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Mount Sinai High School Wins 9th Annual Bay Scallop Bowl

Mount Sinai High School defeated Bronx High School of Science to win the 9th Annual Bay Scallop Bowl held at Stony Brook University on March 6, 2010. The Bay Scallop Bowl is one of 25 regional competitions that take place nationwide as part of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.

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Students Needed for Seasonal Stewardship & Habitat Program

Looking for a great summer job? The Eastern Lake Ontario Dune and Salmon River Stewardship and Habitat Program offers the opportunity for college and graduate students to enjoy the outdoors promoting ecologically responsible use of Great Lakes ecosystems along the Eastern Lake Ontario Dunes & Wetlands Area and Salmon River corridor.

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I FISH NY

I FISH NY now offers many lessons useful to teachers on ecology and conservation biology as it relates to fish and the enjoyment of fishing. All lessons—elementary, middle school or high school—are aligned with the NYS Education Learning Standards.

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New Fish Fact Sheet Series Encourages Habitat Projects

NYSG's new series of fish habitat factsheets is available to help anglers, landowners and researchers develop collaborative projects to improve habitat for Northern pike, muskellunge and walleye.

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NYSG and Partners Make a Splash with Project WET’s Discover the Hudson River

Any way you look at the Hudson River watershed, it’s big. It covers an area as large as the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts combined, flows 315 miles from its head waters in Lake Tear of the Clouds high in the Adirondack Mountains all the way to the New York-New Jersey Harbor, is as deep as 175 feet at World’s End near West Point and as wide as 3.5 miles at Haverstraw Bay.

So begins the journey that unfolds in Discover the Hudson River, a newly-available16-page color booklet designed for teachers and students in the upper elementary grades (5-6 grades). Available free to coastal educators for a limited time only, this Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) Foundation activity booklet for kids 8-12 is a unique resource for learning about New York’s Hudson River.

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