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Sea Grant Spotlights Youth-Focused Jones Beach Marine Camp
Recent Marine Camp, featured in Sea Grant's latest NY Coastlines e-newsletter, provides kids with interactive learning experiences
Wantagh, NY, August 16, 2021 — For the past several weeks, the youth have been the focus of the 3rd Annual Marine Summer Camp at Jones Beach. Media coverage of late last month's launch event — held at the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center and coordinated by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County, in conjunction with New York State Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, New York Sea Grant (NYSG) — included Patch as well as The Long Island Herald.
Details on this year's marine camp were included in the "Currents" section of NYSG's Summer 2021 newsletter, NY Coastlines, out today. E-subscriptions can be made to receive this issue now at www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines.
Other highlights from the e-newsletter:
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(a) Sea Grant's "#BEachSAFEly" campaign, now in its second season, is the recent recipient of a second "Public Awareness Campaign" Award. Offered via this summer-long campaign are both standard "ocean hazards" tips as well as general safety and health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(b) NYSG-funded investigators at Hofstra University have created a video game simulation to teach beachgoers the hazards of rip currents—narrow channels of fast-moving water that can challenge even skilled swimmers. Also, you're invited to participate in a survey and game to help us learn about people’s understanding of beach hazards.
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(b) Three new extension specialists and a new communications specialist have joined in NYSG’s mission of "Bringing Science to the Shore" statewide.
(c) Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are a concern statewide, sometimes for different reasons and in varying degrees of severity. Learn more on the latest science, how you can spot HABs and what you can do to report it.
(d) A handful of partner, and national news items, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s revised its "active" outlook for the current Atlantic hurricane season, saying earlier this month that it shows no signs of slowing.
Since 1971, New York Sea Grant, a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York, has been one of 34 university-based programs under NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program. More at www.nyseagrant.org.
