet of BSL-2 laboratory and office space.  BioBAT, as landlord, and IEC, as tenant, are negotiating a lease on the second floor of BioBAT in Building A at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.

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On Tuesday, June 30th, IEC resumed monitoring surveys in Far Western Long Island Sound, after a two-month hiatus due to COVID-19. These surveys monitor dissolved oxygen, as well as parameters that may impact dissolved oxygen at 22 stations in support of the Long Island Sound Water Quality Monitoring Program.  IEC performs monitoring surveys weekly during the critical summer season, when hypoxia is most prevalent. Weekly surveys will continue through mid-September.

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Thanks to the partnership of the Interstate Environmental Commission (IEC) and other partner agencies and organizations, a coordinated volunteer pathogen monitoring effort in the shared marine waters of the estuary and the Interstate Environmental District (IED) is now underway.  The combination of IEC’s laboratory space, QA/QC support oversight, and field equipment and the work of the Freshkills Park Alliance 

IEC and CTDEEP are pleased to release the 2018 Long Island Sound Hypoxia Season Review.

The report focuses on CT DEEP’s and IEC’s 2018 in situ monitoring parameters and includes:

• Estimates of areal extent,

  

On May 31st, 2019, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo nominated Philip M. DeGaetano and Jeffrey A. Myers for appointment as Commissioners of the Interstate Environmental Commission. The New York State Senate confirmed their nomination on June 20th, 2019.

On May 23rd, 2019, IEC began its Coordinated Volunteer Pathogen Monitoring season. ​

On May 16th 2019, IEC began its seasonal embayment monitoring in Long Island Sound. For the third consecutive year, IEC is performing monitoring in Little Neck Bay and Manhasset Bay in support of the Unified Water Study, which is funded and coordinated by Save the Sound/Connecticut Fund for the Environment. From May through October 2019, IEC will be performing monitoring and sampling in these priority embayments twice a month.