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Carbon’s Journey and Our Warming Planet

By Stephanie Murphy | September 30, 2020

Frank Niepold and Tom Di Liberto, NOAA’s Climate Program Office in Silver Spring, MD The carbon cycle is a process where carbon dioxide travels from the atmosphere into living organisms and the Earth, then back into the atmosphere. Learn how changes in carbon dioxide levels, such as burning fossil fuels (oil, gas, etc.), affect the…

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Education

By David Gaylord | May 29, 2018

K-12 Education The goal of the Woods Hole Sea Grant Education Program is to increase ocean literacy – “an understanding of the ocean’s influence on you-and your influence on the ocean” so that all citizens young and old can make informed and sustainable decisions involving our coastal resources, communities, and economies. Workshops for Educators Lesson…

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Resilient Communities and Economies

By Helen Gordon | January 8, 2015

Resilient Communities and Economies 2024-2025 Projects Di Jin and Michael Weir of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: To Insure or Not to Insure: How homeowners perceive flood risk 2022- 2024 Projects » Robert Chen, University of Massachusetts Boston; Lois Hetland, Massachusetts College of Design: Cedric Woods, Institute for New England Native American Studies: Traditional Ecological Art…

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Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

By Helen Gordon | January 8, 2015

Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development 2022-2023 Projects Content Coming Soon 2020-2022 Projects Megan Winton, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, and Greg Skomal, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries:  Development and testing of a near real-time white shark forecast system for Cape Cod, Massachusetts Marianne Long and Megan Winton, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy: Understanding the rewilding of Cape…

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Knauss Fellows

By David Gaylord | April 25, 2018

Knauss Fellowship The NOAA John A. Knauss Fellowship provides unique professional experiences for graduate students interested in national ocean policy. Fellows selected for this prestigious program spend a year in Washington, D.C., working in Congress or the Executive Branch on critical marine policy and resource management issues.  Woods Hole Sea Grant may submit up to…

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Funded Projects by Year

By David Gaylord | April 23, 2018

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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Water Quality

By | April 21, 2018

Water Quality Good water quality is necessary for swimming, boating, fishing, shellfishing, aquaculture, and most of the other activities that bring people to the coast, as well as for healthy coastal habitats.  Major water quality concerns are often related to climate-oriented changes in biophysical processes and land-based human activities including septic discharge and runoff from…

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Lesson Plans and Classroom Visits

By David Gaylord | April 20, 2018

Lesson Plans and Classroom Visits Coasts, Oceans, and Stewardship Program (COAST) This program is a collaboration between the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center and WHOI Sea Grant.   WHOI Sea Grant (WHOI SG) and the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) in Woods Hole, MA developed a program to create educational materials relating to key marine and…

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NOAA Live! Lesson Units

By Grace Simpkins | March 18, 2021

NOAA Live! Lesson Units (Teacher-in-Residence Program) This program is a collaboration between the Cape Cod Regional STEM Network (CCRSN) and Woods Hole Sea Grant (WHSG).   The lessons utilize NOAA Live! Webinars which is a collaboration between  the NOAA Regional Collaboration Network and Woods Hole Sea Grant. Third grade North Falmouth Elementary School teacher, Michael Irving,…

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