This bioswale installation helps reduce flooding and filters stormwater runoff in a village along New York’s Great Lakes shoreline. Credit: Mary Austerman/NYSG

How-to-Use Webinar June 30, 2025

Contacts: 

Mary Austerman, Great Lakes Coastal Community Specialist, E: mp357@cornell.edu, P: 315-331-8415
  
Lauren Darcy, NYSG Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Specialist, E: led222@cornell.edu, P: 315-849-3962
  
Kara Lynn Dunn, NYSG's Freelance Great Lakes Publicist, E: karalynn@gisco.net, P: (315) 465-7578

Newark, New York, June 3, 2025 - Newark, New York. New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has developed an online resource to help communities identify local water-related program activities that may be eligible for state or federal program certification points. More on that resource at www.nyseagrant.org/csccrosswalk.

A chart lists components of six state or federal programs: Coastal Erosion Hazard Area Communities, Community Rating System, Drinking Water Source Protection Program, Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, and Municipal Separate Stormwater Sewer System. 

Municipal leaders and staff, code officials, planners, and the public are all invited to learn how to use this new tool on Monday, June 30, 2025, 11-11:30 a.m. in a webinar hosted by New York Sea Grant Coastal Community and Coastal Resilience Specialists. To register, visit nyseagrant.info/csccrosswalkwebinar, email sgnewark@cornell.edu, or call 315-312-3042.

Each of the six state or federal water resource programs has a profile that shows its activities including, but not limited to, watershed-based planning for flood mitigation or water quality, green infrastructure installations, nature-based shorelines, adopting smart growth ordinances, and maintenance or preservation of green space. The tool does not guarantee that the local program components will qualify for state of federal points, ultimate approval resides with state or federal program reviewers. 

Funding to update this tool was provided through the New York State Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act. Barton & Loguidice, Rochester, NY, developed the tool on behalf of New York Sea Grant. 


More Info: New York Sea Grant

Established in 1966, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Sea Grant College Program promotes the informed stewardship of coastal resources in 34 joint federal/state university-based programs in every U.S. coastal state (marine and Great Lakes) and Puerto Rico. The Sea Grant model has also inspired similar projects in the Pacific region, Korea and Indonesia.

Since 1971, New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.

NYSG historically leverages on average a 3 to 6-fold return on each invested federal dollar, annually. We benefit from this, as these resources are invested in Sea Grant staff and their work in communities right here in New York.

Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.

New York Sea Grant, one of the largest of the state Sea Grant programs, is a cooperative program of the State University of New York (SUNY) and Cornell University. The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark, and in Watertown. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, in Queens, at Brooklyn College, with Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC, in Bronx, with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County in Kingston, and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester County in Elmsford.

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org, follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube). NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which it publishes 2-3 times a year.