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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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Knauss Profile: Amalia Aruda Almada

Amalia Aruda Almada has long had an interest in the connection between ocean science and public health. As an undergraduate at Georgetown University, Almada had read about the oceanographer and microbiologist Rita Colwell, who was the first scientist to show that freshwater copepods—barely visible …

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Index of Workshops for Educators

Index of Workshops for Educators January 2026 Fishing for Data: Real world applications for oceanographic observations March 2025 Ocean Oxygen: Using forams to understand past, present, and future oceans December 2023 From Classrooms to Coastlines: An educator workshop about marine and freshwater harmful algal blooms (HABs) February 2023 Bringing Shark Research on Cape Cod into…

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1990-2000 Environmental Technologies Summary

Snapshot WHOI Sea Grant’s investment in environmental technologies has resulted in the development of new tools for analyzing and interpreting the effects of toxic chemicals on the reproduction, development, and disease defenses in marine animals and for detecting the presence of harmful algal species before bloom conditions occur. Background Coastal ecosystems in southeastern Massachusetts are…

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2004-2006 Projects

Environmental Contaminants and Fish Reproduction Not if, but how? That is the question WHOI postdoctoral investigator Joanna Wilson is asking about how certain environmental contaminants effect marine and freshwater fish reproduction. By applying new research tools—advanced mass spectrometry and proteomics—Wilson and her former graduate advisor, John Stegeman, a WHOI senior scientist, will measure proteins associated…

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Preserving Our Homelands Camp Comes to WHOI

Most science educators will tell you, if you want to get kids excited about science, you have to actually do science. Last summer WHOI Sea Grant had the opportunity to participate in the annual “Preserving Our Homelands” Camp, an interactive summer scienc ecamp for Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal middle schoolers. The program aims to facilitate in the…

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Sea Grant 2019 Aquaculture Funding Opportunities

The National Sea Grant College Program (NSGCP) has announced three federal funding opportunities (FFOs) to advance U.S. aquaculture for FY2019. Two of the three require a Sea Grant partner in order to submit the proposal for funding consideration from the NSGCP.  The third FFO does not require a Sea Grant partner, however, WHSG is willing to…

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New Woods Hole Sea Grant Website

Woods Hole Sea Grant has a new look and a new URL — seagrant.whoi.edu.  Take a few minutes to browse our new website and update your bookmarks. We’re eager for any feedback you might have. Email us at seagrant@whoi.edu.

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