Skip to content

Knauss Fellows

Knauss Fellowship The NOAA John A. Knauss Fellowship provides unique professional experiences for graduate students interested in national ocean policy. Fellows selected for this prestigious program spend a year in Washington, D.C., working in Congress or the Executive Branch on critical marine policy and resource management issues.  Woods Hole Sea Grant may submit up to…

Read More

Funded Projects by Year

Funded Projects  2010 – Present 2024-2025 Collapse Jill Carr of the University of Massachusetts Boston, Forest Schenck of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, and Alison Frye of Salem Sound Coastwatch Restoring Eelgrass: Identifying best practices for a seed-based approach   Ken Foreman and Ketil Koop-Jackobson of Marine Biological Laboratory, and Matt Long of the…

Read More

Water Quality

Water Quality Good water quality is necessary for swimming, boating, fishing, shellfishing, aquaculture, and most of the other activities that bring people to the coast, as well as for healthy coastal habitats.  Major water quality concerns are often related to climate-oriented changes in biophysical processes and land-based human activities including septic discharge and runoff from…

Read More

Teacher Workshop: December, 3 2021-Invasive Species

Marine Invaders: Green crabs and other local invasive species Presenters: Dr. Carolyn Tepolt, WHOI Biology Department – Invasive Species on Our Shores, Presentation Slides   Dan Martino, co-owner, Cottage City Oysters – Invasive Species in Aquaculture, Presentation Slides   Date:  December 2021   Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities NOAA Live! 4 Kids recorded webinars:  These…

Read More

Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022-2023 Projects » Andy Danylchuk and Lucas Griffin, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Stripers on the Line: Quantifying short-term post-release activity, behavior and mortality of striped bass (Moronesaxatilis) in the Massachusetts recreational fishery » Dr. Torrance Hanley of Northeastern University and collaborators: Determining How Aquaculture Grow-Out Methods Can Reduce the Negative Effects…

Read More

Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

Healthy Coastal Ecosystems 2022-2023 Projects Robert Chen, University of Massachusetts Boston; Lois Hetland, Massachusetts College of Design: Cedric Woods, Institute for New England Native American Studies: Traditional Ecological Art & Science: Designing sustainable shorelines Malcom Scully, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Rocky Geyer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Modeling Unprecedented Low Dissolved Oxygen (Hypoxia) in Southern…

Read More

Coastal Conference Series Spotlights Nantucket

More than 100 people attended the second biennial Nantucket Coastal Conference at the Atheneum on June 26, 2019, to hear about the coastal issues that impact Nantucket and the approaches government, industry and non-profit organizations take in addressing them.  Fifth in a series of conferences that started in 2013 and alternate between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket,…

Read More

NOAA Live! Lesson Units

NOAA Live! Lesson Units (Teacher-in-Residence Program) This program is a collaboration between the Cape Cod Regional STEM Network (CCRSN) and Woods Hole Sea Grant (WHSG).   The lessons utilize NOAA Live! Webinars which is a collaboration between  the NOAA Regional Collaboration Network and Woods Hole Sea Grant. Third grade North Falmouth Elementary School teacher, Michael Irving,…

Read More

North to the Future: Alaskan sharks in a changing ocean

Tuesday, May 25, 3 pm ET/11 am AKT Cindy Tribuzio, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau, AK, and Sabrina Garcia, Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Anchorage, AK Scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center conduct research and assess the stocks of many species of sharks in Alaskan waters. Join us for…

Read More

WHSG Works With Growers On Butter Clam Growth Efforts

WHSG Project Explores Growth, Mortality of Surf Clam Species   Atlantic surf clams, Spisula solidissima, are a type of clam common to the Atlantic coast from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Hatteras, NC. A subspecies also exists, the Southern surf clam, Spisula solidissima similis that ranges from the Gulf of Mexico to Massachusetts.…

Read More