Governance
What is New York Sea Grant?
Mar 16, 2025
May 31, 2025
New York Sea Grant's governance
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NYSG's Solidarity Statement
NYSG News
Jul 14, 2020
Aug 11, 2020
NYSG is an organization that is deeply rooted in the diversity and complexity of coastal communities, partners, and constituencies across New York State.
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How Sea Grant Benefits You in 2020
Research, Extension, Education - News
Apr 05, 2020
May 31, 2025
Under examination is nearly two dozen impacts made by New York Sea Grant's specialists and funded researchers this past year to use science in order to improve decisions made by a variety of stakeholders.
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In Media: Rebecca L. Shuford Named Director of New York Sea Grant
General - Press Release
Nov 20, 2019
Nov 20, 2019
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.
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New York Coastlines, Early Summer 2019
Publications - Articles / Web Extras
Aug 02, 2019
May 31, 2025
Check out stories from the early summer issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our next issue, slated for release to our subscribers in November.
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Rebecca L. Shuford Named Director of New York Sea Grant
General - Press Release
Jun 11, 2019
Jul 15, 2020
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.
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On YouTube: How Sea Grant Benefits You In 2019
NYSG News
Feb 27, 2019
Nov 14, 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.
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New York Coastlines, Early Winter 2018
Publications - Articles / Web Extras
Dec 19, 2018
Aug 18, 2022
NYSG's latest e-newsletter, New York Coastlines, has come ashore. Check out the Winter '18 edition, which features our latest fellowship as well as stories on coastal tourism, flood resiliency, stewardship, climate challenges and more ...
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New York Coastlines, Late Summer - Early Fall 2018
Publications - Articles / Web Extras
Sep 13, 2018
Aug 18, 2022
NY Coastlines—NYSG's flagship publication—and its news archive, Currents, highlight news, events and other activities from our coastal program's various research, extension and education endeavors throughout NY's marine and Great Lakes waters.
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New York Sea Grant Board Appoints Kathy Bunting-Howarth as Interim NYSG Director
Press Release
Jul 19, 2018
Nov 14, 2019
Bunting-Howarth, who began this new role in early July, also functions as the Associate Director of New York Sea Grant and Assistant Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
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New York Coastlines, Spring 2018
Publications - Articles / Web Extras
May 11, 2018
Aug 18, 2022
NY Coastlines—NYSG's flagship publication—and its news archive, Currents, highlight news, events and other activities from our coastal program's various research, extension and education endeavors throughout NY's marine and Great Lakes waters.
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Congressman Lee Zeldin Awarded for Steadfast Support of National Sea Grant
General - News
Apr 17, 2018
Nov 14, 2019
Published for Stony Brook University's E-news Site, Happenings
Stony Brook, March 16, 2018 - New York’s U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin has received the National Sea Grant Award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant Program for his continued support of this national coastal science association. New York Sea Grant Director and SBU Professor Bill Wise presented the award to him in Washington, DC, on March 7 along with SGA President Jim Hurley...
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Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Letter from NYSG's Director - April 2018
Apr 17, 2018
Apr 17, 2018
Sea Grant does work in every coastal Congressional district in the country, funding needed research on priority coastal problems and issues and then putting the results of this research out there for a wide variety of coastal stakeholders to use.
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New York Coastlines, Fall 2017
Publications - Articles / Web Extras
Oct 23, 2017
Nov 14, 2019
Features include: How Does Sea Grant Benefit You? ... Surveying Lake Ontario Basin communities about springtime flooding ... Are you prepared for the next hurricane or severe storm? ... Also Upcoming Events and other NYSG research, extension and education stories.
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From the Director
Publications: New York Coastlines, Spring/Summer 2016
Jun 09, 2016
Nov 14, 2019
On the shores of Long Island Sound. Photo: Long Island Sound Study
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it!”
Yogi Berra as life coach or organizational management guru? Well no, not really. But, this alleged Yogi-ism does remind me that it’s the strategic planning season again at New York Sea Grant. Every four years, we take a step back to look at what we have been doing, assess the constellation of current and looming coastal issues facing New York, ma...
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Making the Grade: Biennial Report to U.S. Congress Details 'The State of Sea Grant 2014'
National Sea Grant - News
Dec 18, 2014
Apr 13, 2021
In the last two years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Sea Grant College Programs across the country have created or sustained over 17,500 jobs and 6,500 businesses, trained 1,050 coastal communities on hazard resiliency, supported nearly 1,670 undergraduate and graduate students to develop a diverse, highly qualified workforce.
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Sea Grant Communications Network Devise Best Management Practices for Effective Use of Social Media
WWWhat's Trending - News
Dec 18, 2014
Nov 14, 2019
NYSG's Web Content Manager Paul C. Focazio moderated and presented at the Sea Grant Week sessions on "The Effective Use of Social Media,"
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WWWhat's Trending: Web Site Relaunches, NOAA TweetAlerts, Other Social Media Milestones
News
Dec 16, 2013
Nov 14, 2019
NYSG and National Sea Grant College Program both offer new online looks and NOAA unveiled TweetAlerts, reached more social media milestones - all 2013's second and third quarters.
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SBU SoMAS, NY Sea Grant Honor Retiring State Senator, a Leader in New York on Marine Resource Issues
General - News
Aug 12, 2013
Aug 02, 2020
At the event, NYSG Associate Director Cornelia Shlenk addressed Senator Owen Johnson, saying, "Clearly marine issues and their importance to New York have been a high priority for you."
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WWWhat's Trending: Currents, NYSG’s E-Newsletter, Spotlights Summer
New York Coastlines, Summer 2013
Aug 10, 2013
Nov 14, 2019
NYSG's E-Currents will close out Summer 2013 with a variety of "What-We-Did-During-One-Of-Our-Most-Active-Season-Yet" stories.
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WWWhat's Trending: Social Media “Week In Review”
New York Coastlines, Summer 2013
Aug 10, 2013
Nov 14, 2019
Find NYSG on Facebook and Twitter, where we thank our new followers and 're-tweet' partners at the end of every week and provide visitors with a "social media wrap-up" of news you may have missed from New York Sea Grant that week.
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From the Director
Publications: New York Coastlines, Summer 2013
Aug 09, 2013
Sep 18, 2018
New York Sea Grant's Director discusses transitions in his recent 'From The Director' note - from his post to other Sea Grant staffers and even a Sea Grant-supportive legislator.
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Why Donate to New York Sea Grant
News
May 20, 2013
Aug 05, 2020
As less and less of our funds come from the federal government, state and local funding is becoming paramount to New York Sea Grant's success. Every gift matters.
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New York Sea Grant Board Appoints William Wise as Interim NYSG Director
Press Release
May 17, 2013
Nov 14, 2019
Dr. Jim Ammerman, NYSG Director since 2008, stepped down effective May 15, 2013. Ammerman will lead an effort to bring a new NOAA program related to coastal extreme weather events and climate change to Stony Brook University in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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New York Sea Grant Relocates Great Lakes Office at SUNY Oswego
Great Lakes Extension - Press Release
Mar 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2019
New York Sea Grant has relocated into new office space in Penfield Room 4 at the State University of New York at Oswego.
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NYSG's Strategic and Implementation Plans
2014-2017
Jan 24, 2013
May 31, 2025
This is the new Strategic Plan for New York Sea Grant (NYSG) for the years 2014- 2017 as requested by the National Sea Grant Office.
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NYSG Talks Social Media to Cornell and SUNY ESF Students
NYSG News
Jun 08, 2012
Aug 02, 2020
Students from Cornell University and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry will have the opportunity to learn about the use of social media in the nonprofit and science sectors at this workshop, to be held June 13, 2012 at the Cornell University Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake.
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On YouTube: NYSG@40: LI Maritime Museum Reception - George Wallace Reads Whitman
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 02, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
During one part of New York Sea Grant's 40th anniversary celebration at the Long Island Maritime Museum on Great South Bay in September 2011, the approximately 100 people on hand were treated to the poetic stylings of George Wallace. Suffolk County’s first Poet Laureate demonstrated the relevance of famed poet Walt Whitman by reciting Whitman’s "Poems of Joy" about life along the sea.
Said Wallace, poet-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, "A mid-19th century Long Isla...
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On YouTube: NYSG@40: LI Maritime Museum Reception - Poet George Wallace on Fish
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 02, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
With local poet George Wallace, donations of local wine and seafood, a jazz trio comprised of Stony Brook University music students, and a Sea Grant staffer singing an apt variation on a classic "Beyond Sea Grant," the message of the day at New York Sea Grant's 40th anniversary celebration in September 2011 at the Long Island Maritime Museum on Great South Bay was a future of sustainability for our coastal resources.
Said NYSG Director James Ammerman, “This is our 40th anniversary. ...
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On YouTube: NYSG@40: LI Maritime Museum Reception - Music Montage
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 02, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
In this segment from the "LI Maritime Museum Reception" video series, we sample some of the music that the 100 guests on hand enjoyed while celebrating New York Sea Grant's 40th anniversary at the Long
Island Maritime Museum on Great South Bay. This followed welcome remarks by NYSG's Director, Dr. Jim Ammerman, as well as NYSG's Assistant and Associate Directors, Cornelia Schlenk and Dr. Kathy Bunting- Howarth, respectively.
"I am very proud to be a member of New York Sea Grant," sai...
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On YouTube: NYSG@40: LI Maritime Museum Reception - A Look Back at the Program
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 02, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
About 100 people were on hand to celebrate New York Sea Grant's first 40 years of "Bringing Science to the Shore" at the Long Island Maritime Museum on Great South Bay in September 2011. Attendees included NYSG's partners, advisers, business owners, researchers, graduate students, educators and staff. All enjoyed the sunshine, refreshments and music after two tropical storms had torn through much of New York just days before, reminding us of the coast’s vulnerability.
In this segmen...
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On YouTube: NYSG@40: LI Maritime Museum Reception - A Celebration (Overview)
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 02, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
At the Long Island Maritime Museum on Great South Bay in September 2011, about 100 people were welcomed by NYSG Director Dr. Jim Ammerman."This is our 40th anniversary and while we are looking back, we are really looking forward to the next 40 years. But we are here with you, our stakeholders and supporters, to celebrate the first 40 today."
On hand were partners, advisers, business owners, researchers, graduate students, educators and Sea Grant staff. All enjoyed the sunshine, refreshmen...
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Celebrating at the Maritime Museum
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 01, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
At the Long Island Maritime Museum celebration on Great South Bay in September 2011, about 100 people were welcomed by NYSG Director Dr. Jim Ammerman. “We are here with you, our stakeholders and supporters, to celebrate the first 40 today. It’s great to be on the South Shore where much of our important research and extension outreach activities have taken place over the past 40 years.”
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Celebrating 40 Years in the Great Lakes
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 01, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
With so many of its user groups – from anglers and educators to elected officials and researchers – strongly tied to these coastal resources in the Great Lakes, New York Sea Grant hosted and participated in a variety of 40th anniversary lectures and receptions this past fall.
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Celebrating 40 Years
New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 01, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
What better way to celebrate the first 40 years than by organizing events that highlighted how our partners, stakeholders, researchers, educators and elected officials have helped us “bring science to the shore” for our mutual benefit?
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Publications: New York Coastlines, Winter 2012
Mar 01, 2012
Jul 24, 2020
This issue describes many of our recent 2011 40th Anniversary activities - seminars, discussions and receptions—both upstate and down. We used this milestone as an opportunity to highlight New York Sea Grant’s many accomplishments over the last 40 years as we look forward to the next 40. Also included is a collection of YouTube video highlights of these events and those from prior anniversary events, including a May 2011 reception for NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco.
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On YouTube: NYSG Celebrates 40 Years With Lecture and More
NYSG @ 40 - News
Nov 29, 2011
Jul 24, 2020
As seen in this clip from Watertown, NY-based WWNY TV 7, Sea Grant's Dave White talks about the organization and what it has accomplished over the past four decades.
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NYSG Associate Director to Address Careers for Women in Science at SUNY Oswego
NYSG @ 40 - News
Nov 29, 2011
Jul 24, 2020
SUNY Oswego will host New York Sea Grant's Associate Director, Dr. Kathy Bunting-Howarth, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, as she discusses women in the sciences at SUNY Oswego on Lake Ontario’s shore as part of the Science Today free lecture series.
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New York Sea Grant Celebrates 40 Years at LIMM in Sayville
NYSG @ 40 - News
Sep 16, 2011
May 31, 2025
Assemblymen Robert Sweeney (D-Lindenhurst) and Fred Thiele, Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) presented NYSG with a New York State Assembly proclamation at our 40th anniversary celebration on September 9, 2011 at the Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville, NY.
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NYSG's New Web Site Design Launches
NYSG News
Jul 12, 2011
Sep 10, 2017
With a nod to social media, our Web site is now more interactive. New York Sea Grant's new online look is just the latest way we're keeping you connected to our coastal research and education news, events and initiatives.
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Jun 08, 2011
Jul 24, 2020
Throughout 2011, NYSG extension staff, educators, researchers and administrators will engage in a number or events that will allow the program to reflect on it's 40 years of “Bringing Science to the Shore.”
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NYSG Director James Ammerman in Korea
New York Coastlines, Winter 2011
Feb 21, 2011
Sep 10, 2017
Late last summer, New York Sea Grant Director Jim Ammerman took part in a two-day “2010 Korea - U.S. Sea Grant Collaboration International Workshop” late last September at South Korea’s Jeju National University.
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Saying Goodbye to Robert Kent
New York Coastlines, Winter 2011
Feb 21, 2011
Sep 10, 2017
Bob Kent reflects on his career at New York Sea Grant. He has been “Bringing Science to the Shore” since he began with New York Sea Grant Extension in 1989 as our Marine Program Coordinator.
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NYSG, Others Ranked in NOAA's State of Sea Grant Report
Jan 13, 2011
Sep 10, 2017
Late last year, the National Sea Grant Advisory Board released a first-ever comprehensive annual report of the state of NOAA's Sea Grant programs nationwide.
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Dec 23, 2010
Sep 10, 2017
U. of Georgia and Georgia Sea Grant invite you to examine communication during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Korea-U.S. Sea Grant Workshop
Oct 04, 2010
Sep 10, 2017
In late August, NYSG Director Jim Ammerman took part in a two-day "2010 Korea-U.S. Sea Grant Collaboration International Workshop." The event was held by the Jeju Sea Grant College Program at South Korea's Jeju National University.
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The Gulf Oil Spill: What Have We Lost
Oct 04, 2010
Jan 16, 2020
On Friday, October 15, 2010, a panel of experts will assemble at Stony Brook University to answer some questions regarding the Gulf Oil Spill and subsequent relief effort.
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Info Needed, Provided on Oil-Spill Monitoring and Research
Sep 28, 2010
Sep 10, 2017
A database hosted by the Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant Programs site features oil-spill-related research and monitoring activities.
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Gulf Oil Spill: Two Don't Miss Lectures
Sep 13, 2010
Sep 10, 2017
New York Sea Grant sponsors two talks on recovery eforts since the Spring 2010 Gulf Oil Spill.
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NOAA Sea Grant's Response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
May 25, 2010
Jan 16, 2020
A new NOAA Web site, "Recalling Deepwater Horizon, One Year Later," launches, featuring news releases, scientific journal papers, and links and videos from clean-up effort contributors, including those within the Sea Grant's national network.
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