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Coastal Resilience Week Events

Find us at any of our upcoming Coastal Resilience Week 2024 events!June 8 – June 15, 2024 Be Prepared. Be Flexible. Be Strong. WHOI Sea Grant is sponsoring a weeklong series of events aimed at raising awareness and increasing our community’s resilience to the impacts of climate change, particularly from storms, erosion, and flooding. “Cape…

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Wicked Good Education: National Marine Educators Come to Boston

WHOI Sea Grant Education Specialist Grace Simpkins has had a busy year.  When the National Marine Educators Association decided to hold its annual meeting in Boston in 2024, Grace and her colleagues on the board of the Massachusetts chapter sprang into action, planning the week-long meeting that brings together teachers and informal educators from across…

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Woods Hole Sea Grant Biennial Request for Proposals

Woods Hole Sea Grant Biennial Request for Proposals Funding Cycle: February 1, 2024 –January 31, 2026 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant (WHOI Sea Grant) requests proposals for two-year projects from investigators at academic, research and educational institutions throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Funded projects will fill information gaps or provide innovative solutions to pressing…

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Science at our Shores: Conversations

Shuck and Learn What affects oyster farming? September 18, 2024 5:30 p.m. at Aquatic Brewing (661 Main Street Falmouth, MA 02540) *Parking details below* Grab a pint as Torrance Hanley (Sacred Heart University), Loretta Fernandez (Northeastern University) and Jesús Pineda (WHOI) discuss the latest research in shellfish aquaculture: what you should know about environmental stressors and…

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Fundamentals of Shellfish Farming

Fundamentals of Shellfish Farming The 2024 class is full. This 10-week virtual interactive course will cover the basics of shellfish aquaculture with an emphasis on learning practical information. Students will be introduced to shellfish biology, hatchery & nursery production, field grow-out of oysters and clams, and safe shellfish handling and harvest practices. The course will…

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Historic Shipwreck Management: Meeting of Experts

Historic Shipwreck Management: Meeting of Experts Hoagland, P. 23 pp., 1992, $3.00 WHOI-W-92-001 There has been spectacular growth in the demand for and resource value of submerged cultural resources such as historic shipwrecks. The pace at which technology is providing access to submerged cultural resources appears to have outstripped institutional abilities to ensure resource conservation.…

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Announcing Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week

Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week Raises Awareness of Coastal Vulnerabilities and Promotes Solutions – while having a bit of fun at the same time Eight days of events across Cape Cod Download event flyer Cape Codders have experienced their fair share of extreme weather in recent years, with stronger storms and larger storm surge reshaping…

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We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us

We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us Helpful to educators and students. Hendrickson, L. and G.S. Giese In: Hornig, D. (ed.) State of the Cape 1994: Progress Toward Preservation, Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod, Orleans, MA, pp. 157-174, 1994 WHOI-R-93-008

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