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Mapping Katama Bay’s Restless Sands
Boaters on Martha’s Vineyard know navigational maps of Katama Bay become obsolete very quickly. Why do the sands at the bottom of the Bay shift so much and so often? Katama Bay has two inlets. Water pours in from Vineyard Sound through Edgartown Channel, and from the Atlantic Ocean through Katama Inlet. The size and…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Waquoit Bay Ecosystem
A Q&A with Sarah Foster Sarah Foster is a Boston University graduate student doing her dissertation research in Waquoit Bay (Cape Cod, Massachusetts). A biogeochemist, Sarah investigates the impact hypoxia, or low oxygen, in the water has on crucial functions within Waquoit Bay’s ecosystem. She recently published research she and her co-author, Wally Fulweiler conducted in…
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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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Shellfish Research » Identification of the cause of hemic neoplasia in Mercenaria mercenaria and development of management methods NRAC-USDA Fall 2017 – Fall 2019 » Market Development to Diversify Shellfish Aquaculture Products in Massachusetts NOAA SG Aquaculture Initiative: Addressing Impediments to Aqua. Opportunities Sept. 2017 – Sept. 2019 » Piloting surf clam aquaculture techniques to…
Read MoreMolecular Analysis of a RAPD Marker (B20) Reveals Two Microsatellites and Differential mRNA Expression in Penaeus vannamei
Molecular Analysis of a RAPD Marker (B20) Reveals Two Microsatellites and Differential mRNA Expression in Penaeus vannamei Garcia, D.K., A.K. Dhar, and A. Alcivar-Warren Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 71-83, 1996 WHOI-R-96-001
Read MoreThe Little Fish with a Big Impact
In the Gulf of Maine, there’s a little eel-like fish not much bigger than a large pencil, that buries itself in the sand in the summer and swims up and down in the water column in the spring and fall. It’s called a sand lance and it’s incredibly important to the ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine. If you like whale watching, this little fish is the biggest reason you might or might not see a whale:
Read MorePerigean Spring Tides — Predicting Potential Disasters: How Tidal Information May Save You From a Coastal Crisis
Perigean Spring Tides — Predicting Potential Disasters: How Tidal Information May Save You From a Coastal Crisis Helpful to educators and students. Giese, G.S. Marine Extension Bulletin, 2 pp., 1998 WHOI-G-98-007
Read MoreTechnology 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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Seasonal Changes in Groundwater Flow Into the Coastal Ocean Fresh water from water tables under the land flows out into the coastal ocean from beneath the seabed, a flow known as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD). Researchers have found that such flow can have a very large impact on estuaries. Groundwater carries land-generated nitrogen compounds, plus…
Read MoreHow Do Sharks Respond to Internal Waves in the Ocean?
A new study provides insight into the behavior of small sharks when encountering a common ocean phenomenon known as internal waves. These waves play powerful and still unknown roles in the exchange of heat, energy, water properties and nutrients throughout the ocean, and can change the vertical distribution …
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