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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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.