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Water Quality Monitoring Program
Water Quality Monitoring Program WHOI Sea Grant’s outreach partners at the Cape Cod Cape Cod Cooperative Extension monitor water quality at six embayments around Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts. These are Wellfleet Harbor, Barnstable Harbor, Pleasant Bay (Orleans), Cotuit Bay, Duxbury Bay and Nasketucket Bay (Fair Haven). These sites have been monitored for 15+ years…
Read MoreTips on Tuna Handling
Tips on Tuna Handling Helpful to educators and students. White, A.W. 2 pp., 1988 WHOI-G-88-001 The value of the bluefin tuna fishery is driven largely by the high demand for top-quality, fresh tuna for the Japanese market. Fresh bluefin tuna is most valuable when the fat content is high (generally between the end of July…
Read MoreWHOI-E-96-001 Crago, T.I. Marine Science Car
WHOI-E-96-001 Crago, T.I. Marine Science Car
Read MoreMy Girls in Science Experience – by Eugena Choi
Last February, when I heard about the Woods Hole Girls in Science program, I was excited. It combined my passion for conservation with marine biology, and I decided – on the spot – that I was going to go. I worked on my application for months before sending it in, and when I got the…
Read MoreEnjoying Oysters Safely in Massachusetts
Each year, millions of fresh raw oysters are consumed in Massachusetts, most of them in the warm summer months. During that time, aquaculturists in the Commonwealth take extra precautions to safeguard their harvests from the heat, include icing oysters at the time of harvest – a step that can double or triple the weight of…
Read MoreClearing the Way for River Herring in Plymouth
Just a stone’s throw from the Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrim’s first landed in 1620 is the mouth of Town Brook, a river that runs through the center of Plymouth and was once the source of fresh water and food for the Pilgrims. Chief among the fish from the river were herring, whose annual migration…
Read MoreWHOI-R-98-008 Hanlon, R.T. Mating Systems
WHOI-R-98-008 Hanlon, R.T. Mating Systems
Read MoreGreens from the Ocean
What do warming oceans mean for Massachusetts’s nascent kelp farming industry? Seaweed farming is a huge global business valued at $6 billion, yet in the U.S. it is still getting its sea legs. Around New England there are perhaps 40 – 50 farmers of all sizes and experience levels working small ocean plots of a…
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ECP-2000-06
Read MorePost 1: Building the Drifters
As a part of this summer’s O-STEAM program, I was able to spend a day with the fellows talking about how drifters can be used to study the transport of water within Cape Cod Bay. Drifters have been used by oceanographers to track ocean currents for more than four decades. They’re relatively inexpensive, versatile, and…
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