Photo of the Month « Long Island Sound Study

May 2012

New video asks Long Islanders where they get their drinking water from, and explores the challenges of protecting a water supply for 2.8 million people. View Photo

April 2012

Butterfly Magnet: This purple flower, Liatris, the New England blazing star, grows in coastal grasslands. Photograph by Juliana Barrett. View Photo

March 2012

A preschooler at SoundWaters in Stamford is fascinated by a diamondback terrapin. View Photo

February 2012

Natural dunes at Long Beach West where there used to be 42 dilapidated cottages

Long Beach West in Stratford, CT where there used to be 42 dilapidated cottages. View Photo

January 2012

Kayak's Eye View of Tropical Storm Irene Flooding, Rye, New York View Photo

December 2011

Students from Hauppauge High School's Advanced Placement Environmental Science class learn about the beach and dune ecosystems at Sunken Meadow State Park. Photo taken by Heather Young, NYS DEC. Dec. 2, 2010

Happauge High School students learning beach and dune ecosystems. View Photo

November 2011

Rocking the Boat, a Bronx-based boatbuilding and environmental education youth development organization, Lillian Ball, an internationally acclaimed ecological aritist, and ABC Carpet and Home, worked together to build a green infrastructure project that includes 10,000 square feet of wetland and grassland along the Bronx River in the Bronx. The project was by the New York State Office of the Attorney General through the Bronx River Watershed Initiative. See WATERWASH ABC Media Advisory for more information. photo by Joaquin Cotten.

A view of a new wetland along the Bronx River in the Bronx. View Photo

October 2011

Charles Yarish, a marine biologist from Universiity of Connecticut, second from left, is leading a team pull Gracilaria, a seaweed, attached on lines, off Bridgeport Harbor on Sept. 15, 2011.

Bioharvesting: Researchers are cultivating seaweed and mussels as part of pilot projects to remove nutrients. View Photo

September 2011

Boat Building: students from Rocking the Boat build boats that will be used for environmental programs on the Bronx and East rivers. View Photo

August 2011

A park visitor reads an interpretative sign at the Barn Island Wildlife Management Area, a Long Island Sound Stewardship site in Stonington, CT.

Barn Island Wildlife Management Area, Stonington, CT View Photo

July 2011

Students learn about water monitoring at the Coastal Classroom program in Hallets Cove, Queens. View Photo

June 2011

A bayman clamming at newly opened Hempstead Harbor Shellfishing grounds. View Photo

May 2011

A man waves at kayakers at Kayak for a Cause in Norwalk. View Photo

April 2011

Udalls Cove is an inlet of Little Neck Bay, part of Long Island Sound, between the Douglaston and Great Neck peninsulas. At the head of the Cove (its southern end) is a large and healthy salt water marsh. Behind that, Aurora Pond lies at the center of freshwater wetlands, bounded by steep, wooded slopes. Photo by Walter Mugdan

Udalls Cove, between the Douglaston and Great Neck peninsulas. View Photo

March 2011

The four bearded rockling in a rocky seafloor habitat in western Long Island Sound. The fish gets its name from the four whisker-like organs beneath its head. The photo by Robert Bachand appears in the Sound Health 2010 report.

The four-bearded rockling in a rocky seafloor habitat in western Long Island Sound. View Photo

February 2011

Winter on Manhassett Bay. Photo by Jennifer Wilson-Pines View Photo

January 2011

A glaucous gull resting on a snow-filled beach at Long Beach in Stratford, CT. Glaucous Gull sighting are pretty rare in the Long Island Sound region. Photo by Patrick M. Comins, Audubon Connecticut.

A glaucous gull at Long Beach in Stratford, CT. View Photo

December 2010

Salt marsh in winter, North Cove, Old Saybrook, CT. photo by Judy Preston.

Salt marsh in winter View Photo

November 2010

Watch a video about the Long Island Sound View Photo

October 2010

Volunteers from across Long Island Sound, including this volunteer at Riverside Park in Saugatuck, CT, picked up trash in coastal beaches and parks in the last weekend of September for the 30th annual International Coastal Cleanup Day. Photo courtesy of Save the Sound.

Volunteer picks up trash at riverside cleanup in Westport. Photo courtesy of Save the Sound. View Photo

September 2010

Two boys fishing at Holly Pond in Stamford when the incoming tide is even with the dam so it looks like the boys fishing are standing on water. Photo by Dan Taylor.

Two boys fishing at Holly Pond in Stamford. View Photo

August 2010

Connecticut DEP wetland restoration specialist (right) with interns monitoring a wetlands restoration site at Great Island, town of Old Lyme, CT, a Long Island Sound Stewardship area. Photo by Judy Preston

A wetlands restoration project along the Connecticut River. View Photo

July 2010

Stamford MS student tests stream flow rate in Mianus River - horizontal

Stamford MS student tests stream flow rate in Mianus River View Photo

June 2010

Bottlenose dolphins made a welcome appearance in Long Island Sound in summer 2009. (Photo by Noah Goldberg, SEATOW Western) View Photo