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Wicked Good Education: National Marine Educators Come to Boston

WHOI Sea Grant Education Specialist Grace Simpkins has had a busy year.  When the National Marine Educators Association decided to hold its annual meeting in Boston in 2024, Grace and her colleagues on the board of the Massachusetts chapter sprang into action, planning the week-long meeting that brings together teachers and informal educators from across…

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Ocean Encounters

This spring, WHOI Sea Grant’s Floodplain manager Shannon Hulst was a featured panelist in WHOI’s Ocean Encounters series. The live Zoom conversation called “Rising Seas, Resilient Coasts,” which reached an audience of 2000 viewers, also included Chris Piecuch, a WHOI sea level scientist and Hannah Wagner, the resilience manager for the City of Boston in…

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Questions and Answers on Purchasing Coastal Real Estate In Massachusetts

Questions and Answers on Purchasing Coastal Real Estate In Massachusetts Are you considering buying property near the water? This brochure focuses on questions you should ask (and where to find the answers) as a potential purchaser of coastal real estate. This resource provides information about permitting, erosion and erosion control structures, flood insurance, and much…

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Microplastics in the Marine Environment

In 2020, recognizing the growing problem of marine debris in the environment, Woods Hole Sea Grant funded two new research projects that aim to better understand the sources, transport and uptake of microplastics by certain wild and cultured sea food. “Microplastics have many sources, shapes and sizes in the marine environment yet we know very…

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Technology Enables Better HAB Monitoring and Mapping

Technology Enables Better HAB Monitoring and Mapping The project’s sampling plan for the Nauset area of Cape Cod. Sept. 2018 — Nauset Marsh in Eastham, Mass. on Cape Cod serves as a “natural laboratory” for researchers working to better understand harmful algal blooms (HABs) or red tide. HABs in Nauset are caused by the phytoplankton…

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