The Journey to One Billion Oysters with One Million New Yorkers

By Pete Malinowski, Executive Director of Billion Oyster Project
"The Journey to One Billion Oysters with One Million New Yorkers": Pete Malinowski still remembers how - in less than a month - the Billion Oyster Project’s first oyster reef initiative transformed a flat and featureless harbor bottom into to a thriving ecosystem swarming with thousands of snails, crabs, blackfish - even striped bass.
Join Pete for an insider’s view of a visionary, ambitious goal to introduce one billion water-filtering, habitat-creating bivalves to New York Harbor, and the involvement of a legion of volunteers, youth, and partners in this groundbreaking urban marine mollusk conservation initiative.
About the Speaker: Pete Malinowski grew up farming oysters with his parents and siblings on the Fishers Island Oyster Farm on Fisher’s Island in the Long Island Sound. His passion for the environment and education led him to the New York Harbor School, where he founded the school’s Aquaculture and Oyster Restoration Programs and spent five years as a teacher. Pete serves as a Co-chair of the Governor's Shellfish Restoration Council and sits on the Mayor's Waterfront Management Advisory Board. Pete spends as much of his free time as possible on the water or in the woods with his three children Adrian, Maxwell and Daisy.