Project Oceanology

🔉 Turn Sound Up 🔊

As we shared earlier this week, Project Oceanology received a grant from the Long Island Sound Community Impact Fund (LISCIF) last fall, a partnership among Restore America's Estuaries, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Long Island Sound Partnership.

In addition to creating beautiful flower beds🪻, another remarkable student-led stewardship initiative occurred at both Winthrop STEM Elementary Magnet School (New London Public Schools) in New London and Thames River Magnet School (Groton Public Schools) in Groton. Fourth-grade students from both schools decorated buckets designated for clean-up stations. While Winthrop students painted 🫟 their buckets 🪣, students from TRMS participated in a drawing contest. Select artwork 🎨 from the three fourth-grade classes was chosen to be featured as stickers on the buckets, alongside their school 🐢 and Project Oceanology 🌊.

In Groton, you can locate a Clean-up Station at TRMS and Birch Plain Creek. In New London, you can find stations at Winthrop, Riverside Park, and Ocean Beach Park. At each Clean-Up Station, you can pick up a bucket and a picker to collect trash. Once you've gathered the trash, simply dispose of it in a garbage can 🗑️, and return the bucket and picker to their designated spot. Let’s join together to keep our communities clean this summer! ☀️