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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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Teacher Workshop: May 4, 2018

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…

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Bulletin: New Shoreline Change Data Reveal Massachusetts is Eroding

Bulletin: New Shoreline Change Data Reveal Massachusetts is Eroding Approximately 75 percent of the U.S. ocean shoreline is eroding. Massachusetts’ ocean-facing shore is no exception. A recent study of shoreline change in Massachusetts by the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Program, and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension reveals that approximately 68 percent,…

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