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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…

Marine Mammal Threats Background Many marine mammal populations are decreasing to critical levels largely due to human actions including; accidental capture in fishing gear (entanglement and bycatch), habitat destruction, pollution, commercial hunting, increase in ocean noise, increase in vessel traffic, and ship strikes. In addition, climate change is having an impact as prey moves, habitat…

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…

Sediment Cores Hold Clues to Past Climate   June 1 marked the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. After last year’s extremely active and costly hurricane season, many are asking whether ocean warming, sea-level rise, and climate disruption are signaling a new, more intense hurricane regime. Should we in the Northeast do more to prepare…

Coral Reefs, Symbionts, and Climate Change   Presenter: Dr. Amy Apprill, WHOI Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department – Coral, Symbionts, and Ecosystem Health   Dr. Konrad Hughen, WHOI Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department – Coral Records of Environmental and Climate Change   Date: May 2018   Classroom activities   NOAA Lesson Plans Coral Cores: Ocean Timelines…

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…

Learning by Listening to Marine Mammal Sounds Humpback whale photo courtesy of NOAA. Sept. 2018 — A Sea Grant-funded project aims to make science accessible to visually impaired students. Carla Curran, professor of marine sciences at Savannah State University, and Laela Sayigh, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, worked with Kathy Patterson, the manager…

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…

Program Guides The WHOI Sea Grant Program supports research, education, and extension projects that encourage environmental stewardship, long-term economic development, and responsible use of the nation’s coastal and ocean resources. It is part of the National Sea Grant College Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a network of 33 individual programs located…