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Second blog post

By Stephanie Murphy | September 10, 2025 | Comments Off on Second blog post

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First blog post

By Stephanie Murphy | September 10, 2025 | Comments Off on First blog post

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Where Have All the Flounder Gone: Scientists use e-DNA to investigate

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Where Have All the Flounder Gone: Scientists use e-DNA to investigate

Resource managers have taken a range of conservation measures to improve the southern New England’s winter flounder population, including reduced catch limits and restrictions on dredging in their spawning habitat. Despite these steps, winter flounder stocks remain low. Scientists from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (MA DMF) want to know why. Eelgrass habitats serve…

Built Like a Tank, Lost to the Tide: How one Wellfleet house became a cautionary tale for coastal communities

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Built Like a Tank, Lost to the Tide: How one Wellfleet house became a cautionary tale for coastal communities

In 2010, owners of a property on Chequessett Neck Road in Wellfleet were permitted to remove their home and replace it with a 5800 square foot home in the grand Cape Cod style: five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two stone chimneys, a turreted sunroom, and an expansive porch. Sitting on a bluff 20-feet above the beach…

From Facebook Feed to Shellfish Farm: An intern’s journey

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on From Facebook Feed to Shellfish Farm: An intern’s journey

On a rainy December morning, I sat inside a small trailer in a gravel lot in Fairhaven. The trailer belongs to Dale Leavitt, whose oyster farm extends for 47 acres just off shore of the lot. We are on a little spit of an island between Fairhaven proper and a road that extends onto West Island, more than half of which is a state reserve …

Utah Unây: Pooling traditional knowledge and modern robotics

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Utah Unây: Pooling traditional knowledge and modern robotics

How might we supplement the observations Indigenous communities have been making of the environment over generations with robotic tools? What value might sensor systems, which can sample frequently and at very fine scales, contribute to this rich historical record of our changing climate? These questions and more were the focus of a weekend workshop for…

Currents of Curiosity: Students dive into ocean science on Cape Cod

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Currents of Curiosity: Students dive into ocean science on Cape Cod

Middle schoolers soak up information like sponges. Introducing them to different subjects and activities feeds their curiosity, helps them discover their interests, and can influence their future career choices. That’s one reason a WHOI Sea Grant-funded research team spent a day in Chatham …

Knauss Fellow Profile: James Elekwachi

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Knauss Fellow Profile: James Elekwachi

WHOI Sea Grant recently caught up with 2025 Knauss Fellow James Elekwachi for a short interview. Dive into the Q&A to hear about his life in D.C. and his experience at BOEM.

Nantucket Hosts Islands Coastal Conference

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Nantucket Hosts Islands Coastal Conference

Did you know that coastal hazards pose risks to three million people in Massachusetts alone, and that the recovery could cost the state $1 billion by the 2050s-2070s? Mass. Office of Coastal Zone Management Director Alison Brizius shared these facts during her keynote at the 2025 Nantucket Coastal …

Snap Happy: CoastSnap expands to Brewster & New Bedford

By Stephanie Murphy | August 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Snap Happy: CoastSnap expands to Brewster & New Bedford

With well-established CoastSnap stations in Sandwich, Oak Bluffs, and Nantucket, this spring WHOI Sea Grant added two more coastal monitoring stations to the CoastSnap family: Brewster and New Bedford. Brewster is known for its wide flats and sandy beaches. In partnership with the Town of Brewster, the CoastSnap at Linnell Landing is helping to keep…