Projects

Short Courses
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
BioDiversity Index
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
Landowners Education
Grant Number: 20080177
Funds are requested to support the implementation of landowner and youh education about reducing non-point pollution.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Training Program
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)
Quinnipiac River stories
Grant Number: 20080172
Funds are requested to support the publishing of six in-depth stories including 240 photographs about the Quinnipiac River and its surrounding environment.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $3,000
Fair Haven Housing Initiative/Grand News
Organic Land Care Program
Grant Number: 20080176
Funds are requested to support the implementation of an intensive workshops to teach 100 Connecticut school groundskeepers how to mamnage fields without the use of harmful pesticides.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $6,530
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
Reports: 20080176 CT NOFA.pdf
Aerial photography for Consider the Quinnipiac photo-based awareness campaign
Grant Number: 20080287
Additional funding is requested to cover the cost for aerial shots for the "Consider the Quinnipiac" Campaign. Aerial photographs would provide documentation access to areas not readily seen from land level.  (See grant 20070065)
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $1,000
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
Consider the Quinnipiac photo exhibit
Grant Number: 20080286
Additional funding is requested to support addtions and enhancements of the "Consider the Quinipiac" Campaign. Enhancements will include the photo exhibit, grand opening, expansion of photo documentation time, and photo stories.  (see grant 20070065)
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $2,500
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
River Processes Short Course
Grant Number: 20070055
Funds are requested to support the offering of a short course in river processes to local members of conservation/inland wetland commissions and environmental activists. 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 recieve the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $8,064
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Freedom Lawn Campaign
Grant Number: 20070057
Funds are requested to support the continuation and extension of the successful Safe Grounds Campaign in efforts to reduce non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $19,000
Watershed Partnership, Inc