New Haven Harbor Watershed

Environmental Monitoring Program

Meteorological Data Monitoring

B- Objectives

The proposed project will support practically all of the Sound Future Fund Goals stated in the third paragraph of the RFP and many of the Priority Problems listed in the CCMP. The specific objectives for this project will be the following:

• The students will be trained over a period of 4 years in the use of the scientific method and appropriate research techniques during many field investigations each year to determine the quality of the water and the health of the ecosystem in the New Haven Harbor watershed to a competency level of 80%.
• The students will develop the skills needed to design, fabricate, test, operate and maintain the various kinds of equipment (Remote Operating Vehicles, seines, dredges, corers, trawls, traps, fishing gear, water testing meters, various sampling and measuring devices) that will be used to carry out the nine types of research projects outlined in this proposal to a competency level of 80%.
• The students will develop and apply their communication skills to present the results of their investigations, data analysis and conclusions (if any) to the scientific community, to all of the organizations mentioned in the final products(s) section of this proposal and the general public using the instruments and methods also described in that section to a competency level of 80%.