Due to disruptions related to the COVID-19 virus, the deadline for the new Connecticut Sea Grant undergraduate research fellowship opportunity for summer 2020 has been extended to March 31.
Author: Judy Benson
Notice to CT aquaculture businesses about disaster loans
The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering designated states and territories low-interest federal disaster loans for working capital to small businesses suffering substantial economic injury as a result of the Coronavirus.
Rep. Courtney heads effort to restore Sea Grant funding
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney is once again leading the charge in the House of Representatives to ensure strong support for the Sea Grant Program in the Fiscal Year 2021 Budget.
Workshop on managed retreat rescheduled
“Managed Retreat in the Age of Climate Change,” a workshop that will be hosted by Connecticut Sea Grant and the UConn Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR), has been rescheduled to Nov. 13 due to the COVID-19 virus.
2019 Annual Report highlights work of CT Sea Grant
With lively photos, quotes from stakeholders and easy-to-read summaries, the new annual report offers an inviting way to find out what CT Sea Grant has been up to in the 2019 fiscal year.
Symposium looks to shape bright future for seaweed farming
Create a trade association to spearhead marketing. Develop solutions and strategies to extend the shelf life of seaweed. Recognize that seaweed isn’t like other seafood — it’s competing for space on the dinner plate with vegetables, Ideas like these were in abundance at the National Seaweed Symposium.
‘Birds and Bees’ landscaping symposium canceled
The March 26 symposium, “The Birds and The Bees: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You,” sponsored by the Rockfall Foundation and Connecticut Sea Grant, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 virus.
1st food safety guide for seaweed may help product advance
Connecticut-grown kelp is a little like an unopened packet of summer squash seeds left on a shelf after planting season has passed. While its potential to become a mainstay of restaurant and home-cooked meals has been promoted in recent years by growers, the media, and others, the reality hasn’t caught up. But a newly published guide could help change that.
Hearing airs ideas on Blue Plan’s strengths, shortcomings
Sound science, an open and transparent process, and a treasure trove of facts, figures and maps available to everyone — those are some of the attributes speakers ascribed to the Long Island Sound Blue Plan at a public hearing before the Environment Committee of the State Legislature on Feb. 21.
Lecture explores art, science of plastics in the environment
Photographer Elizabeth Ellenwood and UConn Marine Sciences Prof. J. Evan Ward will offer different and complementary perspectives on the proliferation of plastics in the marine environment at a Feb. 25 talk at the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut.