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Learn what a new analysis of the nutritional benefits and potential health concerns of farmed sugar kelp shows in the new fact sheet: https://seagrant.uconn.edu/?p=14447

Mark you calendars for this June 11 webinar! Register at: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/iOrblr_ETSqRcdMZt6hD7A#/registration
For more information, email Kathleen Fallon: kmf228@cornell.edu

This Sunday May 17, Join Mystic Aquarium and the Long Island Sound Partnership in a pre-summer cleanup of Barn Island Wildlife Management Area, including its busy boat launch! Noon-2:30 p.m. 249 Palmer Neck Road, Stonington. Register: https://ramp.mysticaquarium.org/94854/95066

Registration deadline for the 2026 Long Island Sound Research Conference in Mystic, CT is just six days away!! Registration and information at: https://lispartnership.org/.../2026-research-conference/

Students from Six to Six Magnet School and Adam J. Lewis Academy in Bridgeport learn about the oyster beds in Ash Creek, which flows between Bridgeport and Fairfield, during a field trip on May 8. Big thanks to the Mill River Wetland Committee and the Fairfield Shellfish Commission for making this happen!!

Students from Six to Six Magnet School and Adam J. Lewis Academy in Bridgeport learn about the oyster beds in Ash Creek, which flows between Bridgeport and Fairfield, during a field trip on May 8. Big thanks to the Mill River Wetland Committee and the Fairfield Shellfish Commission for making this happen!!

Great teacher workshop coming this summer! July 22, Danbury High School. Download the flyer with agenda: https://seagrant.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1985/2026/05/Wandering.With_.Water_.pdf

Great teacher workshop coming this summer! July 22, Danbury High School. Download the flyer with agenda: https://seagrant.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1985/2026/05/Wandering.With_.Water_.pdf

Visitors to the Connecticut Sea Grant table at the Thames River Heritage Park Partner Fair on Saturday at Fort Trumbull State Park colored Long Island Sound pledges and received wildlife stickers, magazines and other items.

Visitors to the Connecticut Sea Grant table at the Thames River Heritage Park Partner Fair on Saturday at Fort Trumbull State Park colored Long Island Sound pledges and received wildlife stickers, magazines and other items.

April 2026 Sustainable & Resilient Communities newsletters are here!
Eastern CT: https://seagrant.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1985/2026/04/SRC.newsletter.ECT_.April2026.pdf
Western CT: https://seagrant.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1985/2026/04/SRC.newsletter.WCT_.April2026.pdf

KELP FEST continues with "History of Working Waterfronts & Marine Environments in Southeastern CT" lecture by Prof. Matthew McKenzie at the Manor House at Stone Acres Farm, 393 N. Main St., Stonington, at 5:30 on April 30. Register: yellowfarmhouse.org

TONIGHT!!! Join us for the CT Sea Grant-sponsored final lecture in Thames River Heritage Park "Freedom: The Victories, Promises and Potentials of 1776" series looking at the role of our premier natural resource-Long Island Sound-in our history! Get tickets: ThamesRiverHeritagePark.org/Lecture-Series

Stop by the CT Sea Grant table at the Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed Springfest 2026 this Saturday! Help celebrate the River Herring (Seeqanamahs) Return!
RSVP: www.alliancemrw.org

THIS WEDNESDAY - final lecture in Thames River Heritage Park "Freedom: The Victories, Promises and Potentials of 1776" series looks at the role of our premier natural resource -- Long Island Sound -- in hour history! Get tickets: ThamesRiverHeritagePark.org/Lecture-Series