The most recent issue of WindCheck Magazine features an article on Dr. Caterina Panzeca of the Marine Environmental Studies program and her students conducting water quality studies.

Dr. Panzeca and her students are among over two dozen groups participating in the Unified Water Study, launched by Save the Sound in 2017 to monitor the ecological health of bays and harbors around Long Island Sound.

According to the WindCheck article, Making the Grades, "The groups collect two tiers of data: Tier I includes dissolved oxygen, water clarity, temperature, salinity, Chlorophyll a, and qualitative macrophytes. Tier II measures continuous dissolved oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and quantitative macrophytes. All the Tier I data shape the Bay Grades section of the biennial Long Island Sound Report Card; Save the Sound will release the 2022 Report Card this fall."

Photo: (l-r) Michael Mongiello and Angelee Monell are students in the Maritime College MES degree program. Photo credit: WindCheck Magazine