Jennifer Smith
Smith is a Long Island reporter who primarily covers the environment.
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Jennifer Smith 7/16/11 Going to great lengths to study LI bats
Scientists who track wildlife end up in some tricky spots -- flailing in mud, swarmed ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 5/9/11 North Shore preserve gets tender care
In spring, carpeted with tiny violets, Hope Goddard Iselin Preserve in Upper Brookville has a ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 12/10/10 Finding clues to disease menacing LI bats
Many of the recent samples come from littler brown bats, which are the most common ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 10/5/10 In the field: On the trail of LI's wild turkeys
The skies were still dark as a team of turkey hunters pulled into Brookhaven National ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 7/29/10 Monitoring marshes to help them survive
They strode out into the marsh on a steamy summer day, two women lugging a ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 7/3/10 In the field: Amazing horseshoe crabs
The living fossils of the wetlands arrive on Long Island to spawn. ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 6/8/10 Hatching a plan to save plovers
Human hands build a wire enclosure to shield the federally protected bird from predators and ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 3/30/10 Looking for signs of endangered salamanders
The recent downpours flooded local roads and snarled traffic, but they also spurred an amphibious ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 3/2/10 In the Field: Peconic ramp to give alewives a lift
takes Jennifer Smith In the Field logo.For a month or so this winter, Grangebel Park ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 11/5/09 NYIT studying electric cars' future on LI
Green stripes mark off a stretch of parking lot at the New York Institute of ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 10/1/09 Volunteers collect data on number of raptors on LI
Bird-watcher Ken Thompson scanned the skies over Fire Island Lighthouse just east of Robert Moses ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 3/7/09 IN THE FIELD: Mapping future of LI's shores
On a recent winter evening, about 30 scientists, town ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 11/1/08 HURRICANE HISTORY: Getting to the core of erosion
Secrets lie beneath the wetlands on the bay side of Lido ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 10/4/08 A REMNANT OF PRAIRIE: Nurturing a precious preserve
On a patch of prairie at Nassau Community College, ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 8/2/08 RESTORING THEIR NUMBERS: Plover chick adds hope to effort
Binoculars clamped to his face, Joseph Janssen scanned the ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 7/5/08 IN THE FIELD: Brown tide, South Shore scourge
The sun broke through the mist and turned an overcast ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 9/13/05 KATRINA
NEW ORLEANS - Dank water still maroons homes and businesses ... Read more »
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Other Columnists 9/10/05 REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS - Wiping down a hotel bar in rubber gloves ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 9/9/05 For these rescuers, it's a pet project
NEW ORLEANS ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 9/8/05 'Vibrant' block now eerily quiet
NEW ORLEANS - Each canvas Randy Leo Frechette loaded into ... Read more »
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Jennifer Smith 9/6/05 REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS - Driving northwest on Interstate 10 yesterday ... Read more »
