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Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week

BE PREPARED. BE FLEXIBLE. BE STRONG. JUNE 8 – JUNE 15, 2024   Communities across Cape Cod are improving their readiness to weather natural disasters and environmental change. Our ability to withstand and “bounce back” after events such as hurricanes, coastal storms, and flooding is called coastal resilience. Preserving dunes is a primary defense against…

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New Aquaculture Projects Funded

Bay State Aquaculture Projects Get Green Light from National Sea Grant Program October 31, 2017–Two new grants to the Woods Hole Sea Grant program totaling more than $650,000 will support research aimed at expanding aquaculture production in Massachusetts. The projects won funding as part of a national strategic investment in aquaculture by the NOAA Sea…

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Video

The following videos are available in DVD by emailing seagrant@whoi.edu and via YouTube as we upload them. Oceans Alive 2008 “Whale Detection System Help Prevent Ship Strikes” featuring John Kemp, Mooring Operation & Engineering group, WHOI Oceans Alive 2007 DVD, 2007 WHOI-V-07-002 This DVD includes the presentations from the 2007 “Oceans Alive” lecture series. Presentations…

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Bulletin: Clam Tents: A New Approach to Soft-Shell Clam Culture and Management

Bulletin: Clam Tents: A New Approach to Soft-Shell Clam Culture and Management Soft-shell clams, Mya arenaria, are an enigma to scientists, managers, and shellfish harvesters in southeastern Massachusetts and throughout the bivalve’s range. One year, clams may settle in very dense concentrations, while, the following year, there may be no soft-shell clam recruitment at the…

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June 2018 Newsletter

Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter June 2018 From the Director With the summer upon us, many locals and frequent visitors to the Cape will be returning to their favorite beaches to find them quite different than last year. Perhaps there are fewer parking spaces or the beach access has been relocated. The past…

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Knauss Profile: Amalia Aruda Almada

Amalia Aruda Almada has long had an interest in the connection between ocean science and public health. As an undergraduate at Georgetown University, Almada had read about the oceanographer and microbiologist Rita Colwell, who was the first scientist to show that freshwater copepods—barely visible …

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