Saving the Sound with History

Eelgrass is a critical habitat for fish, it filters water, and it stabilizes Connecticut's shoreline

Eelgrass is a critical habitat for fish, it filters water, and it stabilizes Connecticut's shoreline ()

Meg Shah ’24 (CLAS) discusses how her Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award is helping her research and ultimately create a historical distribution map of eelgrass in the Long Island Sound which will be used to find locations with higher success rates for its restoration. Among many things, eelgrass is a critical habitat for fish, it filters water, and it stabilizes the shoreline. (Video by UConn)