Ecology of Breaches-Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy created a breach through Fire Island National Seashore. The breach provides an extraordinary opportunity to evaluate ecological responses to inform breach management decisions at Fire Island and to inform future breach management decisions within the the mid-Atlantic region and elsewhere. This project was developed to collect and synthesize information on the components of the Bay-estuary that rapidly respond to the new breach (water quality, plankton, seagrass) and those components that take longer to respond (fish communities).