Sound Spotlight

LISS Meets its Nitrogen Reduction Target

May 4, 2017 —   A major goal of the Long Island Sound Study since the 1980s has been to reduce the negative impacts… Read More

Coastal Grasslands Restoration Project at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve

April 26, 2017 — The photos show the transition from degraded to restored grasslands. Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve, part of the Lloyd Neck Long Island… Read More

Winter Flounder

Scientists Study Climate’s Role on the Impact of the Long Island Sound Fishery

February 1, 2017 — For over a decade scientists and resource managers at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection have noticed a… Read More

Meet LISS’s New Science Coordinator

February 11, 2016 — James Ammerman, a former Director of the New York Sea Grant program at Stony Brook University, was hired in December… Read More

Connecticut’s Largest “WMA” Gets Bigger

January 2, 2013 — A series of acquisitions has helped the Barn Island Wildlife Management Area become the state's largest, most diverse, and ecologically significant coastal wildlife management area. Read More

Long Beach West Dune and Beach

October 9, 2012 — Removal of abandoned structures and 35 acres of beach and dune habitat successfully restored along Long Beach West. Read More

Innovative Ways to Improve Water Quality

August 16, 2011 — Traditional methods to reduce nutrients in the Sound include upgrading sewage  treatment plants to eliminate reactive nitrogen in sewage and… Read More

Winter Birds and Climate Change

December 28, 2010 — View pdf documents to read Audubon fact sheets on how climate change is affecting winter bird populations in Connecticut and… Read More

Birds of Long Island Sound

December 28, 2010 — A checklist of birds of Long Island Sound (inhabiting watershed areas of Long Island Sound within New York and Connecticut). Read More

Project Limulus (Horseshoe Crab Monitoring)

April 19, 2010 — Horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus), described as “living fossils,” are actually more closely related to spiders than crabs. Although they have… Read More

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