Middlesex Community College to premiere LI Sound Blue Plan student videos May 1

MIDDLETOWN — Middlesex Community College’s Center for New Media Productions is hosting a film screening for student-created Long Island Sound Blue Plan videos Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Room 808 in Chapman Hall.

Students, along with their teacher Dan Nocera, produced six videos in the fall for the state of Connecticut Long Island Sound Blue Plan.

“Long Island Sound is Connecticut’s greatest natural resource and an ecological treasure. It supports diverse uses, and a variety of species that swim, skitter, burrow, undulate, and soar through its many habitats. Yet, despite its economic, ecological and aesthetic value, there is no coordinated means to manage the sound as a whole,” Nocera said in a prepared statement.

“The Blue Plan changes this by presenting a collective vision for sustaining what we love about the sound for generations to come,” he added.

For the first time, this initiative identifies and protects “Significant Human Use Areas” and “Ecologically Significant Areas” based on the best available scientific data and stakeholder input, the release said.

The plan development team, in partnership with the Middlesex Center for New Media, invites the public to this world premiere of a short video series which explores the many facets of the sound, and how the Blue Plan is protecting each of them while planning for the future.

Middlesex Community College is located at 100 Training Hill Road. For information, email DEEP.BluePlanLIS@ct.gov, call 203-568-6307 or visit ct.gov/deep/lisblueplan.