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By Helen Gordon | January 28, 2015

Controls on Nitrogen Fluxes from Estuarine Sediments: The Importance of Salinity Anne E. Giblin and Charles S. Hopkinson, Jr., The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory Nitrogen is the key element limiting primary production in estuaries. While a great deal of research has been done to examine the relationship between nitrogen loading from a watershed and…

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Storms, Erosion, Flooding

By | April 21, 2018

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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NOAA Live! Webinars

By David Gaylord | February 3, 2021

NOAA Live! Webinars • Wednesdays at 4 pm ET • Tuesdays at 3 pm ET – Alaska Series Features •  Different NOAA expert and topic with each webinar •  Moderated Q&A webinars with the scientists •  Geared toward Grades 2-8 •  Archive of past webinars with English captions and Spanish subtitles •  Why do we…

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Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week

By Stephanie Murphy | April 17, 2024

BE PREPARED. BE FLEXIBLE. BE STRONG. JUNE 8 – JUNE 15, 2024   Communities across Cape Cod are improving their readiness to weather natural disasters and environmental change. Our ability to withstand and “bounce back” after events such as hurricanes, coastal storms, and flooding is called coastal resilience. Preserving dunes is a primary defense against…

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