Immediately after landing on Monday, the prince boarded a small boat to learn about the work of the Billion Oyster Project, and his day ended with a wade off the shore of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
to honor companies and projects working on scalable solutions to various environmental challenges, with one of the five total prizes aimed at improving oceans and waterways. Ever since, the prince has been submerged in the issue, but on a Monday engagement in New York Harbor, he made his involvement literal by donning waders and gloves and walking waist-deep in the waters of the East River.
At the end of an afternoon touring the facilities where the Billion Oyster Project works with the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, William suited up to see a reef in action. Along with three others, William waded out to pull several oysters out of a cage installed by the organization at Brooklyn Bridge Park. He returned to shore after collecting a bucketful of oysters and examined them with students afterward.
The prince’s day with the staff and students began soon after he arrived at Newark Airport on a commercial flight. He went directly to New Jersey’s Liberty Harbor, where he braved rainy weather, put on a life jacket, and boarded a small boat withcofounder and executive director of the Brooklyn Oyster Project, a nonprofit restoring oyster reefs to the city’s rivers and waterways.
Malinowski cofounded the project in 2014, after serving as an aquaculture teacher at the Harbor School. BOP collects used shells from restaurants around the city—2 million pounds have been collected so far—and uses them to create structures where oyster larvae can grow. Students from the Harbor School help clean the used shells, which are “cured” outdoors before reuse, and design structures where the larvae can settle.
Upon arriving at the Harbor School’s Marine and Science Technology Center on Governors Island, William went to a hatchery classroom, where a group of 10th graders were growing algae that would eventually be used to feed the larvae. William repeated back the name of the algae species in the tank and said that he had just added a new word to his vocabulary.
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