Sustainable and Resilient Communities Work Group

Purpose

The Sustainable and Resilient Communities Work Group (SRC) was established to help advance progress on select objectives and implementation actions of the LISS CCMP Theme 3, Sustainable and Resilient Communities.

Objectives and Goals

The work of the SRC Work Group is guided by a five-year work plan based around achieving:

1. Better coordinated regional response
2. Better trained community decision makers
3. Infrastructure improvements planning
4. Viability of government services
5. Facilitated implementation

In late 2021, five SRC Extension Professionals were hired by the Connecticut and New York Sea Grant Programs to implement the interlinked activities as defined in the work plan in order to realize the above outcomes. 

Work Group Chairs

Co-chairs

Rebecca (Becky) Shuford, PhD, New York Sea Grant
rebecca.shuford@stonybrook.edu

Sylvain De Guise, PhD, Connecticut Sea Grant
sylvain.deguise@uconn.edu

SRC Extension Professionals

• Deb Visco-Abibou, Connecticut Sea Grant (Western CT)
• Sarah Schaefer-Brown, New York Sea Grant (Nassau County, NY)
• Elizabeth Hornstein, New York Sea Grant (Suffolk County, NY)
• Sara Powell, New York Sea Grant (Westchester County, NY)
• Sarah Schechter, Connecticut Sea Grant (Eastern CT)
• Ben Goldberg, New York Sea Grant (NYC – Bronx and Queens, NY)