NEWS AND UPDATES
NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program Reauthorized Until 2014
President George W. Bush signed NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2008, which reauthorizes the Sea Grant Program from 2009-2014.
"Breaking the Waves"
Fall '08 Coastlines features NYSG research on breakwater design and storm surge forecasting, teacher training on Lake Ontario and the estuarine environments of the NY/ NJ Harbor, and new NYS commitments towards addressing marine animal diseases and invasive species.
International Fisheries Representative Visits Great Lakes
An international fisheries representative recently visited New York’s Great Lakes region to study open water trawling techniques and vessel design.
Robert Kent Appointed as NYSG’s Interim Associate Director
NYSG begins 2009 fresh, with a new Director, James W. Ammerman (who came on-board in mid-October 2008) and an Interim Associate Director, Robert Kent, effective January 3, 2009.
New Stewardship Plan for
Nissequogue River is Called to Action
A coalition of elected officials, business, civic and environmental organizations that created the 36-page Nissequogue River Stewardship Action Plan gathered at Sunken Meadow State Park on a late-November afternoon to officially release the report and celebrate its first action, already underway.
Because of its significant ecological and recreational values, the Nissequogue River and its 40 square-mile watershed was named one of 33 “Stewardship Areas” by the Long Island Sound Stewardship Initiative in 2005.
“The Nissequogue watershed is crucial to the health of Long Island Sound and it is worth protecting,” said New York State Assemblyman Michael J. Fitzpatrick at the event.
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