Projects
Grant Number: 20130077
To support monitoring of sediment accretion, elevation change, and sea level rise in the Quinnipiac marshes.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $8,500
Yale University
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Shimon Anisfeld
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
www.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20130076
To support Surveying the Quinnipiac River, a study of bis-2-ethylhexyl phthalate and other plasticizers in an effort to characterize contamination from industrial sources.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $7,000
Quinnipiac University
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Harry Pylypiw
Harry.Pylypiw@quinnipiac.edu
www.quinnipiac.edu
Grant Number: 20130107
To support the research of private property land titles and negotiating easements with property owners to allow sections of the trail to pass through their land.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $5,000
North Haven Trail Association
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Steve Fontana
safontana@aol.com
www.northhaventrails.org
Grant Number: 20130073
To support environmental advocacy, particularly through raising awareness of new federal phosphorus requirements for the lower Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $15,000
Mill River Watershed Association of South Central Connecticut Inc.
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Cordalie Benoit
cordalie.benoit@aya.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20130053
To provide general operating support for fostering awareness of environmental issues of the Quinnipiac River and promoting activities that safeguard the health of residents that use the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $7,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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Sharon Lewis
sharonelewis2001@aol.com
www.environmental-justice.org
Grant Number: 20130052
To support the "A Fair Haven for Wildlife: Community-based land stewardship to benefit wildlife and waterways" project, in partnership with the Urban Resources Initiative.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $12,000
Audubon Connecticut
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Francis Grant Suttie
fgrantsuttie@audubon.org
www.ct.audubon.org
Grant Number: 20120100
To support water testing of the Quinnipiac estuary and New Haven Harbor for contaminants and evaluation of abnormal reproductive development of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) by endocrine disrupting compounds.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $10,500
Yale University
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Grant Number: 20120099
To support a continuing study about assessing the extent and characteristics of macroalgal blooms in New Haven Harbor and the impacts such blooms have on benthic communities.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $10,500
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
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Grant Number: 20120101
To support a study about the impacts of wastewater from municipal waste water treatment plants on fish health in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $18,000
University of Connecticut, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Grant Number: 20120062
To support the Safe Grounds Campaign to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of toxic lawn pesticides in the Quinnipiac River watershed and throughout Connecticut.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $20,000
The Watershed Partnership, Inc.
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