What a Week at Revere Beach

    This week the team and I went to Revere Beach. When you see this beach you can tell they take care of it. The water is super clear and the sand is nice an white. The plan was to fish and connect this week to climate resilience. Now I was not expecting to see fish or catch anything but then my eyes see a shadow. The shadow was a fish shape and I knew what it was. There was striper ten feet in front of me. Then one became three and more. I caught three fish and had a great week. Now what does fishing have to do with Climate resilience? Well fish and marine life can tell you a lot of the health of the environment. If you see a lot of fish and sea plants then the area is healthy. Meaning the climate change has not affected the area greatly. Which is really good to see and gives me hope that Revere Beach is taking care of the environment.

    Speaking of climate resilience, our guest speaker's video was a great example of that. When seeing how climate change can negatively affect Boston it was alarming. The water levels would have risen so much that most of Boston would be covered in water. The most affected would be the harbor areas because they are next to the water. This could not only affect us humans but also the marine life too. When you change the "world" that fish and other animals live in it can be hard for them to adapt. Now imagine that more water is added to the city. We might see striper swimming in the streets. That sounds great for fishermen but for other people not so much. We need to take a stand and try to improve our world. It might be to late to fix global warming but we can try to help the world become cleaner the it was years ago.

I can't wait to see what is our next adventure! 

Ruben 

Pretty day

Finally caught one 

First Week: The Animals We Find and a Great Time

The first week back at Save the harbor was anything but regular. It felt as if I was working an event rather than a site. Reason being, the pandemic makes us work under a new protocol.

Unfortunately this summer I’m not allowed to see all my coworkers. I wish I could meet the new JPAs, and. Say Hi to people I haven’t seen since last summer. This summer we work virtually and physically. On Monday, we had a meeting preparing for the week. Each meeting we learn new things, regarding photography, and how to be careful during the pandemic and implement the lessons into work. I am able to see everyone, although it’s virtual.

Piping plover :D

From Tuesday to Thursday my small group that I will be working with for the summer we’re working down at Revere beach. It was fun going back on the MBTA after so many months and seeing that it’s actually empty for once. At the site we were preparing a lesson for future programming in which the students learn about the food web system. Specifically in a marine habitat. We captured photos, and caught animals, plants and other organisms to complete this project. On the second day, we caught a striper! This is what we anticipated to be the hardest to find because of its identity as a predator in the food web; therefore there is a smaller probability of finding a predator because they are the smallest population in the food web. We saw endangered birds such as the piping plover living in a sanctioned habitat on the beach. I missed seeing animals and seeing the smile on kids faces for seeing an animal for the first time. However I was the kid in this situation. I have never seen such beautiful small white birds swiftly coursing the beach.The animals living in the ocean ecosystem

The following days were easy considering how many animals we saw and caught already. We were at the beach enjoying the breeze as we searched, and fished off the shore. Our group began to connect because they all are such a cool group of people. Albert and I enjoyed new food places such as Kelley’s by Revere Beach and all the food was amazing.

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The preparation this week was fun and easy! Luckily, the following weeks will be the the same!

One thing I began to miss was all access, especially the start of our programming. After we have all the kids and camp groups in the pavilion, David gives a speech.  David runs all access and he usually gives a speech about the Boston harbor cleanup.  Before the Boston Harbor used to be very dirty. Trash used to be disposed on the harbor and that it was not healthy for the animals living in the ocean ecosystem. The people of Boston sued the city in support of cleaning the harbor. The tanks on Deer Island were built, there was a big dig: a tunnel under the water, and more.  The people of Boston made sure the city took into account how dirty the harbor was and made sure something happened about it.  Now we have some of the cleanest urban beaches in the country. I’ll make sure to give David’s speech anytime someone asks this summer.

Until Next time,
Qalid Hassan :)