Kris McShane coordinates American Shad and Striped Bass sampling for the Hudson River Estuary Program. This is hard work. A crew of ten men and women manually haul in a five hundred foot seine net that may hold hundreds of large fish.

Kris and his crew depend on the NOAA tide tables to set their sampling schedule.They can't sample when the water is low because the mud would fill their net and make it very difficult to haul in. Unfortunately, the water level predictions presented in the tide tables are frequently inaccurate and Kris' crew wastes time waiting for the tide.

June 19, 2009 New HRECOS Website is launched
May 4, 2009 Alene Onion is hired as the new HRECOS coordinator.
January 15, 2009 Alan Blumberg with the Stevens Institute utilized HRECOS data to assist Flight 1549 rescuers.
January 20, 2008 Poughkeepsie Journal Article on HRECOS