Norwalk harbor is setting for final on-the-water workshop

Speakers and guests gather on the deck as Spirit of the Sound approaches the docks at the Maritime Aquarium of Norwalk.
Speakers and guests gather on the deck as Spirit of the Sound approaches the docks at the Maritime Aquarium of Norwalk.

Connecticut Sea Grant hosted the final in a series of four on-the-water workshops celebrating its 30th anniversary on July 26 on Norwalk Harbor. Seven speakers and 24 passengers toured the busy harbor aboard Spirit of the Sound, the Maritime Aquarium of Norwalk’s hybrid electric vessel. Topics covered by the speakers included water quality and testing projects in the local area; commercial aquaculture; seaweed aquaculture; research projects involving GoPro cameras on kelp beds, horseshoe crabs and living shorelines. Sea Grant Director Sylvain De Guise concluded the program with a presentation about the Long Island Sound Blue Plan, a marine spatial plan for the estuary that Sea Grant helped create.

Devon Forest, left, educator at the Maritime Aquarium, points out one of the features in Norwalk harbor to Sacred Heart University Prof. Jennifer Mattei, one of the speakers for the workshop.
Devon Forest, left, educator at the Maritime Aquarium, points out one of the features in Norwalk harbor to Sacred Heart University Prof. Jennifer Mattei, one of the speakers for the workshop.

Photos by Judy Benson / Connecticut Sea Grant

Photos from the previous three workshops can be found at: https://seagrant.uconn.edu/?p=5277https://seagrant.uconn.edu/?p=5251; and https://seagrant.uconn.edu/?p=4066.