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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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Reporting from the Heart of the Storm

Reporting from the Heart of the Storm Overwash at Nauset Beach in Eastham, Mass. The winter storms of 2018 are experiences most of New Englanders would like to forget. However, the pounding the region took through the month of March left an indelible mark on many north and east facing towns and beaches, destroying homes,…

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River Herring Network Update

Each spring river herring come from the ocean and swim, or “run” up rivers to spawn in ponds and slow sections of rivers. Each fall, Massachusetts river herring wardens gather together to talk about their favorite fish and discuss ways to preserve it. For hundreds of years, people used to gather herring at their local…

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We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us

We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us Helpful to educators and students. Hendrickson, L. and G.S. Giese In: Hornig, D. (ed.) State of the Cape 1994: Progress Toward Preservation, Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod, Orleans, MA, pp. 157-174, 1994 WHOI-R-93-008

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Funding & Fellowships

Research Funding Sea Grant provides a variety of funding opportunities based on its work in four focus areas: Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture, Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies, and Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development. National Sea Grant funding opportunities also include National Strategic Investments, for example in aquaculture, and other special projects. Research…

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