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Currents Clips

This is a new series of one to two minute video summaries that immerse NYSG's Web site visitors, social media followers and NY Coastlines subscribers into the program's coastal research, extension and education stories.
Lake Ontario Inundation Mapping Tools Now Available from New York Sea Grant

New interactive inundation mapping tools are helping property owners along Lake Ontario and its embayments enhance flooding preparedness.
When Cultivating Oysters, Would High-Tech Food Help?

This NYSG-funded study examines the development of small, local shellfish hatcheries and increasing hatchery production methods for existing hatcheries culturing the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica.
Coastal Residents Wary of Storms and Preparing

In the years following Superstorm Sandy's impact on the tri-state area, the aim of the NOAA Sea Grant’s Coastal Storm Awareness Program was to help better understand through social science how people react to storm warnings and make the decision to stay or to go.
Daughter Donates Dad’s Boat for Safety Education Campaign

The late Robert H. Wood, a WWII veteran and career educator, loved teaching and boating, and, so, his daughter donated a 1967 Evinrude Playmate runabout for NYSG’s award-winning Discover Clean and Safe Boating public education campaign.
New York Sea Grant Provides Resources to Avoid Rip Current Dangers

In addition to Sea Grant's online resources, including a new fact sheet, NOAA National Weather Service provides beachgoers with real-time surf zone forecasts.

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We also provide new content at nyseagrant.org/currents and nyseagrant.org/blog. Via the blog we publish topical entries as well as an occasional "Social Media Review," which features trending stories at both NYSG and our federal partner agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

How Does Sea Grant Benefit You?

For nearly 50 years, New York Sea Grant—one of 33 university-based programs under NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program—has been producing impressive results through its funded research.

"Sea Grant is unique in how it draws upon its Extension program to extend these [research] studies, putting science-based into the hands of a wide variety of coastal stakeholders," says New York Sea Grant's Interim Director Kathy Bunting-Howarth. More >>

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