NY Currents Clip: The State of Sea Grant (May 2019)

From New York’s Great Lakes Region to Long Island Sound, inland bays, Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, Sea Grant funds a wide-range of research studies, extension activities and education efforts.

Throughout the country there is an even larger collection of vital work being done.

Each of the 33 Sea Grant programs are hard at work protecting and preserving America’s coastlines and water resources.

Over 500 Sea Grant extension agents and 300 educators are stationed in communities across the country.

In the last two years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Sea Grant College Programs across the country have:

- Created or sustained over 7,100 jobs and 1,300 businesses
- Provided 1,099 training events to coastal communities
- Reached some 781,164 K-12 students.

With a federal investment in Sea Grant of $74 million in 2016, the collective efforts of these and other Sea Grant employees and funded investigators has resulted in a $611 million economic benefit.

For over 50 years, Sea Grant research, extension and education have been engaging coastal and Great Lakes communities in meaningful ways.