Our webinars provide you with the unique opportunity to hear directly from the Save the Sound experts working in the field.

December 10 | Six Lakes Park Vision Report

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This summer, the Six Lakes Park Coalition conducted a two-part visioning process to gather input from neighbors about their hopes for the property once it is cleaned up. We are now pleased to announce the release of A Community Vision for Six Lakes, the report that emerged from that process.

The coalition hosted an informational webinar this month to discuss the report’s findings and answer questions

October 29 | How’s the Water? 2024 Long Island Sound Report Card Conversation

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Save the Sound released the 2024 Long Island Sound Report Card, our fifth biennial report on the ecological health of the open waters of the Sound and 57 bay segments around its margins.

Join Peter Linderoth, our director of water quality, along with the Report Card’s science advisors and Unified Water Study partners, for an interactive discussion of the data-driven results. We’ll talk about the ways nitrogen pollution degrades water quality, the impact of nitrogen pollution reduction investments over the decades, and the range of individual and community actions to address this problem.

October 23 | Crisis to Compliance: A Legal Battle for Clean Water

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Save the Sound has a multi-faceted litigation and advocacy campaign to end nitrogen pollution in Long Island Sound and the dead zones, toxic algae bloom and other harms it causes. During this webinar, you will hear how chronic long-term sanitary sewage overflows from aging infrastructure can be successfully addressed through a combination of sewage right to know laws and Clean Water Act litigation. Save the Sound/Soundkeeper identified and addressed a regional problem involving the County of Westchester and 11 municipalities. The lawsuit spanned over 8 years and resulted in around $100 million spent to study and repair over 665 miles of sewer pipes. The case also resulted in a decision establishing that municipalities can be held liable for violations at non-municipal sewage treatment plants if their failing collection systems contributed to the violations.

July 9 | People Over Plastics: Taking Action to Combat Pollution

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Every year, over 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans, causing devastating effects on marine life and human health. This staggering statistic is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact of plastic pollution. Guest expert Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics, shares about the negative environmental, climate, and health impacts of plastics. Enck also provides an update on the nation’s most comprehensive plastics and packaging reduction law, which has passed the State Senate and is pending in Albany in the State Assembly. Following the presentation, we discuss how to join Save the Sound cleanups, empowering you to take direct action in the fight against plastic pollution.

March 21 | Inside Save the Sound’s Water Quality Lab with Elena Colón

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How does Save the Sound’s water quality lab contribute to preserving and improving the water in Long Island Sound? What parameters does the lab measure to assess the health of our beaches, bays, and harbors? How can individuals contribute to citizen science initiatives related to water quality monitoring in their own communities? Elena Colón, laboratory manager at Save the Sound, provides answers to these questions and more. Participants took a virtual tour, learned about the lab’s history, and saw the instruments our team of scientists utilizes to process thousands of samples every year.

February 6 | Monitoring River Herring Migration with Fish Biologist Jon Vander Werff

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Alewife and Blueback Herring, collectively referred to as River Herring, are anadromous fish living much of their life in the ocean but migrate to freshwater to spawn in the same streams they were born in. Save the Sound’s fish biologist, Jon Vander Werff, discusses field monitoring techniques used to document their migration in the Long Island Sound watershed. Data from project sites will be presented to highlight project success and potential fish stock issues. The session concludes with a Q&A.

January 31 | Member Lunch ‘n’ Learn with Conservation Biologist Louise Harrison

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Plum Island, a hidden ecological treasure, boasts the largest seal haul-out in New York and habitat for 229 bird species. The Preserve Plum Island Coalition, coordinated by Save the Sound, successfully campaigned to save the Island from the federal auction block; the future of the island, however, remains unclear. Louise Harrison, Save the Sound’s Long Island natural areas manager and conservation biologist, will guide us through the island’s natural, historical, and cultural significance and why over 120 national, regional, and local organizations are fighting to ensure it becomes a national monument or receives another equally protective designation. Learn how you can help support the preservation of Plum Island for future generations.

January 25 | Six Lakes Virtual Tour

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Locked behind a chain-link fence in Hamden, Connecticut, is 102 acres of forested wetlands known as Six Lakes. This virtual, photographic tour will take you around the perimeter of this beautiful urban property so you can learn more about its past as an industrial site and current efforts to clean it up and transform it into a public park. Community activist Justin Farmer leads the discussion, sharing information about its past as a firing range and gunpowder storage site, its history of environmental racism, its ecological features, and its current status. He is joined by fellow community organizer Elizabeth Hayes for a Q&A at the end of the webinar.