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NYSG's latest e-newsletter, New York Coastlines, has come ashore. Check out the late Summer - early Fall '18 edition, which features stories on severe storms, student fellowships, community-based small grant projects in NY's Great Lakes region and much more.
Stream-Road Crossing Markers: In Recognition of Great Lakes Small Grants Projects

The purpose of the 13 projects that have already come to fruition purpose is to help Great Lakes coastal communities enhance their resiliency to events like severe storms and protect water quality.
Before a Severe Storm Hits, Learning to Communicate about the Risks

“Is Storm Surge Scary?” an article describing research results, has been published in the September 2018 issue of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Climate Change – Nitrogen – Salt Marsh Puzzle

In her recent paper, published in Ecosphere, written with Anne Liberti and Stephen Baines, and funded in part by NYSG, Mary Alldred and her team studied factors of salt marsh health, in particular salinity—the amount of salt dissolved in the water—as well as nitrogen content.
Sea Grant Spotlights What You Can Do to Help Long Island Sound

In its second year, LISS's marine debris campaign, LISS’s second focused on encouraging Long Island Sound residents to “Break the Single-Use Plastic Habit” by bringing their reusable bags and bottles to the beach.
Helen Domske receives IAGLR’s Vallentyne Award, Among Others, For Her Excellence in Education

Domske’s nearly 40 years of research and outreach are exemplary. The NYSG Coastal Education Specialist has interacted on a highly effective level with a wide variety of audiences.

Job Opportunity: NYSG Director

NYSG Director Apply>>
Deadline: November 2, 2018 11:59 pm

New York Sea Grant is searching for an innovative and collaborative leader to provide and execute a compelling vision for high-quality and high-impact research, education and extension for those who live, work and play along New York’s coast – from the Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario) and rivers (Niagara and St., Lawrence) to the Hudson and from the Long Island Sound to the Atlantic Ocean.

The position, located at Stony Brook University, will be responsible for maintaining and developing strong relationships with multiple constituencies including: universities; academic scientists; the National Sea Grant College Program/NOAA and other federal agencies; Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant regional networks and other regional entities; state agencies; elected officials at all levels of government and local businesses; NGOs and citizen groups.

Are You A E-News Subscriber?

To keep tabs on all of NYSG's coastal science news, check out our quarterly e-produces its flagship publication, New York Coastlines / Currents. Sign up at www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines.

We also provide new content at www.nyseagrant.org/currents and www.nyseagrant.org/blog. In addition to topical entries, we publish an occasional "Social Media Review," which features trending stories at both New York Sea Grant and our federal partner agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

All of our e-content highlights the program's various research, extension and education endeavors throughout New York's marine and Great Lakes waters.

How Does Sea Grant Benefit You?

For nearly 50 years, New York Sea Grant—one of 33 university-based programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration'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 NYSG Interim Director Kathy Bunting-Howarth.

For more on "What Sea Grant Does For You" see NYSG's Spring 2018 NY Coastlines e-newsletter. More >>

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