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Raising Awareness on Nature-Based Shorelines

The effort includes exploring the best ways to evaluate the function of wetlands, natural materials such as beach grass plantings, and nature-based features such as living shorelines. It also examines the use of concrete walls, rock revetments, and other manmade structures to provide multiple benefits.
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.
Rebecca L. Shuford Named Director of New York Sea Grant

Becky is a New York native, originally from Brooklyn, and has a life-long history with and love for NY’s coastal ecosystems and communities.
How Sea Grant Benefits You In 2019

For nearly 50 years, New York Sea Grant has worked with coastal residents, communities, businesses, teachers and residents on problems and opportunities specific activities within the land and water interface.
Publications: Success Stories

The new profiles provide a summary of how New York Sea Grant addressed a variety of marine and Great Lakes concerns and opportunities in 2018.
Hurricanes: Forecasting, Communication, Response & Preparedness

NYSG's efforts are increasing community awareness and preparedness for storms like 2012's Sandy and the 1938 Hurricane, both of which destroyed thousands of homes and resulted in loss of life and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

Are You A E-News Subscriber?

Sign up for NYSG's flagship e-pub, New York Coastlines / Currents, to keep tabs on our coastal science research, extension and education endeavors throughout NY's marine and Great Lakes waters: nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines.

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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