New York Sea Grant Adds Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Specialist for NY’s Eastern Lake Ontario – St. Lawrence River Region

November 14, 2024. New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has hired Lauren Darcy as a Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Specialist for the eastern Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River region of New York State.

From NYSG’s new office in Watertown, New York, Lauren will serve as a conduit to NYSG’s expertise with coastal processes and hazards, Great Lakes fisheries and ecosystem health, water quality, Great Lakes literacy training for teachers and informal educators, and coastal tourism. Lauren earned a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at the University at Buffalo.

Early in 2025, Lauren, along with NYSG Great Lakes Coastal Community Development Specialist Mary Austerman, will be hosting focus groups to determine the information and resource needs of local decision makers, building inspectors, supervisors, mayors, and Tribal leaders. NYSG provides local governments with training in best practices related to water resources and land use planning, green infrastructure, and stormwater and floodplain management. This training empowers local communities to build resilience capacity against extreme weather and storm impacts. NYSG also provides development of customized tools and resources.

Lauren can be reached at 315-849-3962; the new NYSG regional office is housed with the Tug Hill Commission at the Dulles State Office Building in Watertown.

New York Sea Grant is a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York and among a nationwide network of 34 university-based programs working with coastal communities under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program. Learn more at www.nyseagrant.org.

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