NYSMEA Announcements   09/13/05

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Catch the pictures of the 05 Conference on the webpage.

Next Board/Conference 06 meeting in (Huntington) Greenlawn on Thursday, September 15th.
Directions
to Doreen (Bader) Johann’s house.  Call Doreen so that we can plan appropriately.  
                                                  All invited!  Get active! 
                                      We need people for this national event!

  Cedarmere Offers Salt Marsh Walk and Poetry Reading, Sept. 18
"Enjoy the Salt Marshes with Poetry" is the program being offered at 2 P.M., Sun. Sept. 18, at Cedarmere,
home of the 19th Century poet ,William Cullen Bryant,  225 Bryant Ave., Roslyn Harbor. Cedarmere’s part of
Long Island’s estuarine habitat will be the feature of a guided nature walk and round-robin poetry reading.
Admission is free. For directions phone 516-571-8130.
This is one of a number of such programs at Cedarmere, a Nassau County Historic Site, where visitors
(adults and children) are invited to read one or two stanzas of a poem in rotation. They will get a number of  
chances with the nine-page salt marsh classic "Hymns of the Marshes," written in 1879 by Sidney Lanier of Baltimore, Md.

"Ye marshes, how candid and simple
And nothing-withholding and free
Ye publish yourselves to the sky
And offer yourselves to the sea!"

There will be contemporary poems like "Wetlands" from her book, "Make Your Way Across This Bridge,"  
by Nassau Community College English Professor Patti Tana of Locust Valley, where she writes,
"Here I am vast/ vast as horizon/ where reeds lash/ the sky."

Katrina Assistance to marine educators organized by NMEA

Katrina Lesson Plans from National Geographic

Technical Reviewers needed by NOAA

NRDC message on Artic National Wildlife Refuge 

Estuary Live

Reminder International Beach Clean-up

Friends of Hudson River Park  – September Boat Rides

HiddenHarborTour Sept. 24th – Boat Trip

Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant  New Action Alert

Marine Technology Society Conference and opportunity for Teachers and Students

Sea Turtles in Danger on the West Coast

North Carolina Maritime History Council Annual Conference  

I have an inquiry from a friend who is helping someone fill 75 positions
for environmental scientists/envir. engineers/water-wastewater/ health
and safety, etc. for SCM Consultants (subsidiary of Tetra Tech).  They
really need folks to help out with the environmental assessment/cleanup
associated with the damage caused by hurricane Katrina.  I can put
anyone in touch with my friend who is doing this.
       Please do not forward this email after October 1, 2005, and
please keep this date information on any forwarded email... thanks.
BrockAdler@aol.com


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Two CD's are enclosed for use in the activities on the sounds of sea life (A Sea Symphony) and
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Byron E. Jordan, EdD., 16722 Pineridge Dr., Granada Hills, CA , 91344
Tel:  (818)366-2371; e-mail:  sealabmanual@yahoo.com

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