Projects
Grant Number: 20251468  
to support the restoration, conservation, and maintenance of the Quinnipiac Meadows/Fargeorge and Hemingway Creek Nature Preserves. 
Year Issued: 2025 | Amount: $20,300 
        Gather New Haven  
  
  Contact Information
Jonathon Savage 
jonathon@gathernewhaven.org 
http://www.gathernewhaven.org
Grant Number: 20241216  
to support the restoration, conservation, and maintenance of the Quinnipiac Meadows/Fargeorge Nature Preserve, 
Year Issued: 2024 | Amount: $15,000 
        Gather New Haven  
  
  Contact Information
Jonathon Savage 
jonathon@gathernewhaven.org 
http://www.gathernewhaven.org
Grant Number: 20231328  
to support the study of salt in catch basins and to design simple and inexpensive modifications that will allow salt to be flushed out while leaving sediments and their toxic burdens behind where they can be removed by routine maintenance.   
Year Issued: 2023 | Amount: $18,000 
        Yale University  
  
  Contact Information
Gaboury Benoit 
gabouryb@gmail.com 
www.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20231325  
to support the protection and care of the Quinnipiac Meadows/Fargeorge Nature Preserve, as well as to support enhancements to the Growing Entrepreneurs program, Schooner scholarships, expansion of environmental programming and land acquisition.        
Year Issued: 2023 | Amount: $18,000 
        Gather New Haven  
  
  Contact Information
Tyra Pendergrass Boomer 
tmpendergrass@gmail.com 
http://www.gathernewhaven.org
Grant Number: 20221221  
to support the study of salt levels in the Quinnipiac River and typical source waters to advance understanding of this emerging pollution threat.   
 
Year Issued: 2022 | Amount: $20,000 
        Yale University  
  
  Contact Information
Gaboury Benoit  
gabouryb@gmail.com 
www.your.yale.edu/research-support/office-sponsored-projects
Grant Number: 20211290  
to support the study of microplastics and macroplastics in the Quinnipiac River and its source waters. 
Year Issued: 2021 | Amount: $20,000 
        Yale University  
  
  Contact Information
Mr. Gaboury Benoit 
gabouryb@gmail.com 
https://www.yale.edu/
Grant Number: 20201268  
to support the study of microplastics in storm run-off to tributaries in the Quinnipiac River watershed.
 
Year Issued: 2020 | Amount: $19,757 
        Yale University  
  
  Contact Information
Gaboury Benoit 
gabouryb@gmail.com 
https://www.yale.edu/
Grant Number: 20201267  
to support the monitoring of marsh surface elevations as well as the salinity and vegetation in one lobe of the marsh, and to support measurement of soil salinity and vegetation cover in marsh-bordering areas at the Quinnipiac Meadows Preserve.
 
Year Issued: 2020 | Amount: $4,856 
        Yale University  
  
  Contact Information
Shimon Anisfeld 
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu 
https://www.yale.edu/
Grant Number: 20201260  
to support the protection and care of the Quinnipiac Meadows and Long Wharf Nature Preserves, as well as to support efforts increase outreach programming, volunteer events and Schooner programs and to design and implement a Preserves Intern training program.
 
Year Issued: 2020 | Amount: $15,000 
        Gather New Haven  
  
  Contact Information
Brent Peterkin 
brent@gathernewhaven.org 
https://gathernewhaven.org/
Grant Number: 20190124  
to support the monitoring of marsh surface elevations as well as the salinity and vegetation in one lobe of the marsh, and to support measurement of soil salinity and vegetation cover in marsh-bordering areas at the Quinnipiac Meadows Preserve. 
Year Issued: 2019 | Amount: $ 
        Yale University  
  
  Contact Information
Dr. Shimon Anisfeld 
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu 
www.yale.edu

