Student symposium helps nurture budding marine scientists
Posters filled with graphs, charts and images interspersed with text told stories of locally significant marine science topics: impacts of non-point source pollution on local rivers, lobster shell disease, invasive species and microplastics in Long Island Sound and beach cleanups.
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Long Island Sound takes center stage in N.Y., CT classrooms
From the Bronx, Long Island and Westchester County in New York, to Connecticut’s hilly northwest corner and southeastern shoreline, elementary, middle and high schools students have been immersed in learning about Long Island Sound, the estuary that connects the two states.
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East Lyme student-scientists use grant to explore marine ecosystem, wildlife
Fifty-eight student-scientists from Flanders Elementary School’s first grade spent the day investigating the ocean and its wildlife at Rocky Neck State Park in Niantic. Throughout the field trip, students took pictures of the beach on iPads, learned the importance of wetlands protection and viewed ocean wildlife in jars.
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Grant helps raise awareness of water pollution for Torrington students. ‘It all goes to the ocean’
Teachers Jamie Mack and Catherine Haase want their students at Torrington High School to know that what happens in their backyards doesn’t always stay in their backyards. Ground water, aquifers, and waterways here can affect the sea, although the nearest beach on the Sound is some 50 miles away.
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Trumbull High students work to help preserve Long Island Sound
Anna Smith and almost 70 of her classmates are participating in a new project designed to improve ocean literacy and advocate for marine life by helping to preserve the Long Island Sound.
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Making Waves: schools set sail with Long Island Sound Schools project
Learn how Mercy University Professor Meghan Marrero’s childhood love of the sea helped pave the way for the creation of the Long Island Sound Schools network with CT Sea Grant Education Coordinator Diana Payne.
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