On Saturday, February 4, join Angela Andersen as she presents The Bay Island Project. The NJ Bay Islands Initiative is a collaborative effort including 40 agency, governmental, academic, citizens and NGO’s to protect the bay islands of NJ. There are over 160 islands comprising 3000 acres in NJ. Long Beach Township is a founding member of the initiative and received a Community Resilience grant from the National Fish of Wildlife Foundation. Angela will present on the grant project which focuses on The Barnegat Bay /Little Egg Harbor Estuarine system and the 5 identified islands off of township that the team will develop preliminary restoration plans for in partnership with Stockton University, Monmouth University, The Nature Conservancy and the USFW. The team developed a Bay Island Restoration Planner (BIRP) tool which is a data inventory of the islands in the study area. This tool tells the story of how the islands have behaved over the last few decades and will inform how to restore them.  

Angela Andersen is the Sustainability Director for Long Beach Township and the manager for LBT Marine Education Field Station in Holgate.