NYSMEA and NYSG Re-Team for Habitat Restoration Efforts and Wetlands Loss Education

New York Sea Grant’s (NYSG) Long Island Sound Educator, Larissa Graham, and Web Content Manager, Paul C. Focazio, are joining about a dozen educators and teachers from the New York State Marine Education Association (NYSMEA) for a five-day trip to south Louisiana to learn about plant restoration efforts and talk with experts about tidal wetlands loss. This is the second year that NYSG and NYSMEA have partnered for this in-the-field experience.

"NYSMEA members are eager to assist in restoration efforts, and to raise awareness back in New York that there is plenty of work to be done in the Gulf and here at home," says NYSMEA President Meghan Marrero."Several attendees are classroom teachers, and will be bringing what they learned back to their students in the classroom right away."

Following the trip to southern Louisiana, the group of educators will share what they have learned with other NYSMEA members, students and the general public through both a Web blog, with content provided by NYSG through the end of February, and a Web casts at the Association's annual conference this summer. 



NYSG Celebrated 40 Years in 2011

Throughout 2011, NYSG extension staff, educators, researchers and administrators engaged in a number of events that allowed the program to reflect on it's 40 years of “Bringing Science to the Shore.”