New York Sea Grant has recently issued its 2010 impact statements series that offers a summary of the previous year’s programming.

Educational efforts along the Great Lakes shoreline of New York in 2009 included the following:

• “teaching the teachers” how to instruct students about shoreline science through hands-on training along the Great Lakes, distance learning programs, and science exploration days (pdf)
  
  
• sharing trawling technology design and use expertise with international partners (pdf)
  
  
• communicating Cornell University’s Drs. Paul Bowser and James Casey’s research on ways to prevent and contain the VHS (viral hemorrhagic septicemia) virus in fish (pdf)
  
  
• providing a new-in-2009 Lake Ontario water levels update resource (pdf)
  
  
• informing audiences about the Eastern Lake Ontario Dunes and Salmon River ecosystems through a new-in-2009 stewardship blog (pdf)
  
  
• celebrating New York’s freshwater maritime heritage and scuba diving opportunities through the three-time award-winning Great Lakes Seaway Trail Shipwrecks and Dive the Seaway Trail project (pdf)
  
  
• networking with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and specialists nationwide on climate change extension (pdf)