May 2008 Sharing of Information Conference
Dowling College May 28th, 2008

Members of several of our monitoring groups were able to meet in May of 2008 to present their data and compare notes on the year's experiences.  Each student present and all of our volunteers received a South Shore Estuary 
"Preserve the Reserve" Stewardship Award.

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The Great APES (AP Environmental Scientists) from West Islip High School present their data on Swampawams Creek

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Leo Massenkeil and Kerishma Panigrahi
 representing Sayville High School
presented their data on Green's Creek

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Rachel Haberstroh presented data from the 
Great South Bay Buddies 
and her own award winning research

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The groups listened attentively to each presentation After a lunch of pizza and soda we visited the
coral research laboratories escorted by
Dr. John Tanacredi, Chairperson of
the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences		 Here the group visited the Horseshoe crab research laboratory

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Students posed for pictures with their 
new arthropod friends

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Students were supervised by
 Maria Brown, Kelly Sepe, 
Jean Infantino and Liz Moore

Members of the groups,  their teachers, 
Dr. Tanacredi and Lou Siegel pose with
 South Shore Estuary,
 "Preserve the Reserve" Stewardship certificates.

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