Ornamental aquaculture at school featured in new video
This week’s featured video is “Marine Ornamental Aquaculture at the Marine Science Magnet High School.”
[Read More]Sea Grant’s impacts ripple across U.S. communities
National Sea Grant has created a StoryMap featuring projects from all 33 of the nation’s Sea Grant programs, including the Fenwick living shoreline project in Connecticut.
[Read More]2023 CT Sea Grant Annual Report summary now available
The fiscal 2023 annual report summary, which presents an overview of CT Sea Grant funding, research investments and projects in fisheries and aquaculture; environmental literacy; workforce development; resilient communities; and coastal ecosystems and watershed is now available.
[Read More]Abstracts for LIS research conference due March 22
2024 Long Island Sound Research Conference Call for Abstracts! Due Date March, 15th!
[Read More]Northern Woodlands magazine features CTSG forest project
The Winter 2023 issue of Northern Woodlands magazine features an article titled, “Planting for the Future at Hoffman Evergreen Preserve,” about the CT Sea Grant-Avalonia Land Trust project at the Stonington forest.
[Read More]Long Island Sound Study unveils LIS Resilience Resource Hub website
In partnership with Connecticut Sea Grant and New York Sea Grant, the Long Island Sound Study is excited to announce the official launch of the Long Island Sound (LIS) Resilience Resource Hub website.
[Read More]March 22 webinar to focus on bioactive compounds in seaweeds
The National Seaweed Hub Webinar Series will host Dr. Jinzeng Yang from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in a March 22 presentation titled, “Bioactive compounds from seaweeds for preventing metabolic diseases and their nutritional benefits.”
[Read More]Arts Support Award recipients to perform 3 concerts in March
Musical compositions created by the collaboration of an oceanographer, pianist and composer and funded by the CT Sea Grant Arts Support Award will be performed in March.
[Read More]NY & CT Sea Grant programs hosting LIS Research Conference May 15
The Long Island Sound Research conference convenes every other year, rotating venues between the states of Connecticut and New York. Highlighted at this biennial conference is the diverse research occurring in the Long Island Sound and its watershed.
[Read More]Hydroponics featured in new CT aquaculture video
This week’s featured video is “The Art of Hydroponics: Growing Fish and Fresh Vegetables.” Meet Rob Torcellini of Bigelow Brook Farms who grows a variety of greens, herbs and other vegetables and ornamental carp.
[Read More]Upcoming Events
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Apr
2
Foundations of Shellfish Farming 2024 5:30pm
Foundations of Shellfish Farming 2024
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
05:30 PM
UConn Avery Point
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Apr
2
UConn Coastal Perspectives Lecture – free 7:30pm
UConn Coastal Perspectives Lecture – free
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
07:30 PM
Auditorium (Avery Point)
Visit the UConn Coastal Perspectives website for connection information. These lectures are being offered online and in-person.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024; 7:30 p.m.
Michaela J. Thompson, Ph.D., Sustainability & Environmental Management, Harvard Extension School
Shadows in the Water: What Sharks Tell Us About Ourselves
Sharks inspire myth-making and hyperbole. We often think of them in totalizing terms: terrifying and primeval, toothy and mysterious, timeless enemies of man. But interactions between sharks and humans are deeply rooted in place and time, and constitute a history often characterized by rapid and dramatic change. In the mid-twentieth century, a series of conjunctures –technological, cultural, and scientific—thrust sharks and people into unprecedented levels of contact, resulting in a new preoccupation with the “shark menace.” To unravel this complex history, this talk examines a series of case studies in the U.S. and South Africa, nested within a larger narrative about the evolving human attitudes and responses to sharks that continue to this day. In doing so, it touches upon issues of knowledge production, contestation and collaboration between stakeholder groups, cultural narratives regarding man-eating animals, and human perceptions of the ocean.
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Apr
2
Coastal Perspectives Lecture 7:30pm
Coastal Perspectives Lecture
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
07:30 PM
Auditorium (Avery Point)
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For more information about the talk, visit: https://marinesciences.uconn.edu/cplecture5/
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Apr
16
UConn Coastal Perspectives Lecture – free 7:30pm
UConn Coastal Perspectives Lecture – free
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
07:30 PM
Academic Building (Avery Point)
Visit the UConn Coastal Perspectives website for connection information. These lectures are being offered online and in-person.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024; 7:30 p.m.
James T. Carlton, Ph.D., Professor of Marine Sciences Emeritus at Williams College and Director Emeritus of the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program
Krystal Rose, M.F.A., Curator of Collections, Mystic Seaport Museum
Spineless: The Magical World of Marine Invertebrates, and Perspectives on our Finger on the Pulse of Changes in Coastal Invertebrate Diversity
Join Krystal Rose and Dr. James T. Carlton to learn about one of the latest exhibitions at Mystic Seaport Museum, Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates. The exhibit explores some of the inspiring ways that people have recorded the ocean’s mesmerizing marine invertebrates, an abundant, diverse, and ubiquitous group of sea creatures including sponges, jellyfish, sea anemones, crustaceans, mollusks (such as sea slugs and octopuses), sea squirts, and many more. They will speak about the major themes of the exhibition, including glassmakers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka of Dresden, Germany, who in the 19th century produced glass models of spineless sea creatures with meticulously accurate anatomical details and colors; sailors’ drawings and descriptions of marine invertebrates found in logbooks and journals; the preservation of marine invertebrates as “wet specimens,” and contemporary, invertebrate-inspired art. Dr. Carlton will discuss some of the species the Blaschkas created in glass and which live today in our local waters, including some that have since become introduced species around the world. In particular, Dr. Carlton will explore the extent to which we have our “finger on the pulse” of changes in coastal marine invertebrate diversity.
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May
15
Long Island Sound Research Conference 8:00am
Long Island Sound Research Conference
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Danfords Hotel & Marina
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