Projects
Grant Number: 20190128
To support the protection and care of the Quinnipiac Meadows and Long Wharf Nature Preserves, as well as to support efforts to acquire additional preserve property and increase outreach programming, volunteer events, and Schooner programs that engage the local community with the Quinnipiac River and its surrounding environments.
Year Issued: 2019 | Amount: $10,000
New Haven Land Trust
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Gregg Davis
gregg.davis@newhavenlandtrust.org
www.newhavenlandtrust.org
Grant Number: 20180209
To support expanding the trail network, conservation management plan, and educational programming of Quinnipiac Meadows Nature Preserve and expanding the Schooner Summer Camp programming.
Year Issued: 2018 | Amount: $15,000
New Haven Land Trust
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Justin Elicker
justin.elicker@newhavenlandtrust.org
www.newhavenlandtrust.org
Grant Number: 20150148
to support continued monitoring of sediment accretion and elevation change in the Quinnipiac marshes, and to support a marsh organ experiment to assess whether soil toxicity is contributing to marsh submergence
Year Issued: 2015 | Amount: $12,300
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
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Dr. Shimon Anisfeld
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
http://environment.yale.edu/profile/anisfeld/multimedia
Grant Number: 20140115
to support installing and improving public access to the Quinnipiac River in conjunction with Phase III of the Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Project in collaboration with the Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Advisory Committee.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $10,179
Southwest Conservation District
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Roman Mrozinski
swcd43rsm@sbcglobal.net
http://conservect.org/Default.aspx?alias=conservect.org/southwest
Grant Number: 20020634
To offer a 2-day short course in river processes to local environmental activists and municipal officials. The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical, and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems, and how they are perturbed by human activity. Participants will receive the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnpiac River.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $10,000
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 20020637
To continue the work the Fair Haven community has done towards cleaning, maintaining and planning for an eco-sensitive Quinnipiac River Park.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $10,000
Elm City Parks Conservancy
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Grant Number: 20030657
To offer a short course in river processes to local environmental activist and municipal officials. The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems and how they are perturbed by human activities. Participants will receive the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2003 | Amount: $10,000
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 20030651
To educate the community about the effects of pollution, to increase access to the Quinnipiac River, to empower the residents to right environmental wrongs and to enhance appreciation for parkland and its preservation.
Year Issued: 2003 | Amount: $8,000
Elm City Parks Conservancy
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Grant Number: 20040398
To support the annual monitoring, education, advocacy, public access and restoration activities as well as expanding grassroots organizing to continue with clean up activities in the Quinnipiac Rive Watershed Action Plan.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20050335
To support the grassroots organization identified in the Quinnipac Watershed Action Plan and continue to organize volunteers toward implementaing the plan's actions. To harness the combined efforts of a large pool of citizen volunteers, clubs, civic roups, shcools and businesses, which hav eparticipated at least one year in a QRWA river activity. To use our conservation, recreation and education events and programs to increase our volunteer ranks. To continue to train and guide these volunteers toward reducing the point source and nonpoint source pollution that enters our waterways. These volunteers will educate landowners and builders whose activities have a direct impact on water quality and habitat health in tributaries and main rivers.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $10,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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