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Plant and Animal lists for Sandy Hook.
Upcoming lectures
Field Trip Scheduling form
Maps

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Take a Stream Walk with our summer campers.

	Summer of the Horseshoe Crab - click "Living on Limulus" and learn about our observations of these "living fossils."

Click below to catch the shark and where it takes you.

Missed Green Eggs & Sand ??? Click the icon for more information on next year's horseshoe crab workshop. Click here for images of past programs.

The Ocean Institute is part of Brookdale Community College. The Institute serves over 10,000 students and teachers each year at Sandy Hook and elsewhere. Programs and topics include: marine science field trips, oceanographic boat trips, teacher workshops, pollution, wetlands protection and restoration, watersheds, coastal problems, geology, botany, weather, classroom visits, Ocean Adventures summer science camps, college-level lectures, adult and family activities and other special programs on the environment.

Brookdale Community College is the oldest environmental education organization on Sandy Hook and has maintained a facility there for over 25 years. Support for the Ocean Institute comes from participating schools and teachers, and we are not financed by any state or federal program. We acknowledge and greatly appreciate the cooperation of the National Park Service for providing services and assistance at Sandy Hook.

The Institute director, Dave Grant, can be contacted for information regarding all programs at: the Ocean Institute at Sandy Hook, 53 Hudson Rd., Highlands, New Jersey 07732. (Please note that all program scheduling is done by mail at the main campus and that any information you need for scheduling programs is contained in the following pages.) The information provided there is for teachers and students wishing to schedule our programs or seeking more information about educational possibilities at Sandy Hook. 

Dave Grant and Brookdale Community College are registered providers of Professional Development hours with the New Jersey State Department of Education. Click here for new Teacher Training Opportunities and here for curriculum materials.

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Northwest Passage Alaska
Arctic Shores-2008
Climate Change 2009 - Greenland
Sailing Pacific Waters

Pacific Seabirds

Dolphins on the Navesink

Funding sources for Field Trips!

Events, activities, research, NSF and related articles

Birds along the Beach and Ocean