Sound Health

 

Sound Health 2008: Audio Clips
 


Naturalist Laurie Sanders

 From June-October 2007, naturalist Laurie Sanders produced eight radio features focusing on the health and diversity of Long Island Sound for her Field Notes program on 88.5 FM WFCR (public radio of western New England). An estimated 200,000 listeners heard the reports on WFCR and on public radio stations in Connecticut.

These six minute reports with scientists, environmentalists for non-profit groups and government resource managers are now available as podcasts on this Web page.

The audio clips are keyed to related content  in the Sound Health report.

Instructions: Click the headphone icon next to the track you would like to listen to. In most instances, left clicking will start the audio file which right clicking will allow you save the file for playback on other devices including Ipods and mp3 players.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 1: Project Limulus team tags and monitors horseshoe crabs in LIS beaches. SH pages 13 and 15.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 2: Biologist Chris Elphick investigates endangered sparrows whose habitat may be threatened by climate change. SH pages 7, 13, and 14.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 3: Ecologist Elizabeth Farnsworth talks about one of her favorite places, Chapman Pond, a freshwater tidal marsh along the Ct River. SH pages 13 and 16.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 4: Crew aboard a Connecticut research vessel monitors the Sound’s water quality for low dissolved oxygen. SH pages 3 and 8.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 5: Jeanette Brown, Stamford’s Wastewater treatment plant director, talks about how to reduce nitrogen nitrogen from wastewater to help improve oxygen levels in the Sound. SH pages 3 and 6.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 6: A CT DEP fisheries biologist discusses how fishways are being built to improve fish migration and how fishways may help restore river herring and American eel populations. SH pages 11 and 13.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 7: Crew aboard a Connecticut research vessel monitors the diversity and health of fish in the Sound. SH pages 10 and 11.
left click to play, right click to save fileTrack 8: Judy Preston of the Tidewater Institute discusses how to protect salt marsh habitats by controlling phragmites, an invasive species. SH pages 7 and 13.

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