(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) is one of four programs selected to receive federal funding for a special NOAA Sea Grant initiative supporting community climate adaptation. The 2013 Community Climate Adaptation Initiative was developed by the NOAA National Sea Grant program to support projects that will help prepare for current and predicted impacts of climate variability and change on America’s coastal communities. Priority was placed on projects that best identified and addressed the vulnerabilities a coastal community may face adapting to climate change and would produce demonstrable outcomes by the end of the project period. The projects also had to involve active partnership with local (county or municipal) leadership, and include cooperation with relevant state, NOAA, and other Federal agencies, or other appropriate organizations.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) is hoping to raise some clams through a newly created web-site: http://www.gofundme.com/StewTweed-Scholarship to help sustain its Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarship Fund. The scholarship fund was established in 2007 in memory of Stew Tweed, a highly respected former 27-year veteran of the organization’s marine advisory program. Two annual scholarships have become a reliable competitive resource for students who plan to continue their studies in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture.
Believe it or not many students, teachers, administrators and parents from the Ripley, Ohio school district will get their first glimpse of the Atlantic Ocean as part of a special week-long program coordinated by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) and research scientists.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) has announced and awarded the sixth pair of its Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarships, established in 2008 in memory of Stew Tweed, a 27-year veteran of the New Jersey Sea Grant Marine Extension Service, who passed away in early 2007. The scholarship checks were presented by Congressman Frank Pallone (D-6th District) during a special ceremony during Ocean Fun Days at the NJSGC’s headquarters at Sandy Hook on Sunday, June 9th, 2013. Also on hand for the presentation were Stew’s wife Gail and granddaughter Katie Pantelione.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ-6th District) will be at Sandy Hook’s Historic Fort Hancock District at 12:15 pm on Sunday June 9th, 2013 for a special presentation of the 2013 Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarships during Ocean Fun Days an annual education-oriented ecotourism event coordinated by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) which also sponsors the Stew Tweed Scholarship competition.
The National Weather Service (NWS), New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC), and the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) will discuss the increasing need for rip current awareness, new pilot programs, and what beachgoers can do to ensure safe swimming this post-Sandy summer.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — Ocean Fun Days will offer two days of free, family-oriented activities with an environmental and educational focus at Island Beach State Park on Saturday June 8th and Sandy Hook on Sunday June 9th. For the tenth consecutive year, this popular pre-summer event will feature eco-friendly hands-on programs and special activities that help explore and celebrate the wonders of the Jersey Shore. Drag a seine net, go on a guided beach hike, learn about seaside birds and much more at Ocean Fun Days. Both Ocean Fun Day locations were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy but have been restored and recently reopened to the public. As a result, event organizers are expecting record crowds this year.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — Sentimental beach lovers have until April 28th, to cast their photo votes and share their favorite Jersey Shore memories at www.njtoptenbeaches.org. The creators of the popular NJ Top Ten Beaches annual survey and tourism leaders from Sandy Hook to Cape May have teamed up to focus on a different angle for this year’s project by asking visitors to the web site to vote for a favorite photo and share a favorite shore memory that will help create a special limited-edition Making More Shore Memories calendar.
This symposium is designed to provide state and local decision-makers with information about legal and policy analyses that support the implementation of regional ocean planning in the Mid-Atlantic, from New York to Virginia. It will help identify innovative and practical legal and policy solutions to critical challenges. Key issues to be explored include multi-use ocean management, offshore alternative energy, habitats, fisheries, and living marine resources.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC), which recently returned to its Building #22 home base at Fort Hancock in Sandy Hook, is ready to launch into a full-service schedule of field trips and other education programs. The organization had been conducting a series of off-site and in-school programs while their Fort Hancock headquarters and the Sandy Hook field trip locations underwent restoration and repair in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.