Since 2008, the Hudson River Reserve has been successfully monitoring glass eels across various sites along the Hudson River with help from local volunteers. The Hudson River Eel Project is a community science program in which individuals across a wide range of demographics can participate in activities including juvenile eel collection, simple data entry, and transport of these organisms upstream over dams or other obstacles. This two-year science transfer project allowed the Jacques Cousteau Reserve to offer volunteers a research-related monitoring program by transferring best practices for implementing community science efforts from the Hudson River Eel Project. 

A collection of media materials from the project, which includes a poster and graphics, can be found below:

• Project poster: Developed for the NERRS Annual meeting to communicate project findings to the Reserve system and NERRA.
• Eel cycle graphic: Life cycle graphic for education and outreach; to be used by Jacques Cousteau NERR, Hudson River NERR, and other users in promotional materials such as educational displays, brochures, social media posts, and websites.
• Newsletter features: Two features in the Jacques Cousteau newsletter to inform the public about project efforts and potentially attract new volunteers to participate.