The Dutchess No Child Left Inside program (NCLI) has partnered with many local organizations and agencies to participate in scientific research projects. Each activity has helped the youth learn more about their environment in the City of Poughkeepsie an the larger Hudson Valley.

This includes:

• collecting air quality information in the City of Poughkeepsie

• monitoring mosquito traps for an invasive mosquito species

• electroshocking in the Fall Kill Creek with the NYS DEC;

• macroinvertebrate training through the NYS DEC WAVE program;

• macroinvertebrate sampling in the Fall Kill and Wappinger creeks;

• monitoring the impact of a beaver dam at the Vassar Ecological preserve;

• collecting glass eels on the Fall Kill Creek as part of the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program Eel Project;

• monitoring the presence of mitton crabs in the Fall Kill Creek with the NYS DEC;

• and much more.