Contact: 

Nate Drag, NYSG Great Lakes Literacy Specialist, E: nwd4@cornell.edu, P: 716-645-3610 

Watertown, NY, July 15, 2022 - New York Sea Grant is offering professional development training for teachers.

Great Lakes literacy specialist Nate Drag says Sea Grant is offering workshops called “Teach the Teacher.”

Watch the video for his interview on 7 News This Morning.

Workshops will be on July 25 at SUNY Oswego’s Rice Creek Field Station and on July 26 at Robert Moses State Park in Massena.

Both workshops are from 1-3:30 p.m.

You can find out more at www.nyseagrant.org/gleee. You can also call 315-312-3042 or email the Sea Grant Buffalo Office SGBuffal@cornell.edu.

If you would like access to the NY Sea Grant educational resources, go to www.nyseagrant.org/gleee or www.nyseagrant.org/cyeducation. There's also a direct link to "Great Lakes Curriculum".

First-run segments featuring Sea Grant on WWNY TV 7, a Watertown-based CBS-affiliate, often appear during one of the highest rated TV blocks in the "wake-up hours," the 6:30-7 am stretch. These interviews potentially reach approximately 10,000 viewers in New York's Jefferson and Northern Oswego Counties.

More Info: New York Sea Grant

New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.

Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.

Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.

The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Oswego and the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University in Long Island, Brooklyn College and Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC and Kingston in the Hudson Valley.

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly.