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  
  
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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  
  
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Jonathon Savage 
jonathon@gathernewhaven.org 
http://www.gathernewhaven.org
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  
  
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Tyra Pendergrass Boomer 
tmpendergrass@gmail.com 
http://www.gathernewhaven.org
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  
  
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Brent Peterkin 
brent@gathernewhaven.org 
https://gathernewhaven.org/
Grant Number: 20190127  
To support an examination of the seasonal variation in the composition and quantity of microplastic particles from wastewater treatment facilities discharging treated wastewater into the Quinnipiac River. 
Year Issued: 2019 | Amount: $16,000 
        Southern Connecticut State University  
  
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Vincent Breslin 
Breslinv1@southernct.edu 
www.southernct.edu
Grant Number: 20040390  
To measure contamination along the Quinnipiac River and in oysters of the New Haven Harbor and evaluate the extent of mercury pollution and  identify sources and hotspots. 
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $7,500 
        Yale University Grant and Contract Administration  
  
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Grant Number: 20040385  
To support a short course in river processes to local environmental activists and municipal officials that will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems and how they are perturbed by human activities. 
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $7,390 
        Yale University Grant and Contract Administration  
  
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Grant Number: 20050347  
To support investigation of the various stresses that may be contributing to the extensive loss of vegetation in the Quinnipiac tidal marshes and begin to gather data on the relative importance of sub-surface compaction, decompositon in causing elevation loss in this ecosystem. 
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $12,000 
        Yale University Grant and Contract Administration  
  
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Grant Number: 20050346  
To offer a short course in river processes to local members of conservation/inland wetland commissions and environmrntal activists.  The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream exosystems, and how they are perturbed by human activities.  Participants will receive the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environemntal data on the Q River. 
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $7,500 
        Yale University Grant and Contract Administration  
  
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Grant Number: 20050336  
To support the measurement of methyl mercury contamination in the Quinnipiac River and the Oysters in New Haven Harbor. The study will evaluate the extent of methylmercury pollution and  help to identify sources and hotspots. 
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $14,500 
        Yale University Grant and Contract Administration  
  
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