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Research & Monitoring
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LISS Ecosystem Targets and Supporting Indicators
- Clean Waters and Healthy Watersheds
- Extent of Hypoxia
- Nitrogen Loading
- Water Clarity
- Impervious Cover
- Riparian Buffer Extent
- Approved Shellfish Areas
- Sediment Quality Improvement
- Industrial Chemical Discharges (TRI data – Total LIS watershed and CT and NY portion of watershed)
- Duration of Hypoxia
- Severely Hypoxic and Anoxic Areas
- Water Quality Index
- Climate Change
- Sustainable and Resilient Communities
- Thriving Habitats and Abundant Wildlife
- Changes in Forest Cover in CT & NY
- Coastal Habitat Extent
- Eelgrass Extent
- Tidal Wetland Extent
- River Miles Restored for Fish Passage
- Shellfish Harvested
- Habitat Connectivity
- Protected Open Space
- Index of Anadromous Fish Runs
- Herring Runs at Streams with Upstream Planned Fishway Projects
- Horseshoe Crab Abundance
- Lobster Abundance
- Forage Fish – Open Water/NY and CT Coastlines
- Finfish Biomass Index/Species Richness
- Game Fish
- Shad & Blueback Herring—Long Island Sound
- Least Terns
- Piping Plovers
- Clean Waters and Healthy Watersheds
- Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM)
- Sentinel Monitoring for Climate Change
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Plants, Fish and Wildlife Monitoring
- Seafloor Mapping
- LISS Research Grant Program
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- 2006 Research Project Descriptions
- 2004 Research Project Descriptions
- 2002 Research Project Descriptions
- 2000 Research Project Descriptions
- Long Island Sound Research Programs Around the Sound
- River and Stream Bank (Riparian) Restoration Toolbox
Status and Trends: LISS Environmental Indicators
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Open Space
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