| 08/19/2024 |
On YouTube: Hudson River Community Microplastic Remediation Pilot and Sampling Program | Marine Debris - News: In a New York Sea Grant-funded project, researchers from PolyGone aim to pioneer efforts to advance and pilot new aquatic filtration technology designed to monitor and sequester aquatic microplastics from riverine environments.
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| 08/10/2024 |
Bridging Research to Action to Reduce Plastic Pollution | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2024): NYSG strives to preserve and restore the health of coastal and aquatic ecosystems through innovative research and collaboration for the benefit of present and future generations.
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| 11/20/2023 |
In Media: NYSG Featured in NYSDEC's State of the Ocean 2023 Report | Ocean Action Plan - Press Release: The report highlights partnerships and achievements from the first five years of the OAP, including enhancing ecological integrity, promoting sustainable growth, adapting to change, and empowering public stewardship.
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| 11/18/2023 |
NYSG Announces New Great Lakes Regional Office at Rochester Institute of Technology | Marine Debris - Press Release: The initial focus of NYSG's satelline office at office at RIT is on water quality research and programming. Two Sea Grant-funded research water pollution-related projects are already underway along with two NOAA Marine Debris Program grants.
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| 08/15/2023 |
Advanced Treatment Methods Can Remove Psychiatric Medicines From the Water | Research – News: Investigators in a NYSG-funded research study examined the potential harmful effects of psychiatric medicines for New York’s Great Lakes and its estuaries.
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| 05/17/2023 |
On Air: New York Sea Grant to Look at Ways to Reduce Pollution in Waterways | Marine Debris - News: Funding, part of a larger $27M funding effort by NOAA (Sea Grant’s parent organization), supports four projects focusing on ways to reduce plastic and other types of pollution in NYS’s coastal and river waterways.
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| 05/12/2023 |
In Media: NY Sea Grant Awarded $5.2M To Fight Waterway Pollution | Marine Debris - News: Funding, part of a larger $27M funding effort by NOAA (Sea Grant’s parent organization), supports four projects focusing on ways to reduce plastic and other types of pollution in NYS’s coastal and river waterways.
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| 05/12/2023 |
In Media: $5.2+M Awarded to NY Sea Grant to Address Marine Debris | Marine Debris - News: Funding, part of a larger $27M funding effort by NOAA (Sea Grant’s parent organization), supports four projects focusing on ways to reduce plastic and other types of pollution in NYS’s coastal and river waterways.
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| 04/28/2023 |
NY Sea Grant Awarded $5.2+M in Federal Funding to Address Marine Debris | Marine Debris - Press Release: Funding, part of a larger $27M funding effort by NOAA (Sea Grant’s parent organization), supports four projects focusing on ways to reduce plastic and other types of pollution in NYS’s coastal and river waterways.
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| 04/22/2023 |
On YouTube: RIT and Seneca Park Zoo Society Host Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup | Marine Debris - News: Attendees were able to help clean up litter in the area as well as view demonstrations of plastic cleanup technology. The litter collected will be analyzed and categorized, and the data from it will be gleaned to help protect the Great Lake Regions for now and the future.
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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 |
Plastic Pollution and You: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023): NYSG-developed curricula focus teacher and student attention on today’s pressing environmental issues, including plastic pollution and marine debris.
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| 03/23/2023 |
Long Island Sound Marine Debris Plan Completed | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023): NYSG in partnership with CT Sea Grant identified and prioritized goals, objectives, strategies, and actions and completed an Action Plan to reduce marine debris in their shared coastal region of Long Island Sound
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| 12/09/2022 |
On YouTube: Plastic Pollution and You — NY Sea Grant Ways to Reduce Impact | Marine Debris - News: New York Sea Grant has published “Plastic Pollution and You,” a 126-page, 15-lesson curriculum focused on a human-induced threat to the health of New York’s marine and freshwater aquatic ecosystems.
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| 12/09/2022 |
On YouTube: Plastic Pollution and You, Teaching Kids About Plastics | Marine Debris - News: New York Sea Grant has created "Plastic Pollution and You", a lesson plan directly dedicated to plastic pollution and the human influence, and it has already been used by some teachers across the state.
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| 12/09/2022 |
On YouTube: Plastic Pollution — WPBS Weekly Inside the Stories | Marine Debris - News: Teachers throughout New York State are learning a new curriculum to teach in the classroom – It covers plastic pollution, and it’s turning young people into future environmental stewards.
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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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| 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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| 05/29/2022 |
In Media: Opinion — Everyone Can Help Make Clean Beaches a Reality | Marine Debris - News: This year’s #DontTrashLISound campaign isn’t going to be harping so much on the ubiquitous litter problem as on solutions — big, small and in-between. Every action people take builds momentum and positive peer pressure for friends and neighbors to join in keeping clean our communities and our most important waterway — Long Island Sound.
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| 05/29/2022 |
In Media: Annual #DontTrashLISound Campaign Aims to Reduce Plastic Pollution | Marine Debris - News: For the fifth consecutive year of the #DontTrashLISound social media campaign partners focus on hope for reducing plastic pollution in the estuary by highlighting positive steps people are taking to address the issue.
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| 05/18/2022 |
LI Sound Marine Debris Action Plan Organizes Bi-State Partners for Cleaner Coasts, Waterways | Marine Debris - Press Release: Consumer litter, tiny plastic shards, lost or improperly discarded fishing gear and other trash will be more effectively removed or kept out of LIS under the Marine Debris Action Plan for the estuary completed under the leadership of CTSG and NYSG.
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| 05/16/2022 |
On YouTube: Legislator Sarah Anker and NYSG Announce a New Marine Debris School Curriculum | Marine Debris - News: NYSG has published “Plastic Pollution and You,” a 126-page, 15-lesson curriculum developed for grades 3-12 to address plastic pollution, a risk to the world’s oceans, lakes, and rivers as well as our communities.
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| 05/16/2022 |
On YouTube: NYSG Curriculum Teaches Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution in NY's Marine, Freshwaters | Marine Debris - News: NYSG has published “Plastic Pollution and You,” a 126-page, 15-lesson curriculum developed for grades 3-12 to address plastic pollution, a risk to the world’s oceans, lakes, and rivers as well as our communities.
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| 05/16/2022 |
On YouTube: NYSG Curriculum Teaches How to Reduce Impact Marine Debris | Marine Debris - News: NYSG has published “Plastic Pollution and You,” a 126-page, 15-lesson curriculum developed for grades 3-12 to address plastic pollution, a risk to the world’s oceans, lakes, and rivers as well as our communities.
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| 05/16/2022 |
On YouTube: Sea Grant Offers Curriculum on Plastic Pollution | Marine Debris - News: NYSG has published “Plastic Pollution and You,” a 126-page, 15-lesson curriculum developed for grades 3-12 to address plastic pollution, a risk to the world’s oceans, lakes, and rivers as well as our communities.
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| 04/04/2022 |
Plastic Pollution and You: NY Sea Grant Curriculum Teaches Ways to Reduce Impact | Marine Debris - Press Release: NYSG has published “Plastic Pollution and You,” a 126-page, 15-lesson curriculum focused on a man-made threat to the quality of New York’s marine and freshwater aquatic ecosystems.
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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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| 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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| 11/10/2020 |
New York Coastlines, Fall 2020 | Publications - Articles / Web Extras: Check out stories from the Fall 2020 issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our next issue, which is currently being release in February 2021 to our e-subscribers. We'll send you issues weeks before they're online.
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| 10/16/2020 |
In Media: $2.1 Million Awarded for Sea Grant Research on NY’s Coastal Environment | Research - News: NYSG has awarded more than $2.1 million to support six coastal science research projects —three of which are being led by Stony Brook University faculty — that explore topics relating to and benefiting New York’s coastal environment, communities and economies.
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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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| 09/16/2020 |
$2.1 Million Awarded for Sea Grant Research on NY’s Coastal Environment, Communities & Aquaculture | Research - Press Release: “This set of projects will contribute to the long-standing and growing body of NYSG-supported science-based knowledge available to coastal communities in New York State.”
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| 08/13/2020 |
#DontTrashLISound: Summer 2020 Social Media Campaign Focuses on PPEs | Long Island Sound Study - News: One of the focal points of this year’s #DontTrashLISound social media campaign is a problem that's grown during the COVID-19 pandemic: personal protective equipment
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| 07/14/2020 |
New York Coastlines, Summer 2020 | Publications - Articles / Web Extras: Check out stories from the summer 2020 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 the fall to our e-subscribers. We'll send you issues weeks before they're online.
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| 06/25/2020 |
In Media: RIT researchers receive grant to study microplastic pollution in Lake Ontario | Marine Debris / Research - News: An interdisciplinary team is studying (with funding from New York Sea Grant) how microplastics accumulate in the lake's ecosystem
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| 06/24/2020 |
In Media: Sea Grant Coordinates Marine Debris Action Plan for LI Sound | Marine Debris - News: Sea Grant programs in New York and Connecticut are coordinating a Marine Debris Action Plan for Long Island Sound to develop a comprehensive strategy to rid the Long Island Sound of as much debris as possible.
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| 06/24/2020 |
In Media: Musings on Marine Debris | Ocean Action Plan - News: When it comes to marine debris, what happens to this garbage littering our communities? How did it get there? Whose responsibility is it to clean it up? And, who can help make sure that these places stay clean?
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| 04/23/2020 |
In Photos: Long Island Sound Marine Debris Reduction | Marine Debris - Press Release: The Marine Debris Action Plan for Long Island Sound, led by Sea Grant programs in New York and Connecticut, is one of eight projects awarded funding through NOAA’s Sea Grant-Marine Debris Special Projects Competition.
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| 04/21/2020 |
Earth Day at 50: New York Sea Grant looks at the past, present, and future | Education - News: In celebration of 50 years of Earth Day, NYSG joins NOAA, its federal parent agency, to examine some of its education programs that are making a measurable difference for the environment.
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| 04/19/2020 |
On YouTube: Plastics - "We're The Problem, But We're The Solution. Be The Change" | Research - News: In this video, two students from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia introduce us to some of the New York Sea Grant-funded researchers studying marine debris and microplastics ... and encourage us to "Be the Change."
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| 04/19/2020 |
Plastics floating in the water: What are the risks? | Research - News: NYSG-funded researchers sought to answer a few key questions: How long does it take for common plastics to degrade in the water? What pollutants might be hitchhiking on the outer surfaces of these circulating, cast-off polymers?
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| 04/19/2020 |
Tiny organisms in the water eating plastic: Could it harm us all? | Research - News: Projects like this one, funded by New York Sea Grant, have brought attention to microplastics, small plastic particles that have found their way into our waterways.
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| 04/07/2020 |
New York Coastlines, Spring 2020 | Publications - Articles / Web Extras: Check out stories from the spring 2020 issue of our flagship publication, NY Coastlines, and be sure you're on our e-list to receive our latest issue, which was released in mid-July to our e-subscribers. Sign up and we'll send you issues weeks before it's online.
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| 03/15/2020 |
New York Sea Grant Research: 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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| 03/14/2020 |
NYSG & Mid-Atlantic Partners: Preventing Balloon Debris | Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2020): Reducing intentional balloon debris, one of the most prevalent and damaging “acceptable” forms of coastal littering, is uniting NYSG and Mid-Atlantic partners
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| 11/14/2019 |
On YouTube, In Photos: Cleaning Up and Surveying Balloon Debris on Jones Beach | Ocean Action Plan - News: NYSG's Ocean and Marine Outreach Coordinator, is part of a Mid-Atlantic effort to study the extent of the balloon debris issue throughout the region, clean up debris, and provide outreach and alternatives to releasing balloons into the environment.
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| 08/02/2019 |
New York Coastlines, Early Summer 2019 | Publications - Articles / Web Extras: 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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| 06/20/2019 |
On YouTube: NYSG Offers Interactive Coastal-Themed Activities at Stony Brook University's Earthstock | Education - News: In addition to offering some interactive activities, NYSG provided festival-goers with fact sheets on rip currents safety and newsletters like Sound Update, which provides a snapshot of efforts being undertaken by Long Island Sound Study, a NYSG partner organization.
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| 05/08/2019 |
Currents Clips | News: 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.
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