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Marine Team: Rachel Hutchinson

WHOI Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension are excited to announce the addition of our newest staff member, Marine Resource Specialist Rachel Hutchinson. Rachel will focus on the water quality monitoring program as well as shellfish-related research and monitoring projects.  She will work alongside Fisheries & Aquaculture Specialists Josh Reitsma and Abigail Archer.…

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WHOI Sea Grant Extension Working with Young Changemakers

On April 27th, WHOI Sea Grant Coastal Resilience Specialist Shelly McComb spoke at the Youth Climate Action Summit, an event organized by Mass Audubon, in Sandwich, MA about climate change to interested high school students from around southeastern Massachusetts. Her presentation dove into causes of climate change, how it will affect life in the northeast,…

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Massachusetts Educators Explore the Deep Ocean in Woods Hole

On a cool Saturday in early May, WHOI’s Quissett Campus swarmed with teachers, eager to be transformed into students for the day. More than 60 assembled in the Clark Building for the annual Massachusetts Marine Educators conference, whose theme this year was “exploring the deep ocean” and waiting to hear from two world-renowned oceanographers from…

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Nantucket Coastal Conference Scheduled for June 2023

The Nantucket Coastal Conference will be held on June 12, 2023, from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm, at the Nantucket Atheneum. This year’s  conference, whose theme is climate adaptation, features a keynote presentation by Dr. Sarah Das, a WHOI physical oceanographer entitled “Sea Level Rise from Global to Local: The Decisive Decade for Coastal Communities.”…

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Research into American Lobster Reproduction

Professor Jeff Shields measures the underbelly of a pregnant female lobster at the Seawater Research Lab at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Part of a National Sea Grant College Program study led by Emily B. Rivest and Jeff Shields at Virginia Institute of Marine Science to see how lobster eggs and larvae respond to ocean acidification and warmer waters. Although the lobsters being studied are from Maine and Massachusetts, some lobsters can be found in Virginia waters. March 11, 2021

A New Interactive StoryMap Highlights Projects from the Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative A new web-based StoryMap highlights research being conducted by scientists into the reproduction of the American lobster. The scientific studies and the work to communicate about them are part of the American Lobster Initiative of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National…

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Holy Haddock!

Hot off the presses! WHOI Sea Grant Educator Grace Simpkins and her NOAA Fisheries colleague Nicole Cabana, deputy director of Northeast Fisheries Science Center, just wrapped up two days of exciting marine science with all the seventh graders from the Falmouth public schools. Over May 23 and 24, the students ventured to Woods Hole for…

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New Coastal Monitoring Website Inventories Citizen Science Projects

Communities Tracking Coastal Change Website Helps Public Participate in Science As coastal communities continue to experience the impacts of increased storms, flooding and sea level rise, public participation in monitoring that change is more important than ever. And, when readily available technologies such as the cell phone in your pocket can serve as a data…

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Cape Cod Boat Shrink Wrap Recycling Program to Run April 1 – June 30, 2023

This spring, boaters from across Cape Cod can choose from six locations to recycle the plastic wrap that protects their boat in the off-season. The Cape Cod shrink wrap recycling program reduces the amount of plastic entering our waste stream and saves valuable and limited space for non-recyclable materials. It is a partnership between Barnstable…

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