Sound Update
Spring 08 Impacts of Climate Change on LIS
April 12, 2008 — Estuaries like Long Island Sound (LIS) face multiple stressors from industrialization, a concentrated coastal populace, coastal development, and myriad commercial and recreational activities. While the estuarine environment is, by nature, variable and changing, necessitating inhabitant resiliency, climate change is very likely, among other effects, to affect the distribution and interaction of native estuarine organisms, especially [...] Continue Reading
Fall 07 Nitrogen Trends in LIS
September 12, 2007 — Long Island Sound has a large and highly developed watershed. Nitrogen contributions from the watershed, combined with strong summer thermal stratifi cation in its western half, render Long Island Sound susceptible to seasonal low dissolved oxygen levels (hypoxia). Since 1985, the causes and effects of hypoxia have been the subject of intensive monitoring, modeling, and [...] Continue Reading
Spring 07 Public Outreach Around the Sound
April 12, 2007 — It is a beautiful sunny morning in July, and at Hammonasset State Park thirty New Haven youth are knee-deep in the Long Island Sound. They are not your usual skim-boarding, sun-bathing set. “I found a blue mussel!” someone exclaims. From down the beach comes a yell — “Is this what Irish Moss looks like?” They [...] Continue Reading
Fall 06 Stewardship Newsletter
September 12, 2006 — The Long Island Sound Study’s (LISS) Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) calls for the conservation of natural resources and increased public access to the Sound. LISS began implementing the CCMP in 1994, and considerable progress has been made in improving the Sound’s water quality over the past 10 years. However, critical elements of the [...] Continue Reading
Summer 06 LIS Celebrates 20 Years
June 12, 2006 — According to the 1986 Long Island Sound Study (LISS) Annual Report, we were into our second year of “a five-year project” focusing on three major problems: 1) toxic contamination, 2) low dissolved oxygen concentrations, and 3) the health of fish and shellfish. There was some certainty that toxic contamination would be the predominant water quality [...] Continue Reading
Spring 05 Sound Update
April 12, 2005 — A proposal to moor a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import terminal in the middle of Long Island Sound has people talking, and rightly so. Coming as it does on the heels of the recent Cross Sound electric cable crossing controversy, the proposal touches a few nerves already rubbed raw. Rather than tell you the project [...] Continue Reading
Summer/Fall 04 Sound Update
September 12, 2004 — To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the demise of cooperation between Connecticut and New York have been greatly exaggerated. At least as evidenced by two recent announcements. The first was the June 24 announcement of a settlement between New York and Connecticut that will result in the re-activation and commercial operation of the Cross-Sound Cable [...] Continue Reading
Spring 04 Sound Update
April 12, 2004 — The Long Island Sound Study Stewardship Initiative is working to identify places along the coast with significant biological, scientific, or recreational value and develop a strategy to protect and enhance those special places. Development of the strategy is a commitment in the Long Island Sound 2003 Agreement. The first phase of work, an inventory of [...] Continue Reading
Summer 03 Public Involvement
August 12, 2003 — This issue of the Sound Update is about public involvement in the Long Island Sound Study, most directly through our Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC). Often touted as a way to make government more responsive to the public will, citizen involvement is a vital part of many government institutions (think of the local school PTA) and [...] Continue Reading
Winter/Spring 03 Sound Update
January 12, 2003 — On December 4, 2002, the Long Island Sound Study Policy Committee met at the Norwalk Aquarium in Connecticut to sign a new Long Island Sound Agreement. The vision for this Agreement is a Long Island Sound restored to ecological health by 2014, the 400th Anniversary of Adrian Block’s Exploration of Long Island Sound. How do [...] Continue Reading