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Knauss Fellow Profile: Katie Sperry

Hometown: Northampton, Massachusetts Area of research focus/interest: Restoration ecology of coastal habitats What are you doing during your Knauss Fellowship? I’m placed in NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center (RC) for my Knauss Fellowship. Here, I get to see how ecosystem restoration is coordinated and funded at a federal level. Critically, the RC’s…

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First Coastal Acidification Monitoring Blitz in the Northeast

Join the first coastal acidification monitoring blitz in the Northeast – Aug 22 and 23, 2019 Shell Day aims to engage water quality monitoring organizations by focusing on coastal acidification measurements during a “blitz” throughout the New England coast on August 22 & 23, 2019. This citizen science collaboration will raise awareness of the opportunities…

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Shrink Wrap Recycling Program

Boat Shrink Wrap Recycling Program WHOI Sea Grant partners with Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and transfers stations at towns across the Cape to recycle boat shrink wrap. Through this partnership we have identified a reliable recycler and a protocol for meeting the guidelines established to recycle this type of plastic. Collection Program for Residents -…

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