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Coastal Resilience Week Stories

Our Stories of Resilience Stories are fundamental to the way humans make sense of the world. Telling stories about the changes we see in the environment around us increases draws us together through shared experience toward a common purpose. As part of Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week 2024, WHOI Sea Grant produced a pre-concert program…

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Fellowship Opportunities

Fellowship Opportunities (See our education page for information on the O-STEAM Fellowship for Massachusetts high school students.) Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Photo: The 2020 Knauss fellows pose at the end of their Placement Week (Fall 2019). The application period for the Knauss 2027 cohort is CLOSED. We hope to open applications again,…

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Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week

BE PREPARED. BE FLEXIBLE. BE STRONG. JUNE 8 – JUNE 15, 2024   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…

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Funding Opportunities

Research Funding Opportunities WHOI Sea Grant Program Funding Opportunities   WHOI Sea Grant Biennial Request for Proposals – CLOSED Depending on availability of funds, WHOI Sea Grant expects to award approximately $1,000,000 to support 4-6 research projects during the two-year funding period. » Click here for details.   General Program Development Funds – OPEN Small…

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Q&A with Knauss Fellow Jori Barley

A graduate of UMass Amherst, Jori Barley is a 2024 Knauss Fellow in the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). One of NOAA Sea Grant’s most high-profile fellowship, the John A. Knauss Fellowship provides a one-year, paid experience for highly-qualified early career professionals to work on issues related to coastal, marine and Great…

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Science at our Shores: Conversations

Reduce, Remove, Restore: Little Pond’s journey to recovery after sewering   *Join us for a pint and the second conversation in a three-part series about Cape Cod water quality concerns!* December 10, 2025 5:30 p.m. at Aquatic Brewing (661 Main Street Falmouth, MA 02540) *Parking details below* Amy Lowell (Town of Falmouth) and Ken Foreman…

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Coastal Impacts Newsletter – March 2024

  Coastal Impacts WHOI Sea Grant Newsletter March 2024 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 The First Leap: One O-STEAM fellow’s experience Questions swirled in my…

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