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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: 20080160
Funds are requested to support the continuation of short courses concerning river processes to local members of the conservation/inlan wetland commissions and environmental activists.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $8,260
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 20080167
Funds are requested to collect water quality data to study the ecology of the Quinnipiac River and the New Haven Harbor and provider public education about the river.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $7,160
Schooner, Inc
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Grant Number: 20080162
Funds are requested to support the implementation of a four-day training program to educate land use leaders.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $15,000
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
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Grant Number: 20090105
To support a four day training program for local land use leaders to educate them on the scope of their jurisdiction, the flexibility they have under the law, tools for natural resource and watershed protection and collaborative techniques including consensus building, facilitated decision-making, community participation and effective meeting management.
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $15,000
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
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Grant Number: 20100114
To support a two-day training program for local land use leaders to educate them on the scope of their jurisdiction, the flexibility they have under the law, tools for natural resource and watershed protection and collaborative techniques including consensus building, facilitated decision-making, community participation and effective meetings management.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $7,500
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
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Grant Number: 20100144
To support homeowner workshops and outreach and to initiate data analysis and focus group research to design a program to best serve homeowners who want organic land care for their properties.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $5,000
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, Inc.
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Grant Number: 20100145
To support a study to characterize the fate of benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) in the watershed areas of the Quinnipiac and Mill Rivers which empty into Long Island Sound in an effort to study the fate of BBP on the behavior of aquatic organisms.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $5,000
Quinnipiac University
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Grant Number: 20110076
To support surveying for phthalate plasticizers in an effort to characterize potential contamination of the Quinnipiac River by municipal and industrial sources.
Year Issued: 2011 | Amount: $5,000
Quinnipiac University
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Grant Number: 20110135
To support the continuation of homeowner workshops which will initiate educational outreach on organic land care to inland/wetland and conservation commissions, including installation and assisting in the development and related outreach of an online turf forum geared towards Connecticut school groundskeepers.
Year Issued: 2011 | Amount: $6,000
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut, Inc.
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