Quik House

The Quik House is a prefabricated kit house designed by Adam Kalkin from recycled shipping containers. It has three bedrooms and two and one-half baths in its 2,000 square foot plan. The shell assembles within one day at your site, you will have a fully enclosed building. From start to finish, it should take no longer than three months to complete your house

Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

European Space Agency: Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

Plumb Beach on the Move

A study conducted by New York City Audubon of the ecological changes at Plumb Beach.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Gateway National Recreation Area provides abundant recreational and learning opportunities, from swimming, boating and fishing to team sports, bicycling and nature study. The nation's oldest operating lighthouse, forts that defended America, and sites that trace aviation’s early days tell significant stories. The living world can be explored in a wildlife refuge, holly forest, ocean dunes and coastal uplands.

Rockaway Inlet

NOAA Nautical Chart: Atlantic Coast #12350 "Jamaica Bay & Rockaway Inlet": Rockaway Inlet, the entrance to Jamaica Bay, is between Rockaway Point on the southeast side and Manhattan Beach and Barren Island on the north side. The inlet is obstructed by a shifting sandbar. A jetty, marked near the outer end by a light, extends south from Rockaway Point. The entrance channel extends westward of the jetty and is marked by lighted and unlighted buoys. The channel has depths of about 15 feet or more at mid-channel. A shoal with depths of less than 1 foot and marked by breakers is west of the entrance channel.