The Sachem North Environmental Science classes and Envirothon Club are recipients of a 2016 Target Field Trip Grant.
This marks the fourth straight year that teacher/advisor Monica Marlowe has applied and won the $700 grant from what is a very competitive process.
They will use the money to pay for bussing to Sunken Meadow State Park to collect data on the tidal creek restoration project there, in collaboration with New York Sea Grant, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Parks, Connecticut Fund for the Environment, and Save the Sound.
The students will be presenting posters of this data at Brookhaven National Lab for the annual Open Space Stewardship Conference in June.
The funds will also supplement the cost of their trip to Captree and Robert Moses State Parks to investigate the ecology of the Great South Bay and Fire Island.
“These field trips continue to be extremely valuable for generating excitement, increasing understanding of the AP Environmental Science curriculum, and providing great networking opportunities,” said Marlowe in an email.
Additionally, an article was released recently by Save the Sound and Connecticut Fund for the Environment, titled “A Time to Be Grateful: Students who Love Science,” which highlights Sachem North students’ work on the estuary restoration at Sunken Meadow State Park.
Click and scroll to the bottom of the link to read the story “Up to Their Elbows in an Estuary” and watch the video of our students working in the field.