Russell Jacobs

Jun 28, 2024 | waterways.substack.com | Russell Jacobs

Hi everyone,This week’s Landlubber is later than I had planned, but it has lots of cool photos and, if you read to the end, an eight second video that will blow your mind. Thanks for reading Landlubber! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Some announcements up top: I’m leading a bird walk in Marine Park for NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon) on July 13th at 10:30. If you come, you’ll get to see saltmarsh/estuary habitat at its peak, when there’s life everywhere.

May 8, 2024 | urbanomnibus.net | Russell Jacobs |Francesca Johanson |Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez

The consequences of the climate crisis for New York City’s future can be hard to assimilate. Rising tides and strengthened storms threaten our archipelago inside and out; keeping the population safe and dry requires physical adaptation to the city on a monumental scale. New York may not be Venice or Vanuatu, but our dozens of islands float in an era of uncertainty.

Feb 4, 2024 | slate.com | Russell Jacobs

Science Last fall, I found myself on a whale watching tour of the waters around New York City. The trip, which employed guides from Gotham Whale and was hosted by the storied nonprofit Riverkeeper, could be seen as a kind of victory lap for the clean water org. After half a century of advocacy—a period that saw the watchdog group win David vs.

Jul 16, 2023 | slate.com | Russell Jacobs

Welcome to our hot sargassum summer.

Jun 1, 2023 | coastalnewstoday.com | Russell Jacobs

This past April, scientists started to understand that this year’s “blob” was a lot larger than it should be. It was even moving rapidly through the Atlantic Ocean. The blob they were watching was the sargassum bloom—an annual event that sends mats of light-brown algae floating across the Caribbean, through the Gulf of Mexico, and eventually, in some cases, up the East Coast of the United States.