| 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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| 02/28/2023 |
More Than $6.3 Million in Funds for New Long Island Sound Research | Long Island Sound (Research) - Press Release: These new projects — focusing on Long Island Sound marshes, water quality, public beaches and seeking information that can be used to improve the conditions of the estuary for humans and wildlife — are supported by more than $6.3 million in total funds.
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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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| 12/12/2022 |
On Air: Communicating Rip Current Risk in English and Spanish | Coastal Processes & Hazards / Research - News: Rip currents pose a hazard to visitors to beaches in Long Island and across the nation. According to Dr. Jase Bernhardt, signage and education often do not take into account the region’s large Spanish-speaking population. “There is a dearth of safety materials in languages other than English,” he said, “and that can lead to fatalities.”
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| 09/14/2022 |
Seaweed Farms May Ease Ocean Acidity, Improve Water Quality | Research - News: Scientists are growing multiple types of seaweed in Long Island Sound, in near-shore locations in Connecticut and New York. Their goal: improve water quality while expanding the industry for cultivated seaweed, oysters, and mussels in the region.
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| 09/14/2022 |
On YouTube: State of the Bays — 2022: Science Shows Promise | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: “All of Long Island is a watershed,” SBU's Chris Gobler remarked. “All activities on land affect the quality of the groundwater.” Over the past few decades, he notes, things have been changing on the Island. With an increase in population has come an increase of nitrogen—its primary source being nitrates in wastewater.
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| 08/25/2022 |
NY Sea Grant Great Lakes Specialist Recognized by Women of Fisheries | Great Lakes Sustainable Recreational and Commercial Fisheries - Press Release: NYSG's Stacy Furgal has been recognized by Women of Fisheries as one of six co-authors of an article on lake trout stocking into the Lake Ontario. The article was published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research.
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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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| 08/09/2022 |
New York Sea Grant Research: 2021 Results and Impacts | Research - News: For 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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| 08/08/2022 |
Publications: Success Stories | Extension - 2022: Included in this annual review are three dozen summaries of select work conducted by our program's extension specialists and funded researchers to develop and provide stakeholder-driven, science-based information, tools, and other resources that support local communities, businesses, and individuals.
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| 05/25/2022 |
On YouTube: HABs A Summer of Discontent in Long Island's Coastal Waters | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: SBU scientists have completed their assessment of water quality in Long Island’s estuaries in 2021, and the news is not good. rom June through October, every major bay and estuary was afflicted by toxic algae blooms and oxygen-starved, dead zones.
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| 05/06/2022 |
NYSG Research: Journal Articles Roundup | Research - News: Over a dozen summaries are offered for published journal articles based on Sea Grant research projects funded throughout New York State.
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| 05/06/2022 |
Molecular Adaptation and Selection in Oysters | Research - News: A group of New York Sea Grant-funded scientists is using the eastern oyster as a model species to measure the importance of rapid evolutionary responses.
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| 05/05/2022 |
Living with Water: Social and Emotional Impacts of Tidal Flooding | Jamaica Bay / NYC - News: A team of researchers has published a paper about the social and emotional impacts of sunny day flooding. Their goal is to better engage local knowledge into adaptation planning.
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| 05/05/2022 |
The Hard Clam Selective Breeding Collaborative Offers Support for Stressed Clams | Marine Fisheries Resource Center / Research - News: Hard clams are a socioeconomically important species that are key to the marine food web, which is why a regional collaborative of scientists is focusing on challenges that have been delivering a one-two punch since the 1990s ...
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| 03/16/2022 |
2022 Long Island Sound Research Conference | Long Island Sound (Research) - News: The 2022 Long Island Sound Research Conference will be held at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, CT on Wednesday May 18, 2022.
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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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| 12/23/2021 |
New York Sea Grant's 2020 Success Stories | Story Maps: A compilation of select 2020 coastal New York extension projects, outreach programs and research results that benefit New Yorkers.
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| 12/23/2021 |
Hard Clam Selective Breeding Collaborative | Story Maps: A three year project under 2019's National Sea Grant Advanced Aquaculture Collaborative Programs in support of NOAA Sea Grant's 10 year Aquaculture Vision
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| 08/28/2021 |
New York Coastlines, Summer 2021 | Publications - Articles: Check out stories from the Summer 2021 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 in Spring '22 to our e-subscribers. We'll send you issues weeks before they're online.
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| 08/06/2021 |
In Media: Kelp Could Be Environmental Elixir, And Economic Opportunity | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Using kelp to help reduce nitrogen in Long Island waters was the subject Dr. Christopher Gobler's May 27th press conference at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) Marine Science Center at Stony Brook Southampton. This is a media mention related to that announcement.
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| 08/06/2021 |
On Air: Cash For Kelp — Long Island Groups Create Seaweed Farm Incentive Program To Reduce Nitrogen | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Using kelp to help reduce nitrogen in Long Island waters was the subject Dr. Christopher Gobler's May 27th press conference at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) Marine Science Center at Stony Brook Southampton. This is a media mention related to that announcement.
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| 08/06/2021 |
On YouTube: Stony Brook Researchers — Sugar Kelp Could Help Cleanup Long Island's Waterways | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Using kelp to help reduce nitrogen in Long Island waters was the subject Dr. Christopher Gobler's May 27th press conference at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) Marine Science Center at Stony Brook Southampton. This is a media mention related to that announcement.
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| 08/06/2021 |
On YouTube: Incentive Spurs Plans to Grow Kelp for Reducing Nitrogen in Waters | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Using kelp to help reduce nitrogen in Long Island waters was the subject Dr. Christopher Gobler's May 27th press conference at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) Marine Science Center at Stony Brook Southampton. This is a media mention related to that announcement.
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| 08/06/2021 |
In Media: Cultivating Kelp Will Help Cut Down Nitrogen in Local Waters | Harmful Algal Blooms - Press Release: Using kelp to help reduce nitrogen in Long Island waters was the subject Dr. Christopher Gobler's May 27th press conference at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) Marine Science Center at Stony Brook Southampton.
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| 08/05/2021 |
On YouTube: Early 'Mahogany Tide' Algae Bloom In Great South Bay Has Experts Greatly Concerned | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Ahead of the Summer 2021 season, Stony Brook University investigator Christopher Gobler provided his annual “State of the Bays” address. This is one of the media mentions that followed as the season was underway.
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| 08/05/2021 |
On YouTube: Tests Show Brown Tide Cell Count in Patchogue at Highest Level Since 2017 | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Ahead of the Summer 2021 season, Stony Brook University investigator Christopher Gobler provided his annual “State of the Bays” address. This is one of the media mentions that followed as the season was underway.
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| 08/05/2021 |
On YouTube: Scientists — LI's Great South Bay Suffering Through Most Intense Brown Tide In Years | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Ahead of the Summer 2021 season, Stony Brook University investigator Christopher Gobler provided his annual “State of the Bays” address. This is one of the media mentions that followed as the season was underway.
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| 08/05/2021 |
On YouTube: Worst Brown Tide in Years Threatens Great South Bay | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Ahead of the Summer 2021 season, Stony Brook University investigator Christopher Gobler provided his annual “State of the Bays” address. This is one of the media mentions that followed as the season was underway.
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| 07/02/2021 |
In Photos, On YouTube: State of the Bays — 2021 | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: "There are no local or regional options to mitigate the global rise in temperatures nor carbon dioxide," said Stony Brook University researcher Chris Gobler. "Thus, our primary tool to lessen the intensity of HABs, hypoxia, and coastal acidification is the mitigation of nitrogen."
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| 05/29/2021 |
Protecting the Water Quality in Long Island Sound | Long Island Sound (Research) - News: A group of scientists funded by Sea Grant programs in NY and CT are assembling the pieces of a puzzle to determine the impact of past excesses in nitrogen release to Long Island Sound and the efficacy of efforts to remediate them.
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| 05/24/2021 |
Update on Harmful Algal Blooms in Sodus Bay, Lake Ontario | Harmful Algal Blooms - News: Extensive studies on Sodus Bay highlight the complexity of harmful algal blooms. It’s not a simple case of excess nutrients, or just warming summers, but a complex interaction of multiple events, including wind, weather, nutrients and localized circulation. All are necessary for a bloom to occur.
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| 05/24/2021 |
Can Blue Mussels Overcome the Effects of Ocean Acidification? | Marine Fisheries Resource Center / Research - News: Ocean Acidification (OA) is impacting shoreline areas, like Long Island Sound, at a greater rate than the open ocean. Bivalves, like clams, oysters, and mussels, are particularly vulnerable to negative impacts of OA, especially their early life stages, or larvae.
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| 05/23/2021 |
Are Shellfish Resilient Against Ocean Acidification? | Marine Fisheries Resource Center / Research - News: The overarching goal of this NYSG-funded research is to better understand resilience to ocean acidification in the eastern oyster and hard clam.
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| 05/08/2021 |
New York Coastlines, Spring 2021 | Publications - Articles: Check out stories from the Spring 2021 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 over the summer to our e-subscribers. We'll send you issues weeks before they're online.
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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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| 04/18/2021 |
In Media: Report Shows Social Impacts of New York City’s “Sunny Day” Flooding | NY Coastlines - News: Highlights from the Winter 2021 issue of the NY Coastlines e-newsletter, New York Sea Grant's flagship publication
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| 04/18/2021 |
In Media: NY's Annual Seafood Summit (Virtually) Spotlights COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges | NY Coastlines - News: Highlights from the Winter 2021 issue of the NY Coastlines e-newsletter, New York Sea Grant's flagship publication
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| 04/18/2021 |
In Media: Grant-Funded Projects to Study Water Quality, Other Environmental Issues in LIS | Long Island Sound (Research) - News: Under examination in the suite of studies are various facets of the water chemistry and habitat quality of Long Island Sound. Findings for these two year projects may potentially yield more effective management decisions.
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| 04/18/2021 |
In Media: Chris Gobler’s LI Sound Research Receives Federal Funding | Long Island Sound (Research) - News: Under examination in the suite of studies are various facets of the water chemistry and habitat quality of Long Island Sound. Findings for these two year projects may potentially yield more effective management decisions.
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| 04/18/2021 |
In Media: 'To Protect and Restore the Sound' | Long Island Sound (Research) - News: Under examination in the suite of studies are various facets of the water chemistry and habitat quality of Long Island Sound. Findings for these two year projects may potentially yield more effective management decisions.
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| 04/18/2021 |
In Media: More Than $2.8 Million in Funds for New Long Island Sound Research | Long Island Sound (Research) - News: Under examination in the suite of studies are various facets of the water chemistry and habitat quality of Long Island Sound. Findings for these two year projects may potentially yield more effective management decisions.
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| 04/18/2021 |
In Media: Over $2.8 Million in Funds for New Long Island Sound Research | Long Island Sound (Research) - News: Under examination in the suite of studies are various facets of the water chemistry and habitat quality of Long Island Sound. Findings for these two year projects may potentially yield more effective management decisions.
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| 04/13/2021 |
Great Lakes Research Consortium Celebrates 35 Years of Great Lakes Science | Great Lakes Boating & Marine Trades - News: Highlights of the report include a handful of small grants — on topics such as contaminants of emerging concern and harmful algal blooms — that have had big impacts.
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| 01/31/2021 |
In Photos: Eight Ecological Research Projects Seek to Inform Better Management of Long Island Sound | Long Island Sound (Research) - Press Release: Under examination in the suite of studies (funded via more than $2.8 million in federal funding through the Long Island Sound Study Research Grant Program) are various facets of the water chemistry and habitat quality of Long Island Sound. Findings for these two year projects, which are now underway, may potentially yield more effective management decisions.
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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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| 01/27/2021 |
Publications: Success Stories | Extension - 2021: Included in this annual review are over two dozen summaries of select work conducted by our program's extension specialists and funded researchers to develop and provide stakeholder-driven, science-based information, tools, and other resources that support local communities, businesses, and individuals.
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| 01/27/2021 |
How Sea Grant Benefits You | Research, Extension, Education - News: 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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