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Academia to Government

Sea Grant Announces the 2024 Class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program. The 85 early-career professionals selected will be placed in federal government offices throughout Washington, D.C., and join the over 1,600 individuals who have participated in the program since its inception in 1979.

September 15, 2023

New York

New York Sea Grant Advances the Control of a Foodborne Pathogen on Cold Smoked Salmon

Michael Ciaramella works with New York’s seafood industry, regulatory agencies and food and nutrition professionals on issues related to seafood safety, quality and marketing. Photo

April 24, 2022

New York

New York Coastal Resilience Law and Policy Fellows assemble resources to help communities

New York Sea Grant (NYSG) received two Legal Capacity Building grants from the National Sea Grant Law Center to explore the creation of a New

April 14, 2022

Coastal Hazards Preparedness

Sea Grant’s Helen Cheng helps New York City communities better prepare for hurricanes

Paul C. Focazio, New York Sea Grant Five years post-Sandy, Helen Cheng says the superstorm “still looms in the memories of our stakeholders, but I’m

September 27, 2017

Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Graduate Education: Through a Sea Grant Fellowship, Shark-Obsessed Teen Becomes the Expert

“I was always obsessed with sharks,” says Sagarese, who would find skate and dogfish (mud shark) carcasses as a kid and take them home for science experiments. “My mom loved keeping them in the freezer!

August 26, 2016

Extension

National Seafood Month: New York Sea Grant Catches a New Seafood Safety and Technology Specialist

” I am focusing on identifying needs in the areas of outreach and education, as well as the production, safety, sustainability and marketability of seafood.”

October 2, 2015

Climate

Are We Ready for the Next Hurricane?

A symposium at Hofstra University was held to share a NOAA Coastal Storm Awareness Program-funded project that explored the cultural and language barriers that may have hindered evacuation efforts in Long Beach, NY.

July 10, 2015

Education

Hurricane Preparedness Week: Public Listening Sessions to Help Create First-Ever Climatology Resource for Lake Ontario

New York Sea Grant is asking people along Lake Ontario and North Sandy Pond to share stories and photos of storm events to help local communities better assess risk, build storm resiliency, and reduce future storm damage and recovery expenses.

May 20, 2015

Education

Safe Boating Week: New York Sea Grant Offers Clean and Safe Boating Tips for 2015

With the summer season fast approaching, New York Sea Grant offers safe boating tips and gives a sneak peak at its related campaign, which, now in its ninth season, has reached over a half-a-million people.

May 7, 2015

NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured the center of a developing Nor'easter located off North Carolina's Outer Banks on Jan. 26

Climate

New York Sea Grant is Tracking â€˜Great Lakes Norâ€™easters’

New York Sea Grant received funding from NOAA's Coastal Storms Program through a Sea Grant competition to study historic storm events along the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. The project will create a climatological event database to better assist risk projection to help communities increase their storm event resiliency.

March 20, 2015

Sandy left areas in NYC in the dark

Education

The Science Behind Sandy, Two Years Later

Experts at New York Sea Grant discuss issues, and potential solutions between communication and the decision process as they relate to extreme weather events.

March 5, 2015

Dogs and water quality

Education

Sea Grant Alerts Millions of U.S. Pet Owners of Potentially Lethal Toxins in NY Waters

Harmful algal blooms or HABs are increasing in many areas and while people may be getting sick, dogs are actually dying. New York Sea Grant has put together informative brochures and fact sheets to help people understand how to keep their beloved pets safe.

September 29, 2014

New York

Spotlight on New York Sea Grant’s Associate Director: Kathy Bunting-Howarth, J.D. Ph.D.

Katherine E. Bunting-Howarth (Kathy) became the Associate Director for New York Sea Grant and an Assistant Director for Cornell Cooperative Extension in April of 2011. She leads a group of talented Extension Associates located in a number of offices along the many diverse coasts of New York State.

September 11, 2014

Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Hurricane Preparedness Week: Spotlight on New York Sea Grant Communications Specialist Paul Focazio

As New York Sea Grant's Web Content Manager, Paul Focazio oversees the development and production of New York Sea Grant's Web site, e-newsletter (Currents) and all social media platforms. The program's virtual presence not only includes downloads of NYSG's Coastlines newsletter, for which Focazio writes, but also features sub-sites for all extension staff and a number of special research and education initiatives.

May 26, 2014

Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Safe Boating Week: Spotlight on Sea Grant Extension Agent David White

David White is the Recreation/Tourism Specialist and Great Lakes Program Coordinator for the New York Sea Grant Extension Program. Dave has been with Sea Grant since November of 1984 and is located at the State University of New York College at Oswego.

May 20, 2014

Hazard Resilient Coastal Communities

Sandy: The Science Behind the Storm

New York Sea Grant provided real-time information on the track, intensity and aftermath of Superstorm Sandy via social media when other outlet lost power. The program's award-winning year-long "science behind the storm" story series and related YouTube clips reached over 14,300 visitors on Facebook alone.

January 31, 2014

Connecticut

NOAA Sea Grant Announces Projects for $1.4M Coastal Storm Awareness Program

Connecticut Sea Grant, New Jersey Sea Grant, and New York Sea Grant have awarded funds totaling $1.4 million to support ten social science research projects to improve community understanding and response to coastal storm hazard information as part of NOAA Sea Grant’s Coastal Storm Awareness Program.

January 16, 2014

Climate

Sea Grant Funds Projects to Improve Public Hazard Response

Nine project were selected from New Jersey, New York and Connecticut Sea Grant Connecticut Sea Grant, New Jersey Sea Grant, and New York Sea Grant have funded

January 10, 2014