| 02/13/2024 |
On YouTube: MyCoast NY — 2024 Program Updates and Open Forum | Coastal Processes & Hazards - News: The MyCoast New York portal is used to collect and analyze photos of flooding, changing shorelines, and hazardous weather impacts across New York’s various water bodies.
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| 08/20/2023 |
Sea Grass Meadows Could Help All Living Things in an Acidic Ocean | Research – News: A SBU-led team assessed the ability of seagrass to draw down carbon dioxide from the aquatic environment. This could reduce the effects of ocean acidification, which would be a benefit to shellfish.
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| 06/05/2023 |
New York Coastlines, Late Spring 2023 | Publications - Articles: Check out stories from the Late Spring 2023 issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our next issue, which is slated for release later this Summer, likely in late August, to our e-subscribers. We'll send you issues weeks before they're online.
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| 05/11/2023 |
People on the Move in a Changing Climate (PEMOCC) | Climate - News: New York Sea Grant is part of two multi-Sea Grant projects — one in the Mid-Atlantic and another in the Great Lakes region — that provide a science-based infrastructure for studying climate-driven population shifts.
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| 04/27/2023 |
In Media: New SG Funding to Shore Up More Statewide Community Engagement in Coastal Resilience | Climate - News: A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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| 04/27/2023 |
On Air: Keeping Track of Coastal Flooding Data? There's an App For That | Climate - News: A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to $8.1 million to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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| 04/27/2023 |
In Media: Community Engagement a Focus of Sea Grant’s New Statewide Coastal Resilience Funding | Climate - News: A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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| 04/27/2023 |
In Media: Community Engagement a Focus of Sea Grant’s Coastal Resilience Funding | Climate - News: A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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| 04/23/2023 |
On Air: Peconic Bay Scallop Die-Offs Are “A Cautionary Tale” for New England | Research - News: Once one of the largest fisheries on the East Coast, Peconic Bay scallops have faced near complete die-offs on Long Island since 2019. A study by Stony Brook University shows this could be a cautionary tale for New England.
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| 03/30/2023 |
New York Sea Grant Research: 2023 Results and Impacts | Research - News: For more than five decades, New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has been supporting university-based research related to a variety of marine, Hudson estuary, and Great Lakes topics and issues.
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| 03/24/2023 |
Adapted Curriculum Helps Students in NYC Explore Sea Level Rise Past and Future | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023): NYSG provided scientific expertise to update and enhance a climate-focused curriculum to help NYC area students envision and plan for climate resilience.
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| 03/24/2023 |
MyCoast New York: Engaging Communities to Document Floods & Storm Damage | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023): NYSG is piloting a statewide community science tool that engages New Yorkers in documenting and sharing their experiences with floods, storm damage, and coastal changes through photos.
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| 03/23/2023 |
Training Extension Educators to Develop Climate Stewards to Establish Local Climate Programming | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023): NYSG’s Climate Stewards program is providing science-based training to equip volunteers to organize climate mitigation and resilience projects in New York,
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| 03/23/2023 |
NYSG's Public Participation Guide Helps Communities Engage in the Offshore Wind Development Process | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023): NYSG’s public participation guide helps reduce barriers to public participation in the offshore wind energy development process.
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| 03/23/2023 |
Assessing Climate-Driven Migration in the Great Lakes | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023): NYSG is part of a national research collaboration consortium focused on climate-induced human migration.
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| 03/20/2023 |
New Sea Grant Funding to Shore Up More Statewide Community Engagement in Coastal Resilience | Climate - News: A handful of NYSG projects — Community Flood Watch in NYC, MyCoast NY, and efforts related to natural and nature-based shorelines — will be bolstered and expanded thanks to support from a $8.1 million national investment to strengthen resilient coastal communities.
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| 03/14/2023 |
Envisioning Community Flood Resilience | Jamaica Bay / NYC - News: A team of researchers published a journal article on the concept of resilience and how to define the term in a way that it can be measured, assessed and promoted in design and policy.
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| 03/14/2023 |
On YouTube: New York Sea Grant Brings Strategies to COP27 Climate Summit | Climate - News: — By Chris Gonzales, Freelance Science Writer, New York Sea Grant
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| 03/09/2023 |
On YouTube: MyCoast NY — With Images, Community Science Tackles Flooding in New York | Coastal Processes & Hazards - News: Download This: MyCoast NY is an app that can provide you with a way to locally document increasing flood risk and uncertainty
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| 01/09/2023 |
New York Coastlines, Fall / Winter 2022 | Publications - Articles: Check out stories from the Fall / Winter 2022 issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our next issue, which is slated for release this Spring, likely in mid-late March, to our e-subscribers. We'll send you issues weeks before they're online.
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| 12/09/2022 |
On YouTube: Will Climate Change Have an Effect on Human Migration in New York? | Climate - News: “Where are people likely to be leaving because of things like sea level rise and where might the county be that people want to potentially inhabit?” asked Katherine Bunting-Howarth, associate director of the New York Sea Grant. “Some of those areas have been identified as being in the Great Lakes.”
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| 09/20/2022 |
The Great Lakes and Climate-Induced Human Migration | Climate - News: The eight-page document prompts consideration of how such factors as rising temperatures and precipitation, extreme weather events, sea level rise, and flooding that influence human migration, displacement, and planned relocation may impact the Great Lakes region of the U.S.
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| 08/14/2022 |
Renewable Energy, Climate Impact & Blue Economy: New Coastal Climate Specialist | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022): New York Sea Grant’s new Coastal Climate Specialist will engage stakeholders with extension programming focused on renewable energy, local climate change impacts, and NY’s blue economy.
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| 08/14/2022 |
Cornell Climate Stewards Program: Building Capacity for Local Action by New York Communities | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022): New York Sea Grant expertise is helping to increase the climate action capacity of communities across New York State through a new Climate Stewards training program.
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| 08/11/2022 |
Assessing Climate-Driven Migration in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022): A Sea Grant-led effort is identifying the research needed to address climate-induced human migration in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S.
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| 08/09/2022 |
New York Sea Grant Research: 2022 Ongoing Projects | Research - News: Summaries for ongoing investigations that address a variety of concerns within a few key topics, including: harmful algal blooms, microplastics, marine fisheries, aquaculture and coastal resiliency for communities on Long Island and around NY's Great Lakes.
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| 05/30/2022 |
New York Coastlines, Spring 2022 | Publications - Articles: Check out stories from the Spring 2022 issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our next issue, which is slated for release this Fall, likely in mid-late November, to our e-subscribers. We'll send you issues weeks before they're online.
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| 05/18/2022 |
Offshore Renewable Energy | Offshore Renewable Energy - Home: Offshore Renewable Energy: Home
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| 05/18/2022 |
Northeast Ocean Renewable Energy — Sea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries Fund Six New Projects | Ocean Renewable Energy: Regional (Northeast) - Press Release: The half dozen projects selected are led by principal investigators in three northeast U.S. states — Maine, New York and Rhode Island.
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| 05/16/2022 |
Northeast Ocean Renewable Energy — Six New Projects Announced | Offshore Ocean Energy: Regional (Northeast) - News: In NYSG's project, led by a PI from Cornell University, the development of a tool is proposed that would empower stakeholders to make more informed decisions that could substantially increase economic efficiencies in the long term, thereby increasing economic resiliency.
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| 05/09/2022 |
NYSG Staff Named to New York State’s Climate Impacts Assessment Team | Climate - News: New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed two from NYSG to the State’s Climate Impacts Assessments technical working group teams, who along with other members, will ultimately suggest science-based strategies to prepare for and adapt to climate change.
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| 04/05/2022 |
New Coastal Climate Specialist Focuses on Renewable Energy, Blue Economy | Climate - Press Release: In addition to offshore energy work, NYSG's new Coastal Climate Specialist will extend cutting-edge research related to climate-change mitigation, which ultimately will help with local resilience and ocean literacy.
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| 03/10/2022 |
New York Stewards Trained to Work on Local Climate Change Projects | Climate - News: The objective of Cornell's Climate Stewards program is to provide research-based, hands-on training to community members who are motivated to work on climate change at the local level.
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| 03/03/2022 |
People on the Move in a Changing Climate Great Lakes Workshop — June 2022 | Climate - News: During this virtual workshop, experts and stakeholders will discuss the identification of the scientific infrastructure that is required to conduct place-based, use-inspired collaborative research on climate-induced human mobility, and regionally tailored educational and engagement strategies.
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| 02/01/2022 |
$1.4 Million Awarded for Sea Grant Research on NY’s Coastal Environment, Economies and Communities | Research - Press Release: "These projects will make valuable contributions to the now 50-year legacy of NYSG-supported, science-based knowledge of benefit to New York State’s coastal communities."
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| 08/07/2021 |
NYSG a Partner on LI Explorium's NOAA-Funded Citizen Science, Civics, Resilient Communities Grant | Coastal Processes & Hazards - Press Release: "This campaign will contribute to our currently funded two-year grant related to monitoring shoreline flooding," says NYSG Coastal Processes and Hazards Specialist Kathleen Fallon.
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| 04/23/2021 |
Mayor de Blasio Announces State of Climate Knowledge 2021 Report | NYC - Press Release: First annual report outlines City’s climate research agenda; Will guide future partnerships with academic researchers; NYSG among those commenting.
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| 04/18/2021 |
On YouTube: Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population | Research - News: Stephen Tomasetti, a Sea Grant-supported student on two New York Sea Grant-funded projects, discusses what has happened to the Long Island oyster population and what is being done to bring the population back
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| 04/18/2021 |
On YouTube: Kelp Could be Silver Bullet in Fighting Climate Change in Our Oceans | Research - News: Stony Brook University researchers discuss why kelp is such an important asset in the fight against climate change.
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| 03/29/2021 |
2021 Northeast Sea Grant Ocean Energy Research RFP | Ocean Renewable Energy: Regional (Northeast) - Press Release: Approximately $1M available to support projects to improve understanding of the effects of ocean renewable energy development on coastal communities, including the fishing industry. Pre-proposals due May 14; Full proposals due July 16th, by 5 pm on both dates.
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| 01/27/2021 |
NYSG & LISS Host Teacher Webinar Showcasing New Module on Climate Change Impact on Coastal Marshes | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2021): New York Sea Grant adapted to the virtual environment to provide research-based educational resources on climate change
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| 01/27/2021 |
Empowering Communities Through a Justice-Oriented Online Mapping Tools Guide | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2021): New York Sea Grant has developed an online mapping tools guide that will serve as a data-driven support for community interest in environmental justice
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| 01/27/2021 |
New York Coastal Resilience Law and Policy Fellows Assemble Resources to Help Communities | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2021): NYSG led the creation of a New York Coastal Resilience Law and Policy Program, providing communities with legal information to help increase local resilience while enhancing the educational experience of law students
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| 01/27/2021 |
New York Sea Grant Research: 2020 Results and Impacts | Research - News: For nearly 50 years, New York Sea Grant has been supporting university-based research related to a variety of marine, Hudson estuary, and Great Lakes topics and issues.
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| 10/27/2020 |
On Air: Community Flood Watch Project Engages Residents in Reporting and Mitigation | Jamaica Bay / NYC - News: This October 2020 episode explores a NYSG-led community science project aimed at mitigating the impacts of flooding in Jamaica Bay, NY.
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| 10/23/2020 |
New York Sea Grant Welcomes Katie Graziano as Jamaica Bay Coastal Resilience Specialist | Jamaica Bay / NYC - Press Release: “Flood Watch” Project, an community science-driven initiative in collaboration with NYC Mayor’s Office of Resilience, is a focus in Oct. 27th Cornell “Extension Out Loud” Podcast
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| 10/04/2020 |
On Air: New York City Residents Document Sea-level rise in Coastal Neighborhoods | Jamaica Bay / NYC - News: Tidal flooding is getting worse as sea levels rise, and it’s important to know how people are affected. So, as part of the Community Flood Watch Project, residents document and report flooding.
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| 10/04/2020 |
In Media: Environmental Group Speaks with CB 10 about Community Flood Watch Project | Jamaica Bay / NYC - News: The Community Flood Watch Project uses citizen science to report flooding events in the Jamaica Bay watershed.
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| 10/03/2020 |
On YouTube: RiSC Program Helps NYC Students Learn How to Build a Climate Resilient Future | NYC - News: “In a world where extreme weather events, hurricanes and wildfires are ravaging communities and disproportionately threatening already vulnerable populations, programs like RiSC are urgently needed.”
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| 09/22/2020 |
NYSG's “Currents Clips” Wins 2020 Folio Award for ‘Best Social Media Public Awareness Campaign’ | Currents Clips - News: Launched in mid-2019 as a limited series, this collection of one- to two-minute videos immerses NYSG's subscribers and followers into the program's coastal research, extension and education work.
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