GLIN==> Press release: New York Sea Grant names Penney as Coastal Community Development Specialist

PRESS RELEASE: March 24, 2011
Contact: Mary Penney, New York Sea Grant, 315-312-3042
Jpg available:  New York Sea Grant Coastal Community Development Specialist
Mary Penney
Release is online at:
http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/lodune/article.asp?ArticleID=611
 
New York Sea Grant Names Penney as Coastal Community Development Specialist
 
Oswego, NY ­ New York Sea Grant, Oswego, NY, has announced that Mary Penney
will serve in the role of Great Lakes Coastal Community Development
Specialist for the science-based extension program.
 
Penney is currently undertaking a community-driven needs assessment survey
to help local decisionmakers identify priority issues and will work with
community leaders to respond to the issues of the Eastern Lake Ontario
region and its tributaries, including the Salmon River.
 
New York Sea Grant is known for facilitating community decisionmaking on
diverse issues. Penney will assist local leaders interested in land use
planning, watershed protection, science-based sustainable renewable energy
discussions, and managing climate change impacts. Penney will also be
developing local volunteerism opportunities and will supervise a team of
coastal natural resource educators.
 
New York Sea Grant Interim Associate Director Helen Domske, Buffalo, NY
said, ³We are pleased to have Mary Penney available to help our coastal
communities, especially rural towns and villages that may find the resources
that New York Sea Grant can provide particularly beneficial to assist their
planning and decision making.²
 
Penney has been an educator with New York Sea Grant since 2006. She can be
reached at New York Sea Grant, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126, 315-312-3042.

New York Sea Grant 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.

For updates on NYSG¹s activities and initiatives in New York¹s Great Lakes
and marine waters, check out our Web site, www.nyseagrant.org
<http://www.nyseagrant.org> , ³like² us on Facebook (keyword: New York Sea
Grant) and follow us on Twitter (@nyseagrant). #
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