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Ellie Bors: A Year as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow

Ellie Bors: A Year as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow Ellie Bors, back row, far left, and other 2017 Knauss Fellows visited the State Department to learn about international relations. June 2018 — A year in D.C. as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow can be a life-changing experience. The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship is a…

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Bioacoustics

Bioacoustics This program is a collaboration between the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Woods Hole Sea Grant. Background Light is very limited in the ocean habitat. Below the photic zone (the depth to which sunlight is able to penetrate) it is very dark. For marine mammals, however, this vast 3-dimensional world is far from dark. The…

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Bulletin: New Shoreline Change Data Reveal Massachusetts is Eroding

Bulletin: New Shoreline Change Data Reveal Massachusetts is Eroding Approximately 75 percent of the U.S. ocean shoreline is eroding. Massachusetts’ ocean-facing shore is no exception. A recent study of shoreline change in Massachusetts by the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Program, and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension reveals that approximately 68 percent,…

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