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August 2020 Coastal Impacts Newsletter

  Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter AUGUST 2020 CONTENTS WHSG Supports Seven Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Projects 12 Weeks, Thousands of Kids: How NOAA Live! Connected Students to Science at Home Woods Hole Sea Grant Sponsors Three for Knauss Fellowship Is There a Market for Shucked Oysters? Eat an Oyster, Support a Local…

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Surf Clams

Surf Clams In the marketplace, one-year-old surf clams are known as “New England Butter Clams” – a relatively new product on the market. Farming New England Butter Clams means they can be harvested at a size in which they are tender, buttery and sweet – as well as easy and versatile to prepare. This results…

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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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Study Provides Measurement of Nitrogen Removal by Local Shellfish

Towns along Cape Cod and the Islands are looking to shellfish not only as tasty culinary treats, but also for help cleaning up waters degraded by excess nitrogen in the region. While nitrogen is essential for all plants and animals, too much nitrogen in ponds and waterways—often caused by fertilizer runoff and septic tanks—can fuel…

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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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