In June 2009, 60 members of the New York State Marine Education Association (NYSMEA) met at Stony Brook Southampton for their annual conference. They enjoyed informative lectures by Jeffrey Herter, Project Director for the New York Ocean and Great Lakes System Conservation Council (Department of State), Deborah Cramer, author of Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World, and photographer and author, Heather Perry.

One of the concurrent workshops was led by New York Sea Grant’s Nordica Holochuck who joined Susan Hoskins, Image Analyst at Cornell University Institute for Resource Information Sciences, to provide educators a “Bird’s Eye View” to exploring changes to the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary environments.

New York Sea Grant will partner with NYSMEA to redesign their Web site and provide new educational materials to members with a re-launch planned for early next year.