Public Education

Short Courses

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
8 260.00
Description: 
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.

Course evaluations were received from 19 of the 22 participants and were positive overall on factors including lectures, field trips, readings, problem sets, whether the course met students' expectations and whether students would recommend the course to others.

BioDiversity Index

Organization: 
Schooner, Inc
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
7 160.00
Description: 
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.

Collected and logged data with assistance from educators, university students and younger program participants. Disseminated information about uses of the Biodiversity Database at a Connecticut Science Teachers Association meeting.

Landowners Education

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the implementation of landowner and youh education about reducing non-point pollution.

QRWA used landowner education and public access in its Friends of the Quinnipiac campaign, aiming to motivate landowners and land developers to protect the river from pollution by following best land management practices.

Training Program

Organization: 
Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA)
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
15 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the implementation of a four-day training program to educate land use leaders.

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Quinnipiac River stories

Organization: 
Fair Haven Housing Initiative/Grand News
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
3 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the publishing of six in-depth stories including 240 photographs about the Quinnipiac River and its surrounding environment.

Six in-depth stories and at 343 photographs about the Quinnipiac River and the envrionment were published.

Organic Land Care Program

Organization: 
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
6 530.00
Description: 
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.

Ninety percent of attendees rated their knowledge of organic turf management as competent or high upon completion of the workshop. In follow-up calls with participants, grub control and initial program cost were determinded to be the greatest barrier to implementing an organic program. CT NOFA and other invested groups have initiated dialog with CT DEP to work to improve legislation to allow some type of grub control mechanism.

Aerial photography for Consider the Quinnipiac photo-based awareness campaign

Organization: 
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
1 000.00
Description: 
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)

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Consider the Quinnipiac photo exhibit

Organization: 
Catalyst Studios, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
2 500.00
Description: 
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)

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Friends of the Quinnipiac Project

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
15 000.00
Description: 
To support The Friends of the Quinnipiac Project which will remedy the effects of poor land use practiced by managers and owners of riparian properties through outreach, education, training, public recognition and technical assistance. 

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Quinnipiac River Education and Access Program (QREAP)

Organization: 
New Haven Land Trust, Inc
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
5 000.00
Description: 
To support the Quinnipiac River Education and Access Program (QREAP) which brings increased public access and ecological research activities to both the Quinnipiac Meadows/Eugene B. Fargegorge and Quinnipiac Ridge Preserves. 

Offered workshops, lectures, canoe clinics and bird walks.

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