Projects
Grant Number: 20020626
To support volunteer monitoring, Stream Walk problem assessment, regulatory research, grassroots advocacy, education - upper and lower river, and general public education.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20020633
To continue monitoring vegetation change and mudflat development in the Quinnipiac River brackish marshes, and begin to test hypothesized causes for the observed wetland loss. To complete a nitrogen and trace metal analyses and begin to assess how marsh loss has affected the load of pollutants to the river.
Year Issued: 2003 | Amount: $13,000
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 20040387
To support a before and after pilot study of a residential neighborhood within the Quinnipiac River Watershed after it has participated in an education program that encourages the use of organic lawn care agents versus chemical lawn care agents.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership
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Grant Number: 20040386
To support the production of a student lead project of internet based-handheld computer field guides resources for the Quinnipiac River that calculates water quality data, geology, oysters, plants, macro-invertabrates, birds and oystering history.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $4,995
Cold Spring School
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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: 20050350
To support funding for two aspects of the Quinnipiac River Conservation and Development corridor Project. RPG will develop an inter-municipal agreement between the three lower river communities that will include land-use guidelines and a tax sharing agreement.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $8,000
Rex Development (formerly known as South Central CT Regional Econ. Develop. Corp)
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To support the measurement of copper concentration and bioavailability throughout the Quinnipiac River system and its tributaries.
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $12,000
Yale University - Grant and Contract Administration
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Grant Number: 20090114
To support investigations into the causes and implications of marsh drowning in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $8,000
Yale University - Grant and Contract Administration
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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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