The Fall-Winter 2025-2026 issue of Wrack Lines magazine invites readers to take a fresh look at the estuary that is the signature natural feature for our state. As the Long Island Sound Partnership celebrates 40 years, articles in the magazine explore plans to keep the momentum going, some of its special places, and how public perceptions have changed.
Author: Judy Benson
Sustainable & Resilient Communities 2025 workshop Dec. 4-5
The Long Island Sound Sustainable and Resilient Communities Team is excited to announce that for our 2025 Annual Workshop we are holding a series of free virtual sessions over two days Dec. 4-5.
Over $900K awarded to support resilience planning in 14 LIS communities
Fourteen coastal communities in the Long Island Sound region have been awarded $909,121 in planning support to advance resilience-focused projects through the second round of the Long Island Sound Resilience Planning Support program.
Registration open for Foundations of Shellfish Farming 2026
Foundations of Shellfish Farming is an in-person training course for new and prospective farmers and those who simply seek to learn more about aquaculture practices and techniques. It will be offered on Tuesday evenings from Jan. 20 to April 7, 2026 at UConn Avery Point.
When it comes to safety at sea, ‘you’ve got to practice it’
Pavel Ivanov has spent many hours harvesting surf clams and ocean quahogs aboard the F/V Sea Watcher II out of New Bedford, Mass., but had never practiced getting into an immersion survival suit or boarding a life raft before coming to UConn Avery Point for a sea safety workshop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.