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River Herring Network Update

Each spring river herring come from the ocean and swim, or “run” up rivers to spawn in ponds and slow sections of rivers. Each fall, Massachusetts river herring wardens gather together to talk about their favorite fish and discuss ways to preserve it. For hundreds of years, people used to gather herring at their local…

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Mapping Katama Bay’s Restless Sands

Boaters on Martha’s Vineyard know navigational maps of Katama Bay become obsolete very quickly. Why do the sands at the bottom of the Bay shift so much and so often? Katama Bay has two inlets. Water pours in from Vineyard Sound through Edgartown Channel, and from the Atlantic Ocean through Katama Inlet. The size and…

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Workshops for Educators

Workshops for Educators WHOI’s professional learning workshops for educators are a window into the rapidly-changing world of ocean research and engineering. The WHOI Sea Grant Office, WHOI Information Office, and WHOI Academic Programs Office offer professional development workshops for high school and middle school teachers, held twice a year on the WHOI campus. During the…

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Coastal Impacts Newsletter

  Coastal Impacts WHOI Sea Grant Newsletter August 2025 Table of Contents SUBSCRIBE » Newsletter subscribe form ISSUE ARCHIVE » Read past issues of Coastal Impacts CURRENT ISSUE » “Coastal Impacts” home Follow us on Facebook!@WHOISeaGrant Find us on Instagram@WHOISeaGrant Follow us on LinkedIn@WHOI-Sea-Grant Sorry, we couldn’t find any posts. Please try a different search.…

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2013 MVCC

Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Conference Norton Point, Katama Bay, Wasque, Chappaquiddick Attempting to Understand One of the Most Dynamic Coastal Systems in Massachusetts June 20, 2013 Harbor View Hotel, Edgartown, Mass.     Keynote Migrating Tidal Inlets: Lessons learned at Chatham Graham Giese, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) Current Research in the Area Storms, Tides,…

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Boat owners

Boaters Boat Shrink Wrap Program Marine shrink wrap is the plastic used by boat owners to protect their vessels over the winter.  Most boats use between 15 and 25 pounds of shrink wrap. This plastic is high quality and 100 percent recyclable, however, the majority of it ends up in the waste stream. As it…

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Coastal Impacts Newsletter August 2025

  Coastal Impacts WHOI Sea Grant Newsletter May 2025 Table of Contents SUBSCRIBE » Newsletter subscribe form ISSUE ARCHIVE » Read past issues of Coastal Impacts CURRENT ISSUE » “Coastal Impacts” home Follow us on Facebook!@WHOISeaGrant Find us on Instagram@WHOISeaGrant Note from the Director: Support for Sea Grant Earlier this spring the Massachusetts Sea Grant…

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Coastal Impacts Newsletter May 2025

  Coastal Impacts WHOI Sea Grant Newsletter May 2025 Table of Contents SUBSCRIBE » Newsletter subscribe form ISSUE ARCHIVE » Read past issues of Coastal Impacts CURRENT ISSUE » “Coastal Impacts” home Follow us on Facebook!@WHOISeaGrant Find us on Instagram@WHOISeaGrant Note from the Director: Support for Sea Grant Earlier this spring the Massachusetts Sea Grant…

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