In the field with Long Island Sound researchers (September 2009)

In March 2009, the Sea Grant programs of Connecticut and New York awarded nearly $820,000 in Long Island Sound Study research grants to five projects that are looking into some of the most serious threats to the ecological health of Long Island Sound, a water body designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as an Estuary of National Significance. U.S. EPAs Long Island Sound Office, which manages the Long Island Sound Study partnership, provided the majority of funds for these Sea Grant-administered research projects.

In this one-and-a-half minute clip from newsday.com, Stony Brook University investigators Kamazima Lwiza and Gordon Taylor describe their study on phytoplankton and microbial production and mortality and their effects on the Sounds bottom water low oxygen, a condition known as hypoxia. Newsday reporter and videographer Jennifer Smith came aboard the R/V Seawolf in August 2009 while the researchers took samples from the Sound to study hypoxia and its effects on the water.

For more on this project, check out a story on the Sound Research Cruise from our Web site: http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/articl...