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Homeowner’s Handbook Helps Guide Residents Through Coastal Storms

By David Gaylord | September 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Homeowner’s Handbook Helps Guide Residents Through Coastal Storms

Protect your home and your family from the natural hazards that are part of life near the coast. Download a free PDF of this newly updated resource, the Massachusetts Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Coastal Hazards. Produced by Woods Hole Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension.

Get Your Dune Protection Signs

By David Gaylord | May 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Get Your Dune Protection Signs

WHOI Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension are providing dune protections signs for free in order to prevent uninformed beach-goers from damaging fragile coastal resources. The artwork on the signs was created by students across Massachusetts as part of a WHOI Sea Grant-sponsored art contest. There are several designs to choose from. These…

Read our Latest Newsletter!

By David Gaylord | December 31, 2020 | Comments Off on Read our Latest Newsletter!

The latest issue of the Woods Hole Sea Grant newsletter, Coastal Impacts, is now available! Contents is this issue include: Letter from the DirectorWHSG Continues DEI Efforts with Recording of Virtual Seminar on Systematic Racism in AmericaWomen in STEM Panel Discussion, Part of Girls In Science Program,  Available For Viewing OnlineNew Extension Bulletin Available On Use…

To Tree, or Not to Tree

By David Gaylord | December 22, 2020 | Comments Off on To Tree, or Not to Tree

New Marine Extension Bulletin Takes a Look at History, Feasibility of Using Discarded Christmas Trees in Dune Stabilization In the days following the holidays when it’s time to clear out all the decorations, Massachusetts residents often wonder what to do with their Christmas trees. In coastal areas of Massachusetts that often leads to questions about…

Woods Hole Sea Grant Partners on Climate Change, Municipal Legal Liability Fact Sheets

By David Gaylord | December 9, 2020 | Comments Off on Woods Hole Sea Grant Partners on Climate Change, Municipal Legal Liability Fact Sheets

Woods Hole Sea Grant recently assisted the Roger Williams Law School’s Marine Affairs Institute in the production of Massachusetts-specific fact sheets on climate change and municipal legal liability. The fact sheets, created by the institute in collaboration with the Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program and MIT Sea Grant, are: Climate Change and Government Negligence Liability…

Woods Hole Sea Grant Provides More Than $19,000 in COVID-19 Related Rapid Response Grants to Support Cape Cod Municipal Shellfish Efforts

By David Gaylord | December 2, 2020 | Comments Off on Woods Hole Sea Grant Provides More Than $19,000 in COVID-19 Related Rapid Response Grants to Support Cape Cod Municipal Shellfish Efforts

Joint Effort with Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Yields Strong Results Benefitting Both Recreational and Commercial Fisheries Across Region   Media AdvisoryDecember 2, 2020For Immediate Release Contact: Harriet Booth, Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension harriet.booth@barnstablecounty.org (508) 375-6634   (Woods Hole, Mass.) – The Woods Hole Sea Grant program (WHSG) recently provided $19,400…

Woods Hole Sea Grant Sponsored Knauss Fellows Placed

By David Gaylord | August 10, 2020 | Comments Off on Woods Hole Sea Grant Sponsored Knauss Fellows Placed

Two candidates sponsored by the Woods Hole Sea Grant program for the 2021 class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program recently received their placements. Each year, approximately 70 finalists are selected nationally for the prestigious Fellowship to spend a year in Washington, D.C., working in Congress or the Executive Branch on critical marine policy…

Eat an Oyster, Support a Local Farmer

By David Gaylord | August 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Eat an Oyster, Support a Local Farmer

Did you know oyster farming has economic, environmental, health, and social benefits for our communities? Check out our short video about oyster farming in Massachusetts.

New Compostable Serviceware Guide Available

By David Gaylord | July 23, 2020 | Comments Off on New Compostable Serviceware Guide Available

A new “Compostable Food Serviceware Buying Guide” aims to provide restaurants and other food service businesses alternatives to plastic take-out containers and serviceware, like cups, plates, bowls and utensils. Created in collaboration with the Wellfleet Recycling Committee and Woods Hole Sea Grant and released by CARE for the Cape & Islands, the guide grew out…

New Handbook Helps Homeowner’s Prepare for Natural Hazards

By David Gaylord | July 16, 2020 | Comments Off on New Handbook Helps Homeowner’s Prepare for Natural Hazards

To help homeowners protect their family and their property from these hazards, Woods Hole Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension have produced the newly updated Massachusetts Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Coastal Hazards.