Connecticut Sea Grant will lead a three-year, multi-state initiative to create the economic and business framework needed to spur the fledgling domestic kelp industry into the mainstream.
Author: Judy Benson
2021 undergraduate research fellowship announced
The Connecticut Sea Grant Undergraduate Research Fellowship seeks to broaden participation of underrepresented/underserved students in marine and coastal professions by providing early career experience, training and mentorship to the next generation of scientists, decision makers and marine industry professionals.
25th season of Coastal Perspective Lectures announced
The 25th season of the Coastal Perspectives Lectures will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 with a presentation by author and historian Skip Finley titled, “A Voyage of Discovery with Skip Finley.”
Our readers talk to us about the new Wrack Lines issue
Readers of the Fall-Winter 2020-21 issue of Wrack Lines are sending comments to the new “Talk to Us” column. Check out what they’re saying and send your own responses to: judy.benson@uconn.edu. We’d love to hear from you! “We just received the latest Wrack Lines and wanted to let you know much my wife and I […]
Call for Preliminary Proposals for 2022-2024 Omnibus Funding Cycle
The Connecticut Sea Grant College Program (CTSG) has issued its call for preliminary proposals for the 2022-2024 Omnibus Funding Cycle for the funding period of Feb. 1, 2022 to Jan. 31, 2024.
Marsh migration project at Dodge Paddock explored in article
The two-year project at Dodge Paddock Beal Preserve in Stonington Borough is the subject of an article published in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of Extension, titled, “Moving with the Marsh: Encouraging Property Owner Adaptation to Marsh Migration.”
Aquaculture rapid response: challenges & opportunities
Learn about the COVID-19 rapid response that Sea Grant programs throughout the North Atlantic region, including CT Sea Grant, have provided to shellfish aquaculture businesses in these two documents.
CTSG, Avalonia project looks to prepare forest for the future
Battered by coastal storms and infestations of wooly adelgids, gypsy moth, winter moth and emerald ash borer, sections of the 200-acre Hoffman Evergreen Preserve will now serve as a living lab and demonstration site for how land managers can help forests adapt to climate change.
Diverse perspectives explored in new issue of Wrack Lines
Learn about bringing more diversity to the sciences, environmental justice, the Shoreline Greenway Trail, a new diversity fellowship and the unique career of Bob Pomeroy with fish and fishermen across the globe in the Fall-Winter 2020-21 issue of Wrack Lines magazine.
Past recipients of CT Sea Grant Arts Support Awards
CTSG-supported artists inspired by flyway, LIS shellfish Arts Support Award recipients to perform 3 concerts in March 2022 arts award program sees highest number of awardees New Haven artist chosen for 2021 CTSG Arts Support Award Discarded fabric, puppets are grist for marine-themed art Plastic pollution is focus of 2019 arts awardee’s work Exhibit […]