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Workforce Development & Training

Workforce Development & Training Contact Woods Hole Sea Grant 508-289-2665 seagrant@whoi.edu   Woods Hole Sea Grant conducts a range of outreach activities to help build a competent workforce that is literate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in order to meet the global challenges of the 21st century. Our work is directed at not only…

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Natural Resource Managers

Natural Resource Managers Our program assists town shellfish constables, river herring wardens, and other natural resource officers with problems concerning the management of coastal resources. Our focused research and extension activities contribute to the technical information required to help local natural resource managers manage the fisheries resources for continued sustainable production. Shellfish Officers Research and…

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Boat owners

Boaters Boat Shrink Wrap Program Marine shrink wrap is the plastic used by boat owners to protect their vessels over the winter.  Most boats use between 15 and 25 pounds of shrink wrap. This plastic is high quality and 100 percent recyclable, however, the majority of it ends up in the waste stream. As it…

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Study Provides Measurement of Nitrogen Removal by Local Shellfish

Towns along Cape Cod and the Islands are looking to shellfish not only as tasty culinary treats, but also for help cleaning up waters degraded by excess nitrogen in the region. While nitrogen is essential for all plants and animals, too much nitrogen in ponds and waterways—often caused by fertilizer runoff and septic tanks—can fuel…

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The Kelp Forests of New England

New England isn’t known for its kelp forests the way California and other parts of the world are. But the truth is, below the surface of both inshore and offshore waters throughout New England, especially in areas that have rocky bottoms and a lot of wave action, there are “lush rolling meadows of kelp,” according…

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Teacher Workshop November 2001

Teacher Workshop November 2001 “Engineering for an Extreme Environment: Open-Ocean Moorings” Mr. Rick Trask, WHOI, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department In this talk Mr. Trask, a Sr. Research Engineer, posed the problem of establishing deep moorings for instrumentation in the open ocean, and led the participants through various solutions. With demonstrations and props he…

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Voices from the Fisheries Project

NOAA’s Voices from the Fisheries Database is a central repository for consolidating, archiving, and disseminating oral history interviews related to commercial, recreational, and subsistence fishing in the United States and its territories. Oral history interviews are a powerful way to document the human experience with our marine, coastal, and Great Lakes environments and our living…

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