Register Now for 25th Annual LIS Citizens Summit

save the date citizens summit cropRegistration for the Historic 25th Annual Long Island Sound Citizens Summit is now open! The Summit will be held on Friday, June 3rd at Stony Brook University’s Student Activities Center.

The 25th Annual Long Island Sound Citizens Summit will focus on the very citizens who are taking action to protect the Sound. We will celebrate their efforts, roll out new innovative tools for understanding the Sound’s health, and dedicate an entire afternoon of workshops to citizen science monitoring, data analysis, and communicating science with clarity and impact.

NEW THIS YEAR! High school and college student poster session during the 9:00-9:30am Registration and 10:40-10:55am Networking Break. If you are interested in presenting a poster of your Long Island Sound citizen science project, you and a chaperone can attend for free (NOTE: If you plan to stay for lunch, there is a $20 charge for students and $30 charge for adults until April 15th). If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact Brittany Chamberlin-Martin at bchamberlin-martin@savethesound.org.

For more information and to register, visit: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ecdmlnuk4bc2704d&llr=vpnrezcab (Early registration rates end on April 15th.)

This year’s Citizens Summit is being organized by Save the Sound, Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Long Island Sound Study, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.