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Greens from the Ocean

What do warming oceans mean for Massachusetts’s nascent kelp farming industry? Seaweed farming is a huge global business valued at $6 billion, yet in the U.S. it is still getting its sea legs. Around New England there are perhaps 40 – 50 farmers of all sizes and experience levels working small ocean plots of a…

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Knauss Fellow Profile: Katie Sperry

Hometown: Northampton, Massachusetts Area of research focus/interest: Restoration ecology of coastal habitats What are you doing during your Knauss Fellowship? I’m placed in NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center (RC) for my Knauss Fellowship. Here, I get to see how ecosystem restoration is coordinated and funded at a federal level. Critically, the RC’s…

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Nantucket Coastal Conference 2025

Nantucket Coastal Conference June 10, 2025 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location Great Harbor Yacht Club 96 Washington Street Nantucket, Mass. 02554 Cost This is a free conference. Agenda 9:30 am – 9:45 am – Welcome and Kickoff 9:45 am – 10:15 am | Keynote Speaker Alison Brizius, director, Mass. Office of Coastal Zone Management…

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Recent Global Sea Levels and Land Levels

Recent Global Sea Levels and Land Levels Aubrey, D.G. and K.O. Emery In: Warrick, R.A., E.M. Barrow, and T.M.L. Wigley (eds.), Climate and Sea Level Change: Observations, Projections and Implications, Proceedings Climate Change Workshop, Norwich, U.K. Cambridge University Press, pp. 45-56, 1993 WHOI-R-93-015

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