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Coastal Impacts Newsletter Winter 2022

  Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter February 2022 Letter From The Director Business Continuity Planning Program Scheduled National Flood Insurance Program Updates Community Rating System Updates Upcoming Floodplain Management Training Funded Researchers Working on Real-Time ‘Shark Forecast’ Working Toward Shellfish More Robust to Disease Pressures Girls in Science Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Sessions Dune Sign…

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Marine Invaders: Green crabs and other local invasive species

Professional learning workshop for informal and formal educators Grades 6-12 December 3, 2021 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Join us to learn the basics of invasive species, discover the marine invaders we find on Cape Cod, dive into green crab genetics (real life examples of some middle school genetics concepts), and explore how climate change…

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Resilience – Business Continuity Process

Barnstable County Business Resiliency Program Small businesses: Do you need help planning for a future disruption? A large storm or flooding event can wreak havoc on Cape Cod’s small businesses. In recent years, local businesses on Cape Cod have faced unprecedented economic challenges. A program sponsored by Barnstable County’s Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and Woods…

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Hurricane Observations: On the ground and in the eye

Sean Waugh, NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK Hurricanes impact people all over the world, and not just along the coastlines! The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory takes you inside the research behind a landfalling hurricane to better understand these complex storms and all of the hazards it causes. NOAA NSSL’s mission is…

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New Coastal Monitoring Website Inventories Citizen Science Projects

Communities Tracking Coastal Change Website Helps Public Participate in Science As coastal communities continue to experience the impacts of increased storms, flooding and sea level rise, public participation in monitoring that change is more important than ever. And, when readily available technologies such as the cell phone in your pocket can serve as a data…

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Bulletin: New Shoreline Change Data Reveal Massachusetts is Eroding

Bulletin: New Shoreline Change Data Reveal Massachusetts is Eroding Approximately 75 percent of the U.S. ocean shoreline is eroding. Massachusetts’ ocean-facing shore is no exception. A recent study of shoreline change in Massachusetts by the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Program, and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension reveals that approximately 68 percent,…

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Bringing a Week of Marine Conservation Back Home

Ella Niederhelman describes her experiences in the Girls in Science program last summer. From analyzing data in the lab to time on the water spent collecting it, “I had an extraordinary opportunity,” she writes. And then she brought what she learned back home with her.

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