Engaging STEM and Place-Based Environmental Literacy
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2025)
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
Professional development for teachers and outdoor education programming are successfully reaching K-12 youth in NY’s Long Island Sound region.
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Providing Student Training Opportunities
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2025)
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
NYSG programs provide undergraduate and law students with hands-on opportunities to address coastal issues.
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Great Lakes Plankton Workshop
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2025)
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
NYSG organized a two-day professional development workshop for teachers to meet researchers and learn about the microscopic world of Great Lakes plankton.
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Marine Camp Helps to Connect Youths to the Outdoor
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2025)
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
NYSG organizes a marine camp for youths from communities in New York’s Nassau County.
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Training Cornell Climate Stewards
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2025)
Jun 20, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
NYSG-trained extension educators in turn train volunteer cohorts to lead projects that will increase climate resilience and adaptation capacity in their NY counties.
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GL Education Council Recommendations Lead to Workshops on Climate Change Impacts & Adaptations
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2025)
Jun 20, 2025
Jun 22, 2025
NYSG and NYS DEC partnered with Great Lakes teachers to develop and design professional development workshops on an environmental topic important to students.
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In Media: Celebrating Long Island Sound Day
Long Island Sound Study - News
Jun 14, 2025
Jun 14, 2025
NYSG Director Rebecca Shuford spoke on the importance of collaboration, saying, "New York Sea Grant is proud to collaborate with many federal, state and local partners to help protect and improve Long Island Sound.
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Three NYSG Extension Specialists Honored for Superior Programming
Awards - News
Jun 12, 2025
Jun 15, 2025
Michael Ciaramella, NYSG’s Seafood Specialist, and Jessica A. Kuonen, NYSG's Hudson Estuary Resilience Specialist each received an award at 2024's Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant regional conference and the New York State Marine Education Association bestowed the Bob Abrams Meritorious Award upon Jimena Perez-Viscasillas.
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NYSG Site Map, Resource Sites, Related Links
About NYSG
Jun 10, 2025
Jun 19, 2025
Links on NYSG's Website, Links to NYSG's Resource Site and Partner Websites
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New York Sea Grant Spurs Careers in Research and Extension
Education - News
May 29, 2025
Jun 16, 2025
The Community Engaged Internship (CEI) program has sponsored young professionals who have worked with NYSG on research and extension, supporting them as they move into the first stages of their careers. Here, we catch up with two former CEI fellows, Bella Duati and Jade Wu, who are now professionals making a difference.
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Student Fellowships Enrich Diverse Environmental Career Interests
Education - News
May 29, 2025
Jun 16, 2025
New York Sea Grant fellowships in 2024 provided nine students with diverse learning experiences working with scientists, students, community groups, and legal issues.
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In Photos: Student Put Light on Environmental Science in Madison County and New York State
Education - News
May 29, 2025
Jun 16, 2025
Through mentoring by New York Sea Grant, the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point, and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County, Cornell University junior James Hoehner developed public outreach in Summer 2024 to highlight the environmental resources of Madison County and New York State.
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A Fresh Way to Look at How Ecosystems Might Suddenly Shift
Education - News
May 28, 2025
Jun 16, 2025
Sarah Weisberg, a 2022 NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipient, completed her work in 2024. Here, we examine a new theoretical approach that she and other scientists have been working on to explain how ecosystems might respond to climate change.
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The Effort to Ensure Climate-Ready Fisheries
Education - News
May 28, 2025
Jun 16, 2025
Sarah Weisberg, a 2022 NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipient, completed her work in 2024. Here, we examine efforts that she, along with a group of scientists, have been working on to make sure managers in charge of the nation’s fisheries incorporate climate data into fisheries decisions.
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In Photos: Updates from the 2024 Knauss Fellows
Education - News
May 28, 2025
Jun 16, 2025
NYSG reached out to its 2024 Knauss fellows — Patrick Shea, Brianna Grimes, and Maximilian Brown — and collected updates, in their own words, as their year-long fellowships in Washington D.C. came to a close.
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Publications: Success Stories
Extension - 2025
May 26, 2025
Jun 23, 2025
Included in this annual review are over 40 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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Sea Grant’s 46th Knauss Fellowship Class in D.C. Includes Five From Universities in New York
Education – Press Release
Mar 10, 2025
Jun 16, 2025
The 88 finalists for the 46th class of the prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program represent all 34 Sea Grant programs nationwide.
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Publications: Success Stories
Extension - 2024
Aug 13, 2024
May 31, 2025
Included in this annual review are nearly 30 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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NYSG Brings Educators to the Shore and Ocean Literacy into Classrooms
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Jun 16, 2025
LIS Mentor Teacher Program provides peer-to-peer, hands-on, place-based and STEM-focused professional development opportunities, brings ocean/environmental literacy into classrooms throughout LIS’s Coastal and Inland Communities.
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New York Sea Grant Provides Undergraduate Training Opportunities
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Jun 16, 2025
NY Sea Grant helps underrepresented students to receive hands-on training to address timely coastal issues.
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Lake Ontario Shipboard Science Workshop
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Jun 16, 2025
15 teachers participated in NYSG’s weeklong professional development workshop on Lake Ontario aboard the U.S. EPA R/V Lake Guardian
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Day in the Life Debuts in Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Region
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Jun 16, 2025
NYSG and partners engaged more than 650 middle school students in hands-on environmental stewardship learning along the shoreline of the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River region for the first time.
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Visualizing Sea-Level Rise with NYC Students
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Jun 16, 2025
The Resilient Schools Consortium program provides New York City youth with opportunities to better understand and address climate impacts in their neighborhoods.
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On YouTube: 2023 Community-Engaged Fellowship: Olivia Bonilla — My Perspective, My Field, My Future
Education - News
Mar 04, 2024
May 31, 2025
Olivia Bonilla, one of New York Sea Grant's 2023 Community-Engaged Fellowship recipients, created a video about her collegiate experiences. She also aided an ongoing study of the early life stages (eggs and larvae) of fish in the waters off the southern shore of Long Island.
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Summer 2023's Shipboard Science Workshop Lessons Shared at Teachers Conference in Syracuse
Great Lakes Coastal Youth Education - News
Nov 10, 2023
May 31, 2025
November 2023's Science Teachers Association of NYS Conference in Syracuse included a session on Great Lakes lessons learned and curriculum developed aboard the federal Research Vessel Lake Guardian on Lake Ontario in 2023 with NYSG Great Lakes Literacy Specialist Nate Drag.
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NYSG Students Gain Real-World Environmental Science and Law Experience
Education - News
Nov 05, 2023
May 31, 2025
Fellowships with NYSG provided eight college students with real-world experience related to the environmental sciences and environmental law in the summer of 2023.
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In Media: CCE Interns' Summer Projects Celebrated at Reception
Great Lakes Sustainable Recreational and Commercial Fisheries - News
Nov 05, 2023
May 31, 2025
During the summer of 2023 Krystal Dixon worked alongside New York Sea Grant Fisheries Specialist Stacy Furgal on lake sturgeon research.
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Students Gain Real-World Environmental Science Experience on Oneida Lake
Great Lakes Sustainable Recreational and Commercial Fisheries - Press Release
Nov 05, 2023
May 31, 2025
Through summer fellowships with NYSG two undergraduate students – Micah Ford of Arkport, NY and Krystal Dixon of New Hampton, NY – gained real-world experience with environmental science at the Cornell Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake.
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Plastic Pollution and You: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG-developed curricula focus teacher and student attention on today’s pressing environmental issues, including plastic pollution and marine debris.
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Marine Camp Classes From NYSG Resume After COVID Hiatus
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG Marine Camp partnership creates an interactive learning environment for students from underserved and underrepresented communities.
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Long Island Sound Mentor Teacher Program Returns
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
The Long Island Sound (LIS) Mentor Teacher program supported by NYSG and the LIS Study estuary program connects educators with local resources.
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Great Lakes Coastal Resilience & Climate Change Curriculum Workshop
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG professional development training for teachers is increasing their awareness, knowledge, and capacity to teach on Great Lakes topics, including climate change.
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Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Projects Engage Youth
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG, in partnership with NYS DEC, administers New York’s Great Lakes Basin Small Grants Program to benefit diverse coastal stakeholders, including youth.
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Community Science LI Educational Webinars Year Two
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG’s successful Community Science LI webinar series of 2021 continued in 2022, connecting the public with the local environment through participatory science.
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Adapted Curriculum Helps Students in NYC Explore Sea Level Rise Past and Future
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
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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A “Day in the Life” Student Experience Debuts in Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Watershed
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG, in partnership with NYS DEC, engaged middle schools with “A Day in the Life” experiential learning focused on the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River watershed .
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2022 Working with Nature Workshops
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 24, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG provides New York’s freshwater and marine shoreline stakeholders with expertise on natural and nature-based shoreline management methods
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Training Extension Educators to Develop Climate Stewards to Establish Local Climate Programming
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 23, 2023
May 31, 2025
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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Community Engaged Internship Comes to The Bronx
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 23, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG participation in National Sea Grant’s Community Engaged Internships program provides professional development to undergraduate students from underrepresented and Indigenous communities as well as benefitting local communities.
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Long Island Sound Marine Debris Plan Completed
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 23, 2023
May 31, 2025
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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2022 New York Statewide Celebration of Sturgeon
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2023)
Mar 23, 2023
May 31, 2025
NYSG and DEC, alongside many partners, coordinated a seven-event series to celebrate the continuing recovery of three of New York’s unique sturgeon species
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Publications: Success Stories
Extension - 2023
Mar 23, 2023
May 31, 2025
Included in this annual review are nearly 30 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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2022 Knauss Fellows: How Are They Faring?
Education - News
Sep 11, 2022
May 31, 2025
NYSG catches up with Giselle Schmitz, Liang Wu, and Celeste Naoko Zumwalt, all three of whom are NYSG’s current Knauss Fellows.
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NYSG Congratulates Sarah Weisberg, 2022 NMFS–Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Recipient
Education - Press Release
Sep 11, 2022
May 31, 2025
Weisberg, who hails from Stony Brook University and will be supported by NYSG, has earned one of the eight fellowships awarded this year through a national partnership between NOAA Fisheries and the National Sea Grant College Program.
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Long Island Sound: Showcasing Local Stewardship Opportunities
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022)
Aug 15, 2022
May 31, 2025
The Community Science Long Island 2021 webinar series developed by New York Sea Grant and Seatuck, with local scientists and researchers, highlighted the value of getting involved in local resource monitoring.
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Long Island Sound: Sea Grant Interns Bring Long Island Sound Habitats to Virtual Classroom
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022)
Aug 15, 2022
May 31, 2025
A New York Sea Grant-developed educational tool virtually connects teachers and students from classrooms to New York’s coastal habitats.
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Long Island Sound: Outreach Coordinator for NYC and Westchester County
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022)
Aug 15, 2022
May 31, 2025
New York City and Westchester County communities are now assisted by New York Sea Grant’s new Long Island Sound Study Outreach Coordinator.
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Advancing Lake Sturgeon Conservation: New Curriculum, Workshops and Virtual Field Trip
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022)
Aug 15, 2022
May 31, 2025
New York Sea Grant is advancing education about a Threatened fish species with a new curriculum, supplemental teaching resources, workshops, and a virtual field trip opportunity.
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Engaging New York State Educators for Interactive Online Curriculum Review
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022)
Aug 15, 2022
May 31, 2025
New York Sea Grant engaged educators and teachers from New York’s Great Lakes and Long Island regions in an interactive review of a new marine debris and plastic pollution curriculum.
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New York’s Great Lakes Basin Small Grants: 2021 Grants Underwrite Outreach to Engage Youth Audiences
Publications: Success Stories - Extension (2022)
Aug 14, 2022
May 31, 2025
New York Sea Grant administers a small grants program in partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to advance New York’s Great Lakes Basin Action Agenda priorities.
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