New York Sea Grant (NYSG) is a university-based Federal-state partnership program of the State University of New York, Cornell University, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NYSG has an over 50-year history of “Bringing Science to the Shore” in support of the diverse coastal communities, economies, and environments of New York through a network of integrated research, education and extension services across 3,400 miles of coastline encompassing two Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario), two major river systems (St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers); the Hudson River Estuary; the Atlantic Ocean; Long Island Sound, and several other estuaries on Long Island.