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Coastal Impacts Newsletter Winter 2022

  Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter February 2022 Letter From The Director Business Continuity Planning Program Scheduled National Flood Insurance Program Updates Community Rating System Updates Upcoming Floodplain Management Training Funded Researchers Working on Real-Time ‘Shark Forecast’ Working Toward Shellfish More Robust to Disease Pressures Girls in Science Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Sessions Dune Sign…

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Research Measures Views on Seals and Sharks

Newly released research results highlight striking differences and some similarities in the way visitors, voters, and commercial fishermen view seals and white sharks on Cape Cod. The findings of the Woods Hole Sea Grant-funded project can help advance marine conservation, promote responsible stewardship, and foster co-existence. From June to September 2021, representative samples of Cape…

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NE Sea Grant Regional Meeting

            The Northeast Regional Sea Grant Virtual Meeting! Regional Sea Grant Meeting Breakout Session Webinars As you’re aware, the 2020 in-person Northeast Regional Sea Grant Meeting scheduled for March 30-April 2 in Brewster, Mass.,  was canceled due to COVID-19.  The next in-person meeting is tentatively scheduled to take place in Spring…

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Shell Day 2019

Shell Day 2019 – Northeast Coastal Acidification Network (NECAN) 2021 Update Woods Hole Sea Grant Research Coordinator Jennie Rheuban presented Shell Day findings during the 2020-2021 webinar series held by NECAN, the Northeast Coastal Acidification Network. First Coastal Acidification Monitoring Blitz in the Northeast Held August 22, 2019, Shell Day’s aim was to engage water…

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Knauss Fellows

Knauss Fellowship The NOAA Dean John A. Knauss Fellowship provides unique professional experiences for graduate students interested in national ocean policy. Fellows selected for this prestigious program spend a year in Washington, D.C., working in Congress or the Executive Branch on critical marine policy and resource management issues.  Woods Hole Sea Grant may submit up…

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Funding Opportunity for Research on American Lobster

The National Sea Grant American Lobster Research Program will continue to support research in FY21 to address critical gaps in knowledge about how the American Lobster and its fishery is being impacted by environmental change. It is informed by listening sessions with regional fishing industry stakeholders, state and federal fisheries managers, and university, state and…

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Woods Hole Sea Grant is committed to building inclusive marine science programs that serve people with unique backgrounds, circumstances, needs, perspectives, and ways of thinking. To help further this mission, the program has awarded funding to eight projects aimed at taking steps toward addressing the issue. “Woods Hole Sea Grant…

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Fellowship Opportunities

Fellowship Opportunities 2024 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship – Open Photo: The 2020 Knauss fellows pose at the end of their Placement Week (Fall 2019). Woods Hole Sea Grant is pleased to invite qualified individuals to submit applications for the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. The fellowship provides a one-year, paid experience…

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Aquaculture and Acidification Project Photo Essay

Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension are responding to a question asked by members of the Massachusetts shellfish aquaculture industry – and that work is featured in an a photo essay on our website. The quahogs were placed into boxes dug into the sediment and a net placed over them to protect them…

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Teacher Workshop April 2002

Teacher Workshop April 2002 “Determining the Resistance of Marine Animals to Environmental Chemicals” Dr. Mark Hahn, WHOI, Biology Department Dr. Hahn’s major research interests include receptor-mediated mechanisms of toxicity, and means of adaptation and acquired resistance to exposure to persistent organic pollutants. This presentation centered on looking at toxins in the marine environment, particularly dioxins,…

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