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Helping Communities Lower the Cost of Flood Insurance

Helping Communities Lower the Cost of Flood Insurance March 2018 — Three years ago, Woods Hole Sea Grant and its outreach partner the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension developed a first-of-its-kind program for coordinating regional flood insurance and promoting flood resilience in coastal communities. That program is now serving as a model for others across the…

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New Aquaculture Projects Funded

Bay State Aquaculture Projects Get Green Light from National Sea Grant Program October 31, 2017–Two new grants to the Woods Hole Sea Grant program totaling more than $650,000 will support research aimed at expanding aquaculture production in Massachusetts. The projects won funding as part of a national strategic investment in aquaculture by the NOAA Sea…

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Shellfish

Shellfish Research » Identification of the cause of hemic neoplasia in Mercenaria mercenaria and development of management methods NRAC-USDA Fall 2017 – Fall 2019 » Market Development to Diversify Shellfish Aquaculture Products in Massachusetts NOAA SG Aquaculture Initiative: Addressing Impediments to Aqua. Opportunities Sept. 2017 – Sept. 2019​ » Piloting surf clam aquaculture techniques to…

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Knauss Fellows

Knauss Fellowship The NOAA Dean 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…

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Aquaculture & Fisheries

Aquaculture and Fisheries Featured Video Water Quality and Shellfish on Cape Cod https://seagrant.whoi.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/3-Bays-Aquaculture-SM-Video-1-FINAL.mp4 Featured Topics Oysters Surf Clams River Herring American Lobsters Kelp Research Among the important fisheries and aquaculture research projects supported by WHSG are: PhytO-ARM, An Open-source Platform for Real-time Phytoplankton Monitoring, Data Sharing, and Automated Aquaculture Management Market Development to Diversify Shellfish…

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Cyclical Behavior of the Tidal Inlet at Nauset Beach, Chatham, Massachusetts

Cyclical Behavior of the Tidal Inlet at Nauset Beach, Chatham, Massachusetts Giese, G.S. In: Aubrey, D.G. and L. Weishar (eds.), Hydrodynamics and Sediment Dynamics of Tidal Inlets. Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Vol. 29, pp. 269-283, 1988 WHOI-R-88-025 Study of historical data concerning shoreline forms and change on southeastern…

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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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Islands Coastal Conference

The Islands Coastal Conference   The Islands Coastal Conference alternates each year between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket islands. The free conference attracts coastal managers, environmental organizations, town officials and staff, conservation commissions, planning boards, consultants, researchers, experts and partners from across the region to discuss a range of critical issues such as sea level rise,…

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The Swimming Behavior of Larval Oysters

Jeanette Wheeler (right) and WHOI Summer Student Fellow Elaine Luo used a turbulence tank to study the swimming behavior of oyster larvae. Photo by Tom Kleindinst, WHOI 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…

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Study Provides Measurement of Nitrogen Removal by Local Shellfish

Towns along Cape Cod and the Islands are looking to shellfish not only as tasty culinary treats, but also for help cleaning up waters degraded by excess nitrogen in the region. While nitrogen is essential for all plants and animals, too much nitrogen in ponds and waterways—often caused by fertilizer runoff and septic tanks—can fuel…

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