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| Steward Experience Helps Student Launch Fisheries Research Career: Former NY Sea Grant waterfront steward Stacy Furgal, left, is now a Fisheries Technician with the U.S. Geological Survey in Oswego, NY. She is seen here with USGS Research Vessel Chief Engineer Ted Strang preparing to bottom trawl Lake Ontario. Photo: USGS |
Oswego, NY; March 13, 2014 -- New York Sea Grant is looking to
hire college and graduate students to serve as Launch Stewards at waterfront venues
in Cayuga, Jefferson, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, and Wayne counties in
2014.
The student-stewards will provide watercraft
inspection training and public outreach to boaters at select launch ramps along
Lake Ontario between Henderson Harbor and Sodus Bay and on Oneida Lake.
Using a standardized protocol, the
student-stewards demonstrate and teach boaters the nationally-recognized Clean,
Drain, Dry principles of the Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers campaign as a part of a
simple watercraft inspection that helps minimize and prevent the spread of aquatic
invasive species (AIS).
“The Launch Stewards along Lake Ontario and on
waters elsewhere in New York play a key role in educating the public about how
they can help manage aquatic invasive species,” says Steward Program Manager
Mary Penney, a Coastal Community Development Specialist with New York Sea
Grant, Oswego, NY.
“New York Sea Grant is working with other steward program
leaders, the Cornell University Invasive Species Program, and the New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation to develop branding that makes
the stewards easily identifiable by boaters and to standardize the protocol for
safe, quick and simple inspections by stewards and by the boaters themselves
after they leave the launch areas,” Penney adds.
The Launch Stewards also participate in
educational outreach, collect boater usage and AIS data.
Former New York Sea Grant Launch Steward Stacy
Furgal, now a U.S. Geological Survey Fisheries Technician, says the experience
she gained as a waterfront steward with New York Sea Grant was invaluable
training for working in the environmental field.
“As a New York Sea Grant steward, I was
introduced to good data management practices and had the opportunity to build
my collaboration and communication skills. I interacted with the public and was
responsible for sharing accurate scientific information about the resource
areas. I learned hands-on knowledge that I am using in my current invasive fish
and zooplankton research job,” Furgal says.
Applications will be accepted until positions
are filled and can be emailed to New York Sea Grant Mary Penney at mp357@cornell.edu. For more information,
contact Penney at New York Sea Grant, SUNY Oswego, 315-312-3042.
The full PDF announcement of the New York Sea
Grant Launch Steward opportunity with position description, dates, pay, and
qualifications is online at www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/coastalcomm/pdfs/NYSGLaunchStewRecruit2014.pdf.
New York Sea
Grant (NYSG), a cooperative
program of Cornell University and the State University of New York, is one of
33 university-based programs under the National Sea Grant College Program
(NSGCP) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Through
its statewide network of integrated services, NYSG has been promoting coastal
vitality, environmental sustainability, and citizen awareness about the State’s
marine and Great Lakes resources since 1971.
For updates on New York Sea Grant
activities, www.nyseagrant.org has
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