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 New York Sea Grant and other institutions and organizations.
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
Spotlight: Faculty Research
Holly Porter-Morgan: Neighborhood Flood Mapping Initiative Dr. Porter-Morgan’s current research focuses on stormwater management and resilience. Extreme weather events have become more frequent across the
SRIJB Team Co-Publishes Paper on FloodNet Project
A team representing the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay (SRIJB), the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, New York University, the New York City
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
