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1990-2000 Environmental Technologies Summary

By Helen Gordon | January 28, 2015

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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Teacher Workshop: March 28, 2025

By Stephanie Murphy | February 7, 2025

Ocean Oxygen: Using forams to understand past, present, and future oceans Presenters Dr. Joan Bernhard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Geology & Geophysics Department – Insights into the Lives of Forams, Versatile Microbes with a Big Fossil Record Dr. Yi Wang, Tulane University Earth and Environmental Sciences Department – Forams in the Sediments: Witnesses and Recorders of…

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Theme Booklet: Environmental Technologies

By | October 10, 2014

Theme Booklet: Environmental Technologies WHOI Sea Grant 4 pp., 2000 WHOI-G-00-006 Also available online: click here Learn more of WHOI Sea Grant’s investment in environmental technologies which 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…

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Knauss Profile: Amalia Aruda Almada

By | September 25, 2019

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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Teacher Workshop April 2002

By | August 14, 2018

Teacher Workshop April 2002 “Determining the Resistance of Marine Animals to Environmental Chemicals” Dr. Mark Hahn, WHOI, Biology Department Dr. Hahn’s major research interests include receptor-mediated mechanisms of toxicity, and means of adaptation and acquired resistance to exposure to persistent organic pollutants. This presentation centered on looking at toxins in the marine environment, particularly dioxins,…

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Diseases, Pests, and Predators of Concern to New England Shellfish Growers

By Helen Gordon | January 26, 2015

Diseases, Pests, and Predators of Concern to New England Shellfish Growers Walton, W. brochures, 2005 WHOI-H-05-002, 003, and 004 Also available as PDF files by clicking on the topic of interest: diseases, pests, predators If you are a shellfish grower, harvester, or resource manager, you are well aware that diseases, pests, and predators are issues…

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