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Surf Clams

Surf Clams In the marketplace, one-year-old surf clams are known as “New England Butter Clams” – a relatively new product on the market. Farming New England Butter Clams means they can be harvested at a size in which they are tender, buttery and sweet – as well as easy and versatile to prepare. This results…

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Nantucket Coastal Conference 2019

Nantucket Coastal Conference June 26, 2019 Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket, Mass.   Keynote Puerto Ricans Invented Resilience Ruperto Chaparro Serrano, Director, Puerto Rico Sea Grant Program Coastal Risks and Vulnerability Metocean Data Analysis and Numerical Model Simulations Daniel Stapleton, Senior Principal, GZA Responding to Coastal Change Tom O’Shea, Director of Coast and Natural Resources, The Trustees…

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Helping Communities Lower the Cost of Flood Insurance

Helping Communities Lower the Cost of Flood Insurance March 2018 — Three years ago, Woods Hole Sea Grant and its outreach partner the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension developed a first-of-its-kind program for coordinating regional flood insurance and promoting flood resilience in coastal communities. That program is now serving as a model for others across the…

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Teacher Workshop November 2003

Teacher Workshop November 2003 “Right Whale Ecology at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Conservation” Dr. Mark Baumgartner is an Assistant Scientist in the Biology department of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He studies the foraging behavior and ecology of whales, and the formation and location of the patches of plankton that whales feed on. In this…

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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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Summer Programs for Children and Young Adults

Summer Programs for Children and Young Adults Please note: The only summer youth program that WHOI Sea Grant and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution lead is O-STEAM As a resource, this page also lists other local organizations that offer summer programs for children and young adults. Please contact the individual programs directly for details on their…

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Science at our Shores: Conversations

Sustaining our Shorelines You can get involved too! November 6, 2024 5:30 p.m. at Aquatic Brewing (661 Main Street Falmouth, MA 02540) *Parking details below* Scientists Bob Chen (UMass Boston) and Bryan McCormack (WHOI Sea Grant) talk coastal resilience research. Grab a pint and learn how students redesigned shorelines and how CoastSnap uses photos submitted…

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