Science & Research

My name is Jhulian Stanley Gutierrez, I am Fire Island National Seashore’s 2020 Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) intern. My internship is a partnership program with the National Park Service, Environment for the Americas, and Hispanic Access Foundation. Day 6 of my internship, I had met National Park Service Deputy Director David Vela and Superintendent Alexcy Romero.

In the summer of 2015, Sarah Gulick traveled to Fire Island National Seashore and parts of Gateway National Recreation Area to see some early traces of recovery and signs of resilience following Hurricane Sandy and to document NPS’s efforts to mitigate future storm impacts. Her mission: to create a a pair of short films that document the work of researchers who are contributing to federal projects launched in response to Hurricane Sandy.

With so much diversity and value in underwater habitats, it’s no wonder the National Park Service undertook a multi-park effort to map the relatively uncharted shallow waters in and around coastal national parks in the Northeast. Learn more and see what lies beneath.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.

The Outside Science film crew spent some time at Fire Island National Seashore with Student Conservation Association (SCA) interns tracking bats and fighting pine beetles.

This episode takes us to Fire Island National Seashore where interns work to protect nesting shorebirds and horseshoe crabs.

Protecting coastal treasures like lighthouses, forts, and statues requires an understanding of the precise location of these resources. New elevation markers will help the National Park Service continue to protect coastal parks threatened by flooding and sea level rise.

Jim Lynch works for the National Park Service Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network as a coastal biologist and spends much of his time traveling to national parks along the Atlantic Coast to monitor salt marshes. These sensitive but important tidal wetlands have been vanishing in the last four decades due to pressure from development and sea level rise.

Dr. Cheryl Hapke, a coastal geologist from the United States Geological Survey, has studied the shorelines of Fire Island for nearly two decades. Dr. Hapke’s work helps the National Park Service understand how the shape and position of barrier islands and barrier island features change over time.

A marsh resiliency model was developed to help managers protect salt marshes at coastal parks in the Northeast.