Melody Penny 
By: Abby Bezrutczyk and Melody Penny Education and Outreach is part of the foundation that builds LIISMA. Continued education provides a basis for developing soft skills and knowledge that our … Read more
Abby gets down in the mud to remove ludwigia from the southeast shoreline of Artist Lake. The Ludwigia chronicles at Artist Lake all started back In October 2021, when theTown … Read more
Left to right: Invasive species technicians Katrina Hanley, Samantha Nicholson-Sarmiento (center foreground), Marisa Vanasco (back left), Amber Pavek and Biologist Yuriy Litvinenko (back right). In reminiscing on this year’s eventful … Read more
Haley Gladitsch After a successful and eventful field season, the LIISMA teams bid a farewell to Invasive Species Specialist II Haley Gladitsch and Invasive Species Technician Katharine Stirber as they … Read more
The LIISMA team ventures out to Long Island’s easternmost point to monitor for invasive species! To many Long Islanders, Montauk is a summer vacation destination located in the town of … Read more
