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Sea
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The Puerto Rico Sea Grant-sponsored television program, GeoAmbiente, won four Emmys at the Suncoast Chapter’s annual Emmy awards night. GeoAmbiente, which airs weekly on WIPR, Puerto Rico’s PBS affiliate, provides information about the wise use and conservation of coastal and marine resources in Puerto Rico.
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Pacific:
Care Provider Responds to Tsunami Danger Predictions
Sea
Grant extension agents and partners brought together scientists
and citizens to share vital information about earthquakes
and tsunamis. A total of 25 classes were offered. The
350 attendees included local leaders and emergency managers,
builder and realtor associations, critical facilities
planners, human service providers and youth groups. As
a result of Sea Grant's prediction of danger, a director
of several non-profit group care homes for the disabled
adopted a policy to relocate residents to facilities outside
of the tsunami inundation zone. This policy change protects
the residents and staff of the corporation, and indicates
a shift in public behavior from awareness to action. Sea
Grant partnered with Oregon State University faculty researchers,
local emergency managers, the American Red Cross, the
Oregon Emergency Management, the Oregon Department of
Geology and Mineral Industries, and NOAAs National Weather
Service to host the classes.
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Great
Lakes: Sea Grant Researcher Featured on Dirty Jobs
Kristin Stanford, a resident researcher at Ohio State's
Stone Lab on Lake Erie's Gibraltar Island, studies the
endangered Lake Erie water snake. Stanford catches, weighs,
and induces the snakes to vomit, then records their diet.
Stanford was featured in the season premiere of the Discovery
Channel's Dirty Jobs. The snakes are a federally threatened
species found only on the Lake Erie islands. Stanford's
goal is to see the snakes removed from the endangered
species list. "Filming Dirty Jobs was fun," according
to the researcher. Stanford hopes it shows prospective
Stone Lab students how interesting summer research can
be. The lab attracts students each summer from all over
the country to work on supervised, independent research
projects.
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Northeast: Consortium Boosts Local Fishing Economy by $13 million
New Hampshire Sea Grant staff led commercial fishermen as they competed successfully
for $8 million in compensation for their involvement in collaborative research.
NOAA/NMFS funds the Northeast Consortium, a regional partnership of fishermen,
researchers and other stakeholders focused on cooperative research and the development
of selective fishing gear technology. The Northeast Consortium has funded 160
projects in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts, involving over 330 paid and
volunteer fishermen and 180 scientists. According to a regional economic impact
model, the cooperative efforts of the Northeast Consortium have produced $13
million to the local economy, sustaining 140 fishing jobs and 55
jobs in on-shore support industries.
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Mid-Atlantic: NJ Sea Grant Receives Governor's Environmental Award
During a special ceremony in November, the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium (NJMSC) and its New Jersey Sea Grant College Program were recently honored with the 2006 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award. The award, established in 2000 by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, recognizes outstanding environmental performance, programs and projects in the state. NJMSC was selected as the winner of the Healthy Ecosystem Award category for its Habitat Initiative. The project includes significant research, education and outreach that advance the science and practice of restoration ecology, and link habitat restoration to the secondary production of managed species and their forage base. The Initiative’s goals have helped make New Jersey a leader in restoration ecology, and contributed science-based policy for wetland management throughout the coastal United States. More than two dozen participating agencies and organizations contributed to the success of the project.
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Southeast: Sea
Grant Mounts Broad Offensive on Invasive
Species
South
Carolina Sea Grant and partners are addressing the threat
of invasive species through the Winyah Bay Focus Area
Taskforce. The taskforce identified five new major invasive
species: common reed, beach Vitex, giant reed, alligatorweed
and water hyacinth. The taskforce also determined the
geographical extent of the invasive plants; developed
action management plans for control; conducted demonstration
projects to compare specific chemical controls; developed
a cost-share program for landowners to conduct control
programs; and, held symposia on the latest biology and
control information. As a result, several beach-front
communities adopted ordinances to control invasives. In
addition, two species-specific taskforces were formed,
and several taskforces combined into the regional Carolinas
Beach Taskforce. Other Winyah Bay Taskforce members and
Sea Grant partners include Clemson University, the Nature
Conservancy, the South Carolina Department of Natural
Resources, the University of South Carolina, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and private industry and landowners.
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