Dec. 4 Green Towns
Business & Environment Lunch Series: Creating sustainable communities. Click here.
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Sandy
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
Sailing today with Flood Middle School
A little rain won’t dampen the Flood Middle school students spirits!
St. Augustine students learn science by doing science
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 […]
Comparing mud in inside and outside of Stamford Harbor
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.
How do you know if it’s an exoskeleton?
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 […]
Kensico 5th graders haul in 3 squid in the trawl net today
We also caught a puffer fish, a horseshoe crab and a bunch of scup. Not too shabby for a 10 minute trawl in the wind and rain.
Cookie Thomas Returns Oct. 12
Cookie Thomas, a favorite among SoundWaters audiences and one of the region’s most well-known performers performs at the Coastal Center on Oct. 23 with Bill Conway on bass, Joe McWilliams on piano and Bobby Leonard on drums. Seating is limited. To reserve: Click here
Business and the Environment: Sustainable Air Travel
This evening’s inclement weather did not keep us grounded as we learned about sustainable air travel. Special thanks to our keynote speaker Helen Howes of Delta and our great partners at UBS: SoundWaters board members Cheryl Lytton-Smith and Jim Poucher and Business and the Environment Committee members Anna-Marie Francello and Theresa Owens.
Bethel High School JROTC students aboard the Schooner Soundwaters
The juniors from Bethel High School NAVY JROTC program came aboard today and learned to set and strike the sails as well as navigating and steering the 80′ schooner. In the afternoon the students were tacking and gybing the boat by themselves.
