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SoundWaters Snapshots

January 2012 - Trash Rules the Day for Middle School Students

A group of middle school students, when given the opportunity to select a community service project, decided that picking up trash along the habitats at Cove Island Park was exactly what they wanted to do. Find out more about this month's Snapshot.

December 2011 - What does SoundWaters do in the Winter?

It's a question often asked us: What does SoundWaters do in the winter? Our educators work year-round, teaching our highly acclaimed hands-on science programs in schools, out in the field, and at the Coastal Education Center.

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November 2011 - Schooner Strips Down for Winter Hibernation

"Just look for the three masts," said the dock worker at Norwalk Cove Marina, pointing to where the Schooner had tied up. "That's how you can tell it's the SoundWaters." He's absolutely right. The signature three masts of the Schooner are a familiar sight to other sailors, boaters and those watching from the Long Island Sound coastline.

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October 2011 - SoundWaters Hosts Terrapin Research Group

Earlier this month, SoundWaters presented our terrapin education and research to our colleagues in the Diamondback Terrapin Working Group, a regional consortium of academics and researchers, who participated in a day-long regional meeting at the Coastal Education Center. The members, who study, monitor and collect data on terrapin nesting and repopulation activities, shared their recent findings. But the featured event was a walk to the nearby marshes where terrapins are known to nest.

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September 2011 - A Final Goodnight to Irene.

Hurricane Irene played havoc with the basement at SoundWaters Coastal Center. She caused nearly four feet of flood waters that knocked over storage shelves, uprooted aquarium pumps, and seeped into boxes, rubber boots and microscopes. But Team SoundWaters came to the rescue.

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August 2011 - Camp Favorites: Canoeing, Crabbing, Touching Terrapins

When you're experiencing summer camp SoundWaters-style, it's hard to top a day that features crabs and canoes, swimming, sand castles and sharks and minnows. On a recent afternoon, several young campers crowded around the touch tank in the SoundWaters Center aquarium, picking up spider crabs, hermit crabs and sea stars and sharing what they know about each animal.

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July 2011 - Discovering the Sound Under Sail

What do rabbits, trees and rabbit holes have to do with sailing? At SoundWaters small boat sailing camp, young mariners are discovering what every veteran sailor knows: that the bowline knot is indispensable when making a loop at the end of the line to attach one thing to another. Learning to tie the bowline can be tricky, but with encouragement from...

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June 2011 - Horseshoe Crabs Spawn Research at SoundWaters

The Horseshoe Crabs arrived early this year in their annual journey from the waters of Long Island Sound, to lay their eggs at the coastline. The spawning season, which typically gears up from late May through June, caught everyone by surprise as dozens of crabs found their way to Cove Island Park a couple weeks earlier than usual.

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May 2011 - Science at their Fingertips

SoundWaters Explorers programs engage children from kindergarten through sixth grade with hands-on science learning, enriching the Long Island Sound curriculum they receive in the classroom. Each Explorers program combines a visit to the classroom by SoundWaters educators with a field visit to the SoundWaters Coastal Center.

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April 2011 - Ship's In The Water. Crew's On Board. Let's Go Sailing!

T.S. Eliot got it wrong. April is a great month at SoundWaters. Each Spring, the Schooner SoundWaters returns from winter haul to its home port at Brewer Yacht Haven Marina in Stamford (dockage generously donated each year by Brewers Marina).

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March 2011 - Girls Shine as Science Stars

More than 80 girls signed up to learn science by doing science during winter vacation week at SoundWaters highly acclaimed Science Stars program. The parent surveys we received, along with the pre/post surveys completed by the girls, spoke loud and clear that SoundWaters inquiry-based education programs work.

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February 2011 - High School Students Research Oysters

A group of Greenwich High School students are engaged in a year-long project designed by SoundWaters to study the effects of certain water quality variables on the growth and mortality of oysters. Under the guidance of SoundWaters educators and the GHS marine science teachers, the students are seeking to learn how temperature and salinity levels affect the growth rate of oysters.

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January 2011 - Science With SoundWaters All Year Round

Science learning never stops at SoundWaters. Beginning this month, SoundWaters educators are engaging approximately 1,100 middle school students from Stamford in a year-long project to compare and contrast water quality in the classroom and at field sites along riverbanks and coastlines.

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December 2010 - From Camper to Intern

Raul Oliva, a senior at Stamford High School, works after-school as an intern at the SoundWaters Center at Cove Island Park. The 17-year-old is quite adept at slicing and dicing sea food for hungry creatures in the SoundWaters aquarium tanks. But he still remembers when he first learned about marine life and Long Island Sound: "It was here," he said, "at a camp for little kids."

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November 2010 - A Memorable 2010 Season for the Schooner

As the 2010 sailing season draws to a close, more than 150 student groups have boarded the Science on the Sound floating classroom on our three-masted Schooner SoundWaters. The numbers are impressive: More than 5,000 students from 60 schools and 15 organizations, of which 52 were fully or partially funded by grants and scholarships, experienced Long Island Sound in ways they never dreamed possible.

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August 2010 - Summer's not Summer without a Schooner Sail

Say it isn't so! You haven't sailed aboard the 80-foot Schooner SoundWaters? You haven't raised the sails during an afternoon cruise or watched the sun sink below the horizon during an evening sail?

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