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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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Review of Wastewater Dilution Modeling

Review of Wastewater Dilution Modeling Preface This report presents the findings and recommendations of an independent technical review of hydrodynamic modeling using the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) to simulate wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent dilution in Buzzards Bay and the North and South Rivers, Massachusetts. The review was commissioned by WHOI Sea Grant,…

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January 2019 Newsletter

Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter January 2019 From the Director You may be surprised to learn that nearly 90 percent of the seafood we consume here in the United States comes from abroad, and most of these imports are farmed products. As such, Sea Grant and other federal programs are promoting research and…

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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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Aquaculture and Acidification Project Photo Essay

Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension are responding to a question asked by members of the Massachusetts shellfish aquaculture industry – and that work is featured in an a photo essay on our website. The quahogs were placed into boxes dug into the sediment and a net placed over them to protect them…

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Bay State Aquaculture Projects Get Green Light from National Sea Grant Program

Two new grants to the Woods Hole Sea Grant program totaling more than $650,000 will support research aimed at expanding aquaculture production in Massachusetts. The projects won funding as part of a national strategic investment in aquaculture by the NOAA Sea Grant Program. “The United States is one of the world’s leading seafood consumers, yet…

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April 2021 Coastal Impacts Newsletter

  Coastal Impacts Woods Hole Sea Grant Newsletter APRIL 2021 CONTENTS Letter from the Director Partnership Invests $1M+ into Research on the Co-existence of Ocean Energy with Fishing and Coastal Communities Popular NOAA Live! Series Continues through June 9 Summer Program Trains the Next Generation of Women Scientists Getting Local Seafood to Those in Need…

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Woods Hole Sea Grant Awards Funds to Six New Coastal Projects

The Woods Hole Sea Grant program has awarded researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and other Massachusetts academic organizations funds for six new projects. The awards represent a total anticipated research investment of nearly $1.5 million over the next two years from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other non-federal matching funds. “We are proud…

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