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Cindy Tribuzio, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau, AK, and Sabrina Garcia, Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Anchorage, AK Scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center conduct research and assess the stocks of many species of sharks in Alaskan waters. Join us for a discussion of the different sharks found in…
March 10, 2021 – Boats on trailers wrapped in plastic is a common sight on Cape Cod in the off-season. But what happens to all that shrink wrapped plastic when it comes off the boats in the spring? Too often it ends up in the landfill. To reduce the amount of plastic waste entering our…
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 Up, Up, and Away – Flying High with NWS Weather Balloons with Jeff Orrock, NOAA’s National Weather Service in Wakefield, VA » National Weather Service Kids Corner: Weather balloons page including a video of a weather balloon launch. » National Weather Service Education Page: Weather science, games, weather safety, and careers…
Frank Niepold and Tom Di Liberto, NOAA’s Climate Program Office in Silver Spring, MD The carbon cycle is a process where carbon dioxide travels from the atmosphere into living organisms and the Earth, then back into the atmosphere. Learn how changes in carbon dioxide levels, such as burning fossil fuels (oil, gas, etc.), affect the…
Nikki Fitzgerald, NOAA’s Texas Sea Grant in Anahuac, TX » Texas Parks and Wildlife page on Coastal Wetlands. You can see pictures of some of the animals that live in Texas’ coastal wetlands. » Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge » Texas Parks and Wildlife video: Gulf Coast Prairies Eco-Region (6 minutes long) » Texas Parks and Wildlife…
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.
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…
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…
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 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…