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SUMMARY:FIND 2021
DESCRIPTION:FISHERS ISLAND NATURE DISCOVERY (FIND)\nA Week of Learning Programs for Young Island Naturalists Ages 7 to 11 \nFIND returns after a one-year absence with a myriad of environmental topics that pertain to the natural history and stewardship of our island! \nUsing the Ferguson Museum as a base\, the programs will provide an indoor/outdoor learning experience that introduces our children to the Island’s natural resources and some of the challenges we face in maintaining its fragile ecology. Led by professional educators\, the children will discover the Island’s natural history through a combination of hands-on exploration\, observation\, and interpretation. \nWHEN: One week from August 16 – 20; Monday through Friday\, 9 a.m. to noon. \nWHO: 20 children max\, all between the ages of 7 to 11. Attendees will be split into two groups\, one older and one younger. Each group will be led by two educators from the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center\, assisted at times by guest naturalists. \nWHERE: Location will vary based on the daily plan\, but will include Fishers Island’s beaches\, woods\, and bodies of water – utilizing the Ferguson Museum as a home base. Programs will split time indoors and outdoors and will include art and science projects related to the subject matter. \nCOST: $350/per participant for the week. \nREGISTRATION: Please call the Museum (631-788-7239) or e-mail fimuseum@fishersisland.net to sign up your child/children. A registration form will be e-mailed to you. \nEVEN IF YOU HAVE ALREADY INDICATED YOUR INTEREST IN SIGNING UP YOUR CHILD OR CHILDREN\, PLEASE RECONFIRM.  \nThis is a wonderful opportunity for young children to develop a love of nature and ecology through participatory learning both at the Museum and in the field. \n\nFIND 2019
URL:https://fergusonmuseum.org/event/find-2021/
CATEGORIES:Family Program
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SUMMARY:iNaturalist Workshop with Murray Fisher
DESCRIPTION:In 2019 Murray Fisher\, founder of the New York Harbor School and Billion Oyster Project\, launched an effort to observe\, identify and catalog every species of organism on Fishers Island. The project utilizes the iNaturalist platform and app to build a Fishers Island biodiversity database from crowd-sourced photographs of all our living organisms. This is where your help is essential.\nJoin Murray Tuesday\, August 17\, for a workshop about how and why biodiversity matters on Fishers Island\, and about how you can help this exciting project by recording and sharing your observations on the iNaturalist Fishers Island Biodiversity Project webpage via the iNaturalist app. \nPlease bring your camera or iPhone to the workshop. \nFishers Island\, iNaturalist\nFishers Island is undoubtedly a place of great natural beauty—on our beaches\, in our marshes\, woodlands\, grasslands\, and even our own backyards. But what range of species live here? We can fairly easily observe the wide variety of plants\, birds and mammals with which we share our island\, but most people miss the smaller things. Luckily\, a remarkable platform named iNaturalist has been developed to help users identify any living organism. It is brilliantly simple to use. Users upload a photograph (from their phone or computer) and the platform’s image recognition software will guess an identity for it. Then that “observation” is automatically shared with nearly two million users\, including specialists\, who can help confirm the identity of the species. iNaturalist allows users to not only identify any living organism\, but to keep a catalog of everything the user has seen. It also facilitates the creation of projects like “Fishers Island Biodiversity” that group observations based on time and geographic parameters. \nThis gallery is a small sampling of the many Fishers Island iNaturalist observations that have reached Research Grade status\, meaning that they are shared with the Global Biodiversity Database and can be used by scientists and policy makers when regulating and managing species. More are on display in the museum as part of our Annual Exhibition and on this website. \nThe following observers have photographs on display: Jane T. Ahrens\, Kit Briggs\, Marnie Briggs\, Tracy Brock\, Benjamin de Menil\, Jamie Doucette\, Murray Fisher\, gerardwayscatmitch\, Stephanie Hall\, Michele Klimczak\, Frank Laskowski\, lydbug14\, Sara Maysles\, Foster McBride\, Terry McNamara\, Dr. Adam B. Mitchell\, Mary P. Murphy\, Linda Musser\, Kristen Peterson\, Phoebe Polk\, Alex Pollack\, Pierce Rafferty\, Laird Reed\, Alexa Rosenberg\, Jack Schneider\, and Harry Yerkes. \nWe thank each and everyone of you! \nPlease go to iNaturalist.com to see thousands more observations of the flora and fauna of Fishers Island by simply searching for our location.
URL:https://fergusonmuseum.org/event/inaturalist-workshop-with-murray-fisher/
LOCATION:Henry L. Ferguson Museum\, 1109 Equestrian Ave\, Fishers Island\, NY\, 06390\, United States
CATEGORIES:Illustrated Lecture
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SUMMARY:FI Seagrass Management Informational Webinar
DESCRIPTION:As an active partner and co-chair of the Fishers Island Seagrass Management (FISM) Coalition\, the Museum is pleased to promote the dedicated work taking place to protect the Island’s seagrass. As such\, we encourage you to read about the plan that FISM is developing to preserve and manage local seagrass beds by registering for an upcoming FISM webinar and completing the input survey. Details below.\nThe Fishers Island Seagrass Management (FISM) Coalition will be holding its second informational webinar of the summer from 5-6pm EST on Tuesday\, August 17th. This presentation will review the Coalition’s activities spanning the past year and encourage community involvement in the drafting of a seagrass management plan for the island. Webinar attendees will learn how they can provide personal comments and input so that the management plan is representative of all users of the island’s coastal waters. \nRegister here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bYWH9uWBTMiris9O3UutJg \nIf you cannot attend this session\, there is a webinar recording posted on the FISM website. Also\, be on the lookout for in-person outreach events taking place both on and off-island! \nhttps://www.fiseagrass.org/fism-plan \nQuestions can be sent to FISM project coordinator\, Connor Jones\, at fishersislandseagrass@gmail.com \nSurvey\nThe Fishers Island Seagrass Management Coalition is developing a plan to preserve and manage seagrass\, a valuable but threatened marine resource that supports commercial and recreational fishing\, ecosystem biodiversity and health\, and the beauty of Fishers Island. And they need to hear from YOU! Here’s what you can do: FILL OUT our Public Input survey to inform the Coalition on how to best protect seagrass meadows and the benefits they provide for people and wildlife\, while still allowing traditional uses: \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclaIXFDLm3C9GEkg4N8LuIRtwobRtB62mvidAvNJM-MJUPvA/viewform
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