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1998-2000 Projects

By Helen Gordon | January 28, 2015

Laboratory-based Transmission of the QPX Parasite in Cultured Hard Clams and Studies on the Progression of the Disease Roxanna M. Smolowitz, University of Pennsylvania’s Laboratory for Aquatic Animal Medicine and Pathology, and Dale F. Leavitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The farming of hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria, aka, quahog) is one of the fastest growing aquaculture…

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Bioacoustics

By David Gaylord | May 31, 2018

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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Theme Booklet: Environmental Technologies

By | October 10, 2014

Theme Booklet: Environmental Technologies WHOI Sea Grant 4 pp., 2000 WHOI-G-00-006 Also available online: click here Learn more of WHOI Sea Grant’s investment in environmental technologies which has resulted in the development of new tools for analyzing and interpreting the effects of toxic chemicals on the reproduction, development, and disease defenses in marine animals and…

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Enjoying Oysters Safely in Massachusetts

By | June 15, 2019

Each year, millions of fresh raw oysters are consumed in Massachusetts, most of them in the warm summer months. During that time, aquaculturists in the Commonwealth take extra precautions to safeguard their harvests from the heat, include icing oysters at the time of harvest – a step that can double or triple the weight of…

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Coral Reef Biodiversity

By Grace Simpkins | August 2, 2021

Coral Reef Biodiversity:  Dive into the Species Found on a Coral Reef    This project is a collaboration between the NOAA Regional Collaboration Network and Woods Hole Sea Grant. Summary This 2nd grade, standards-based activity is meant to accompany our NOAA Live! Webinars on corals and serve as an example of how you can dive…

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Study Provides Measurement of Nitrogen Removal by Local Shellfish

By | February 6, 2017

Towns along Cape Cod and the Islands are looking to shellfish not only as tasty culinary treats, but also for help cleaning up waters degraded by excess nitrogen in the region. While nitrogen is essential for all plants and animals, too much nitrogen in ponds and waterways—often caused by fertilizer runoff and septic tanks—can fuel…

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