(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.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — To accommodate students and schools displaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) has extended the deadline for its Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarships. Applicants to the competitive scholarship program now have until Friday, April 12 to submit application materials.
The merit-based scholarship program, now in its sixth year, provides financial assistance to graduating high school students and undergraduate or graduate students who intend to pursue studies or a career in the fields of fisheries and/or aquaculture. The scholarship amounts, which were increased last fall, award $1,500 to a graduating high school senior and $2,000 to an undergraduate or graduate student who demonstrates an interest in and commitment to research and/or applied research topics in fisheries and aquaculture.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — Superstorm Sandy is the theme for this year’s Ocean Fun Days Science Fair scheduled for June 8th at Island Beach State Park and Sandy Hook on June 9th. The competition, open to 3rd through 6th grade students from Monmouth and Ocean Counties has become one of the most popular components of Ocean Fun Days, a family oriented, educational celebration that features exhibits, classes, nature tours, and children’s activities all about New Jersey’s coastal environment. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Ocean Fun Days, a cooperative project of founding partner New Jersey Natural Gas, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, the NJDEP, the NJ Division of Parks and Forestry and NOAA.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — Despite the devastating blows Sandy dealt many beach communities last fall, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) is coordinating a cooperative effort among regional tourism leaders that will put a non-competitive focus on its popular, annual New Jersey’s Top Ten Beaches project to help promote Shore tourism for the summer of 2013.
In 2008, the New Jersey’s Top Ten Beaches Survey was created by NJSGC and the Richard Stockton College Coastal Research Center to encourage stewardship and pride in the state’s beaches while promoting a little healthy competition among New Jersey’s favorite beach towns. The voting traditionally opens up on the New Jersey Top Ten beaches web site in mid- to late February and continues through the end of April. The results of the survey are announced each year just before Memorial Day weekend at the NJSGC’s State of the Shore Media Event, a premier gathering of coastal experts, State officials, and members of the news media, to kick off the Jersey Shore summer.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) has issued an all hands call for students with an interest in fisheries and aquaculture to apply for its 2013 Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarships. The scholarship program awards two scholarships annually to a graduating high school senior ($1,500) and an undergraduate/graduate student ($2,000) pursuing studies or an outstanding research or technology project focusing on fisheries or aquaculture.