SoundKids are making new discoveries! Maple Avenue Pre-School children learned all about our favorite Diamond Back Terrapin, Cony this week. They discovered how special the Diamond Back Terrapin is, due to the fact that this is the only turtle that can live its’ entire life in brackish water. The SoundKids at Maple Avenue were able to meet […]
Do you know what the word brackish means? The preschoolers of Stamford do! This week SoundKids have started to explore Long Island Sound. SoundKids is SoundWaters Preschool science exploration program. During this multi-week program, SoundWaters educators will be visiting 12 classrooms in 5 schools, using live animals, science, and art to learn all about Long Island Sound. This […]
The Schooner frame cover was completed on Friday.
A special thanks to the 25 volunteers from Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide who made a difference at SoundWaters on Wednesday! SoundWaters benefited from the generosity of Starwood who lent us time,energy and hands-on muscle power to close down our waterfront for the season. Starwood volunteers scrubbed, removed old decals, and prepared the Optis for the winter […]
The spider crabs are molting in the SoundWaters aquarium! Spider crabs contain an exoskeleton that protects them from predators. As they grow, the exoskeleton becomes too tight and they have to molt. This is when a spider crab climbs out of its hard exoskeleton and grows a larger one. Depending on the age of the crab, they can go 2 […]
With the mast’s pulled yesterday, the schooner SoundWaters was hauled out of the water today capping off a great 2014 season with: 1728nm traveled, 256 programs, and nearly 7,900 passengers. Now we will be busy putting the boat to bed for winter.
We had a great Science on the Sound Sail with the students from the Cathedral Academy in Bridgeport. Thanks to Greenwich Aviation for the fantastic aerial photograph.
Rippowam Middle School of Stamford, Connecticut paid a visit to SoundWaters for a day of exploring and hands-on learning. The 6th grade students performed water quality experiments, used seine nets to catch animals along the shores of Long Island Sound, learned the morphology of local live animals, including horseshoe crabs, sea stars, oyster toad fish, and explored Holly […]
We picked up not 1 but 2 large tautog in the trawl today with the students from the St James School.
83 volunteers picked up a total of 229 pounds of trash during yesterday’s Coastal Cleanup at SoundWaters. The top three items volunteers picked up at the park: nearly 1, 500 bottle caps (plastic and metal), over 900 food wrappers and over 800 cigarette butts, among many other items. Photo: Members of the Westhill High School […]
