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Coastal Resilience Week Stories

Our Stories of Resilience Stories are fundamental to the way humans make sense of the world. Telling stories about the changes we see in the environment around us increases draws us together through shared experience toward a common purpose. As part of Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week 2024, WHOI Sea Grant produced a pre-concert program…

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Coastal Impacts Newsletter – Aug 2022

  Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter August 2022 Education: Girls in Science Is Underway!  Research: High School Student Helps Develop “TideRider” VIrtual Buoy Extension: Teaching the Teachers About Sea-level Rise, Storms, and Flooding Meet Our Summer Interns Knauss Fellow Profile Graduate Research Fellows Focus on Microplastics and Seabirds Woods Hole Sea Grant Sponsors…

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The Ocean Enterprise Concept: A National Strategy for Resource Development

The Ocean Enterprise Concept: A National Strategy for Resource Development Ross, D.A., C.E. McLain, and J.E. Dailey Sea Technology, pp. 15-20, 1989 WHOI-R-89-019 In the late 1980’s less than 1% of the annual resources consumed in the United States comes from the sea. Yet the March 1983 Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Proclamation by President Ronald…

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The Swimming Behavior of Larval Oysters

March 2018 — Oysters are a species of profound economic and ecological importance, as they represent a hundred million dollar per year aquaculture and fishing industry in the U.S. and are a foundational reef-building species providing refuge to other marine plants and animals, in addition to stabilizing shorelines against storm surges and filtering pollution out…

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Understanding 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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