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Lake Ontario Shipboard Science For Educators
Check out the daily blog from our week-long cruise for teachers and researchers studying Lake Ontario aboard the USEPA's Lake Guardian!
Rip Currents Can Be a Threat
NOAA and Sea Grant are urging beachgoers to learn how to “Break the Grip” of rip currents. If caught in one, don’t fight it! Swim parallel to the shore and then swim at an angle – away from the current – toward shore.
Collaborative Marketing for LI’s Sportfishing
Identifying ways to improve public access to sportfishing info in an effort to assist residents and tourists to make more informed choices.
Researchers Find Ways to Improve Storm Surge Forecasts
A new Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society report offers hope that a high-resolution storm surge modeling system developed by NYSG-funded scientists at SBU will better be able to predict flood levels and when flooding will occur in the New York metropolitan area.
Sea Grant Programs Sponsor VHS Workshop
On October 17, the New York and Rhode Island Sea Grant Programs will sponsor an informative Workshop on VHS, Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia, for Marine Extension and Fish Health Professionals.
Speakers at the workshop will include Dave Mac Neill, NYSG's Great Lakes Fisheries Specialist, and NYSG-funded researcher Dr. Paul Bowser (pictured above), Professor of Aquatic Animal Medicine at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Bowser is studying this disease and its emergence in the Great Lakes.
More information on the event, as well as a Q&A on VHS with Dr. Bowser, is available on our Great Lakes fisheries resource site.
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