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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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Ellie Bors: A Year as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow

Ellie Bors: A Year as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow Ellie Bors, back row, far left, and other 2017 Knauss Fellows visited the State Department to learn about international relations. June 2018 — A year in D.C. as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow can be a life-changing experience. The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship is a…

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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…

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Storms, Erosion, Flooding

Storms, Erosion, Flooding Seventy-five percent of the population of Massachusetts lives in coastal counties and our coasts provide an even greater number of people a wide range of economic, social, and recreational opportunities. Competing uses of our coastline can result in conflicts between the protection of waterfront upland property and the preservation of the beneficial…

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The Swimming Behavior of Larval Oysters

March 2018 — Oysters are a species of profound economic and ecological importance, as they represent a hundred million dollar per year aquaculture and fishing industry in the U.S. and are a foundational reef-building species providing refuge to other marine plants and animals, in addition to stabilizing shorelines against storm surges and filtering pollution out…

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Bulletin: Coastal Dune Protection & Restoration

Bulletin: Coastal Dune Protection & Restoration This bulletin addresses restoration of the dynamic frontal coastal sand dune system with sand fencing and ‘Cape’ American beachgrass. Other typical Northeast area dune plants, such as Rosa Rugosa, Bayberry, and Beach Plum occupy more stable secondary and backdune areas.

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Teacher Workshop: March 28, 2025

Ocean Oxygen: Using forams to understand past, present, and future oceans Presenters Dr. Joan Bernhard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Geology & Geophysics Department – Insights into the Lives of Forams, Versatile Microbes with a Big Fossil Record Dr. Yi Wang, Tulane University Earth and Environmental Sciences Department – Forams in the Sediments: Witnesses and Recorders of…

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Cape Cod Trash Tote

On this page The Cape Cod Trash Tote program made possible with support from The Bilezikian Family Foundation. If you have questions about the Cape Cod Trash Totes or are interested in using one, contact Stephanie Murphy, samurphy@whoi.edu. The Trash Tote is an easy to use, transportable educational tool providing information on marine pollution for…

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