Free food, a fiddle jam, special guests, environmentally themed crafts and other activities.

Classes will meet from 6 to 9 p.m. April 23, 25, 30 and May 2, plus a field trip, exploring sustainable gardening for clean waters. This year's theme is the lawn. Advanced Master Gardener credits available.

“Ocean Plastics Pollution from Sources to Solutions”

By Dr. Kara Lavender Law, Sea Education Association
Dr. Kara Lavender Law is a Research Professor at Sea Education Association (Woods Hole, MA), studying the sources, distribution, behavior and fate of plastic debris in the ocean. Trained as a physical oceanographer, Dr. Law has more than 12 months of sea time on oceanographic and sailing research vessels, including in the eastern North Pacific and western North Atlantic Oceans where plastic debris accumulates in regions dubbed, “garbage patches”. Dr. Law’s current research interests focus on the sources of plastic to the marine environment, understanding how ocean physics determines the distribution of plastic and other marine debris, and the degradation and ultimate fate of different plastic materials in the ocean. Efforts to quantify the size of the problem and its impacts, as well as a toolbox of potential solutions, will be discussed. She is co-chair of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group FLOTSAM (Floating Litter and its Oceanic TranSport Analysis and Modelling), and serves as the co-principal investigator of the Marine Debris Working Group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). Dr. Law holds a PhD in physical oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a BS in mathematics from Duke University.

Three-day training course May 14-16 for seafood industry members so they can meet training requirements for FDA regulations.

Presentation and opportunity for public to comment and ask questions about the draft Long Island Sound Blue Plan. More information at: https://seagrant.uconn.edu/?p=4942

Advanced training course for seafood industry members so they can meet training requirements for FDA regulations.