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Scientists Create Window To Long Island Sound

Web Site Provides Underwater Photos, Video

POSTED: 5:36 pm EDT April 24, 2007
UPDATED: 7:28 pm EDT April 24, 2007

A Web site developed by marine scientists is allowing students in Connecticut's classrooms to take a peek at marine life in Long Island Sound.

The program was developed by marine scientists at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point Campus and was designed to give students a firsthand look beneath the waves of the sound.

Middle schools students in Ann Marie Jakubielski's science class at Saint Joseph's School in Norwich probe the deep via the Internet.

The site, developed by UConn and the state Department of Environmental Protection, provides visitors with underwater images and video captured during a 30-year period by scientists at Avery Point.

The site was developed by Dr. Peter Auster and Ralph Lewis, both faculty members at UConn's Department of Marine Sciences with a $25,000 grant from the Long Island Sound Fund of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.

Students view underwater images captured during a 30-year period by scientists at Avery Point. More than 1,000 digital images have been scanned into a digital archive, and about 400 are now available on the site.

More images from the archive will be added to the site as well as new ones as they are taken during future research cruises. In addition to providing an underwater tour, the site describes the habitats in the Sound, its history and geology, and how its environment is affected by human activity.

To view the underwater photos, visit the Underwater Tour of the Long Island Sound Web site.

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