GLIN==> Press release: New York Sea Grant Impact Statements Show Depth of Programming and Benefit to NY¹s Shoreline Regions

PRESS RELEASE: April 6, 2011
Contacts:  NYSG Great Lakes: Dave White, 315-312-3042; NYSG Marine District:
Antoinette Clemetson, 631-727-3910
 This release is online at
http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/article.asp?ArticleID=609
 
Jpg available: The research-outreach project of NY Sea Grant Fisheries
Specialist David MacNeill (left) and Dr. Paul Bowser of the Cornell
University College of Veterinary Medicine Aquatic Animal Health Program
earned the National Sea Grant 2010 Research Application Award. Photo:
Stephanie Specchio, Cornell University
 
New York Sea Grant Impact Statements Show Depth of Programming and Benefit
to NY¹s Shoreline Regions
 
New York Sea Grant Extension at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, has issued a
series of impact statements for projects completed by the coastal science
extension organization in 2010. Project beneficiaries range from New York¹s
public and private coastal property managers and municipal leaders to
commercial fishermen, students, teachers, seafood safety inspectors and
European fisheries managers.
 
³These New York Sea Grant (NYSG) 2010 Impact Statements demonstrate the
important connections that NYSG extension specialists made with a variety of
coastal stakeholder groups in New York and beyond in the past year. They
illustrate the practical, economic, environmental, and educational benefits
of New York Sea Grant outreach efforts to New York¹s freshwater and marine
coastal communities,² said New York Sea Grant Director James Ammerman.
 
Project stakeholder testimony includes gratitude from commercial fisherman
John Scheu, who participated in Safety-At-Sea training. Scheu said, ³Without
a doubt, I¹d rather learn here on the dock (in Montauk) than offshore when
it¹s 5 degrees in February.²  Until the 2010 NY Sea Grant program, there had
been no formal Safety-At-Sea training conducted in the past 10 years.
 
Two downstate municipalities applied data from the East Coast Winter Storms
website, developed by New York Sea Grant in partnership with NOAA¹s
Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, to obtain $1
million in funding for storm damage restoration and mitigation projects.
 
In the Great Lakes region, more than 1,400 New York boaters pledged to be
environmentally-sound after visiting the 2010 Discover Clean and Safe
Boating exhibit at events throughout the freshwater shoreline region. The
2011 edition of the campaign includes a fishing boat, a canoe, and national
Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers information on how boaters can reduce the spread of
unwanted invasive species.
 
The VHS (Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia) virus combined research-outreach
collaboration by NYSG Fisheries Specialist Dave MacNeill and Cornell
University researcher Dr. Paul Bowser earned the first-ever National Sea
Grant Research Application Award.
 
Project work in New York¹s marine coastal district included:
·      Advancing Effective Stormwater Management
·      Helping Local Leaders Understand Hudson River Shoreline Environments
·      I FISH NY: Sharing Fishing Facts & Fun in New York City and on Long
Island
·      New York Commercial Fishing Fleet Safety-At-Sea Training
·      Helping Coastal Managers Respond to Nor¹easters
·      Revising the Long Island Sound Study Website, and
·      Strengthening Partnerships with Marine Educators.

Project work in New York¹s Great Lakes district included:
·      Developing Educational Materials for NY¹s Eastern Lake Ontario Region
·      the 2010 Discover Clean & Safe Boating campaign
·      Assisting the Czech Republic¹s Development of a Reservoir Trawling
Program
·      Training Extension & Agency Educators in Climate Literacy
·      Preventing and Containing VHS in Aquaculture Operations, and
·      Teaching the Next Generation of Concerned Citizens.
 
The full complement of 2010 NYSG Impact Statements is online at
http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/article.asp?ArticleID=116 .

New York Sea Grant (NYSG) is part of a nationwide network of 32
university-based programs that work with coastal communities. The National
Sea Grant College Program engages this network of the nation¹s top
universities in conducting scientific research, education, training and
extension projects designed to foster science-based decisions about the use
and conservation of our aquatic resources. Follow NYSG activities and
initiatives online: www.nyseagrant.org <http://www.nyseagrant.org> ,
www.facebook.com/nyseagrant <http://www.facebook.com/nyseagrant> ,
http://twitter.com/nyseagrant. #

2010 NYSG project funders and partners included (in alphabetical order):
·      Alaska Marine Safety Education Association-trained instructors
·       Baisley Pond Park area civic organizations
·       Boating Industries Association of Upstate New York
·       Buffalo Museum of Science
·       Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence Great Lakes
·       Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County Marine Program
·       Cornell University Aquatic Animal Health Program
·       Girl Scouts of America
·       Great Lakes Seaway Trail
·       Hudson River Research Reserve
·       Inlet Seafood Packing House, Montauk, NY
·       Lake Champlain Sea Grant
·       Little Red Lighthouse Festival
·       Long Island Occupational and Environmental Health Center
·       Memorial University of Newfoundland
·       Morgan Recreational Supply
·       National Science Foundation
·       National Sea Grant College Program
·       National Sea Grant Law Center
·       New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health
·       New York State: Department of Environmental Conservation: Coastal
Resources and Hudson River Estuary programs; Department of State;
Environmental Facilities Corporation; Office of Parks, Recreation and
Historic Preservation
·      New York State Marine Education Association
·      New York State Tug Hill Commission
·       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
·      NOAA Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Initiative
·       NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Change Center at Cornell University
·      Oswego County: BOCES, and Soil and Water Conservation District
·       Pace University
·       Peconic Estuary Program
·       Pennsylvania Sea Grant
·       Rhode Island Sea Grant
·       Sailboat Shop, Skaneateles
·       SUNY University at Buffalo
·       The Nature Conservancy
·       Taylor Made Products
·       Town of Brookhaven
·       US Coast Guard
·       USDA National Integrated Food Safety Initiative
·       Western Suffolk BOCES Marine Studies Enrichment Program. 

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