Sound Health 2012

Find meanings of terms in the [intlink id=”glossary” type=”page”]glossary[/intlink].

Inside the Long Island Sound Food Web

The cover photo of a snowy egret eating an American eel is an example of the feeding  interactions that take place in the Sound. Here, one large migratory animal feeds on a smaller one at a saltwater pond in Long Island’s North Shore.  LISS’s website shows a simplified[intlink id=”inside-the-long-island-sound-food-web” type=”post”] illustration[/intlink] of  how the Long Island Sound food web works.

Hypoxia + Nutrients

• [intlink id=”hypoxia-poster” type=”post”]What is Hypoxia? poster[/intlink]
• [intlink id=”hypoxic-dead-zones” type=”post”]What’s a Dead Zone video[/intlink]
• UN report on hypoxia and nutrient reduction
• Long Island Sound water quality monitoring program
• [intlink id=”monitoring-the-sound-slideshow” type=”post”]Monitoring the Sound slideshow[/intlink]
• Calculate your nitrogen footprint
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Conditions By Basin

• National Coastal Condition Reports
• Long Island Sound water quality monitoring program
• UConn’s Long Island Sound Coastal Observatory
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Coastal Debris

• 2012 EPA Floatables Action Plan
• International Coastal Cleanup 2012 debris data release
  
• American Littoral Society New York State beach cleanup program
• Save the Sound Connecticut beach cleanup program
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Shellfish

• Fish Trawl Survey report
• CT Department of Aquaculture Shellfish Program
• [intlink id=”project-limulus-horseshoe-crab-monitoring” type=”post”]Project Limulus Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Program slideshow[/intlink]
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Coastal Birds

• [intlink id=”birds-of-long-island-sound” type=”post”]Birds of Long Island Sound[/intlink]
• [intlink id=”winter-birds-and-climate-change” type=”post”]Climate change and winter bird populations[/intlink]
• [intlink id=”colonial-waterbirds” type=”post”]LISS colonial waterbird indicator[/intlink]
• New York City Audubon Western Long Island Sound project website
• NYSDEC bird species fact sheets

Land and People

• UConn CLEAR’s Connecticut and Long Island Sound’s changing landscape website
• EPA “Surf Your Watershed” website
• Center for Watershed Protection report on impervious cover on aquatic systems
• [intlink id=”public-perception-survey-of-long-island-sound-watershed-residents” type=”post”]Public perception survey of Long Island Sound residents[/intlink]
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• [intlink id=”stewardship” type=”page”]Long Island Sound Stewardship Initiative sites[/intlink]