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Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week
BE PREPARED. BE FLEXIBLE. BE STRONG. Communities across Cape Cod are improving their readiness to weather natural disasters and environmental change. Our ability to withstand and “bounce back” after events such as hurricanes, coastal storms, and flooding is called coastal resilience. Preserving dunes is a primary defense against flooding. A waterfront home using…
Read MoreScience At Our Shores
Science at Our Shores Events showcasing WHOI Sea Grant funded research projects Current Events Pub Nights Past Events Research Symposium 2020 50th Anniversary Celebration featuring research posters
Read MoreScience at our Shores: Pub Nights
Fish Tales from the Lab and Sea May 29, 2024 5:30pm at Aquatic Brewing 661 Main Street Falmouth, MA 02540 Catch up on the latest river herring and striped bass news! UMass Amherst scientists Adrian Jordaan and Andy Danylchuk will reel you in with stories of navigating fish research. Visit Aquatic Brewing’s website for their…
Read MoreCoastal Impacts Newsletter – November 2023
Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter November 2023 Table of Contents SUBSCRIBE » Newsletter subscribe form ISSUE ARCHIVE » Read past issues of Coastal Impacts CURRENT ISSUE » “Coastal Impacts” home Follow us on Facebook!@WHOISeaGrant Tweet us on Twitter@WHOISeaGrant Find us on Instagram@WHOISeaGrant 50 Years of WHOI Sea Grant The program celebrated a…
Read MoreSea Grant Celebrates 50 Years
Celebrating 50 Years of WHOI Sea Grant Decades of Success In 2023, we celebrated the impacts of WHOI Sea Grant, a NOAA-funded program established at WHOI in 1973. Through research, outreach, and education, the program leverages marine science to build sustainable economies and environments for Massachusetts’ diverse communities. For five decades, WHOI Sea Grant has…
Read MoreThe First Leap: One O-STEAM fellow’s experience
Questions swirled in my head: “Am I qualified enough? Will my application stand out? What if I don’t get accepted?” As I sat down to revise my O-STEAM application for the last time, a wave of anxiety washed over me.
Read MoreWomen in Science: A Moderated Panel Discussion
Women in STEM moderated panel discussion Recorded on Monday, August 24th, 2020, 6:30-8 pm (View recording – with Spanish subtitles and English captions) This webinar was designed with high school students in mind and was a collaboration between Woods Hole Sea Grant, Earthwatch Institute, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Each speaker shared the journey…
Read MoreMassachusetts Aquaculture Internships
The Massachusetts aquaculture industry is in search of staff who are reliable and willing to learn. Aquaculture Internships for Massachusetts (AIM), a collaborative partnership MIT Sea Grant, WHOI Sea Grant, and Barnstable County Cooperative Extension, pays individuals to learn about aquaculture. No prior experience is needed. Spend much of the year in an internship trying…
Read MoreUnraveling the Mystery of Lobster Die-offs in Cape Cod Bay
In the summers of 2019 and 2020, lobstermen working in Cape Cod Bay hauled up their lobster traps to find most of them dead. What caused these unprecedented deaths? With funding from Sea Grant, WHOI Associate Scientist Malcolm Scully and his team developed a model using numerous datasets to unravel this mystery. The culprit, they…
Read MoreStories from the American Lobster Initiative
How has the American lobster industry fared in the face of ecosystem changes in the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and southern New England? This fall, WHOI Sea Grant released the final installment in a series of interactive StoryMaps highlighting research projects funded by the Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI), to explore questions around…
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