Founded to bring a new model of collaboration to critical environmental challenges, the Science and Resilience Institute brings together community members, researchers, scientists, policy experts and others in the interest of building resilience and sustainability within the Jamaica Bay watershed and beyond.
The Institute is a partnership among the National Park Service, the City of New York, and the City University of New York (CUNY), and coordinates with other institutions and organizations including New York Sea Grant, Columbia University, Cornell University, Rutgers University, Stony Brook University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Our mission is to produce integrated knowledge that increases biodiversity, well-being, and adaptive capacity in coastal communities and waters surrounding Jamaica Bay and New York City. The Institute is hosted and supported by Brooklyn College and Kingsborough Community College working closely with other CUNY colleges, centers and institutes.
WHAT WE DO
Jamaica Bay
Working with the communities around Jamaica Bay and elsewhere, we collect on-the-ground information about flooding and share strategies for safeguarding homes and community.
Flooding
We develop, support, and engage in programs and projects that facilitate communities ability to report local flooding, share experiences, access resources related to flooding, and communicate their neighborhood’s needs and visions to city leaders in NYC coastal communities.
Nature Based Solutions
We connect diverse end-users in NYC and NYS with relevant expertise about natural and nature based features as multi-beneficial, more resilient alternatives to traditional shoreline armoring.
RECENT NEWS
SRIJB adds PhD student Georgie Efegenia Humphries to the team
The Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay is expanding again to meet the growing challenges the estuary faces in a changing climate. SRIJB would
SRIJB Welcomes Polly Pierone & Véronëque Ignace
As NYC faces growing threats from sea level rise, the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay is expanding its FloodNet team. FloodNet is a
SRIJB Welcomes Dr. Jonathan Hallemeier
The Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay is thrilled to be hosting Dr. Jonathan Hallemeier, a visiting scholar at Brooklyn College who is an