Every 6th grade student at King Low Heywood Thomas is engaged in a rigorous, hands-on year long environmental science and service learning program with SoundWaters. Using scientific field equipment all students have performed water quality experiments including turbidity, soil filtration and analysis of samples to determine clarity, pH levels and flow rate. Students also learned what animals […]
SoundKids students determine which objects are living or non-living, sink or float and what form and function is all about in the SoundWaters multi-week science program.
Great day in the field! SoundWaters educators led every 7th grade Old Saybrook Middle School student through watershed science. Students collected & analyzed soil cores, sick tested water samples for pH and salinity levels, immersed themselves into environmental cleanup challenges and live animals from Long Island Sound including diamondback terrapins, sea stars, flounder, mussels and […]
A heartfelt thanks goes out to the captain and crew of the schooner SoundWaters for another successful season!
Business & Environment Lunch Series: Creating sustainable communities. Click here.
Still digging out from Sandy. Good news is that everyone is safe and sound. Bad news is that the Center took a big hit, and we have lost a great deal of educational and safety gear. More updates to come later this week. Article from the Stamford Advocate about the cleanup
A little rain won’t dampen the Flood Middle school students spirits!
SoundWaters educators headed to Bridgeport for a program with St. Augustine middle school students at Seaside Park. We had a gorgeous day to explore the Long Island Sound ecosystem and its food web. The 6th, 7th, and 8th graders had a great time seining, fishing for plankton, learning about the animals, and taking data about […]
Westhill High school students compared benthic mud samples from inside and outside Stamford harbor. The sample inside the harbor had some polychetes (i.e. clam worms) in the sulfurous based mud. In the sample from outside the Stamford breakwater, the benthic grab pulled up slipper snails, small crabs and polychetes. Science in action.
Have you ever found what you thought was a dead crab on the beach? There is an easy way to tell if it’s dead or just an exoskeleton (a shedding). One of our spider crabs molted recently and left behind its old shell. The molt is hollow inside and the new crab is softer and […]
