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The Inlet That Eats Beaches: How Robert Moses Causeway’s Alteration of Captree Inlet Is Starving the Western End of Jones Beach Island
ByPawli Paola Meyer August 13, 2025April 12, 2026

Robert Moses didn’t just build a road to the beach — he rewired the sediment circulatory system of an entire barrier island chain. The western end of Jones Beach is still paying for it.

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The Wrack Line as Library: What Jones Beach’s Tide-Deposited Debris Reveals About the Health of the Western Atlantic
ByPawli Paola Meyer March 25, 2025April 12, 2026

The wrack line at Jones Beach isn’t litter — it’s data. Marine scientists are decoding what tide-deposited debris reveals about Gulf Stream dynamics, coastal food webs, and the Atlantic’s ecological future.

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