The Community Flood Watch Project from SRIatJB & New York Sea Grant brings coastal NYC residents & community groups together to report, share, & identify how floods & rising sea levels will impact local resources & community investments. Learn more at open workshops on 2/23 & 2/25 ⬇️

New resource! “Modern Medicine in Brooklyn” 👇

"The legacy is that Caribbean culture and community and commerce continues to thrive in NYC, that it's sustainable for generations to come." Brooklyn College Anthropology Department Brooklyn College Alumni Engagement + I AM CaribBeing™ founder Shelley Vidia Worrell '02 is Spectrum News NY1's New Yorker of the Week! ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

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Register for NYSG and SRIatJB's virtual workshops on the NYC Community Flood Watch Project - 2/23 (2 pm) and 2/25 (6:30 pm); Connect w/ other "flood watchers" (who post photos, details at facebook.com/groups/floodwa…); Sign up at srijb.org/jbfloodwatch NOAA NOAA Sea Grant NOAA Research

⭐ Freedom’s Journal (1827–1829) was the 1st U.S. newspaper owned & operated by African Americans. Published in New York City & aimed at the region’s Black population, it was an important abolitionist voice in the time of slavery. #BlackHistoryMonth

Latest on our collaboration with CUSP at NYU Tandon CUNY ASRC and Center for the Study of Brooklyn to make flooding data useful for communities, government and researchers. Data Project May Drive Policy for Hyperlocal Flooding in NYC govtech.com/public-safety/…

Our friends Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy (JBRPC) are looking for a project planner. They are a fantastic organization doing great work.

Are you a student doing research in Jamaica Bay? You are eligible for the Polgar Fellowship and we’d love to hear how we can support your application. Deadline is March 29. CUNY Research SoMAS at SBU GC Sciences

Wednesday!

Join us March 11 for the first of three programs by Center for Brooklyn History exploring Jewish Brooklyn. From Gefilte Fish to Kibbeh, food is at the heart of Jewish culture so to start, let's eat! Register today. bklynlib.org/3uMLSOf

What can a gravesite tell us about a person's life? What more can we do to uncover their personhood? With @GreenWoodHF, we're going deep into the historical record to reexamine one woman's life. NEXT WEEK: eventbrite.com/e/137691977411

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Join BC Black Faculty and Staff + Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition tomorrow (Tuesday 2/22) to learn more about the current struggle to build a memorial for the African Burial Ground at the center of Flatbush. Zoom in from anywhere: tinyurl.com/HonorOurAncest…

Join us on March 10 to hear Whit Harris, Mateo Askaripour, & Bernard Ferguson critically engage the histories and futures of the Black diaspora along Brooklyn’s waterfront.

Thursday! In person for the Brooklyn College community

Tomorrow @ the Brooklyn College library!

It was wonderful to be in person with Mateo Askaripour @whitharris and b at Brooklyn College yesterday, celebrating their work in UNY’s new issue, Byways: Three Artists on Brooklyn’s Black Waterfront. The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities Center for the Study of Brooklyn