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Teacher Workshop: March 28, 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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Career Information

Interested in a career in the marine sciences? You won’t want to miss our web site Marine Science Careers: A Sea Grant Guide to Ocean Opportunities. The site offers profiles of people working in the marine sciences, and includes overviews of the fields of marine biology, oceanography, ocean engineering, a look at what the future…

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Technology Enables Better HAB Monitoring and Mapping

Technology Enables Better HAB Monitoring and Mapping The project’s sampling plan for the Nauset area of Cape Cod. Sept. 2018 — Nauset Marsh in Eastham, Mass. on Cape Cod serves as a “natural laboratory” for researchers working to better understand harmful algal blooms (HABs) or red tide. HABs in Nauset are caused by the phytoplankton…

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Teacher Workshop November 2001

Teacher Workshop November 2001 “Engineering for an Extreme Environment: Open-Ocean Moorings” Mr. Rick Trask, WHOI, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department In this talk Mr. Trask, a Sr. Research Engineer, posed the problem of establishing deep moorings for instrumentation in the open ocean, and led the participants through various solutions. With demonstrations and props he…

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Teaching the teachers about Sea-level Rise, Storms and Flooding

Woods Hole Sea Grant extension agents Greg Berman and Shannon Hulst teamed up with Education Specialist Grace Simpkins to share their knowledge and expertise with a group of educators at a day-long workshop in July. Looking at sea level data from the past and models of future conditions, Greg addressed how sea-level rise and storm…

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