Coastal Impacts WHOI Sea Grant Newsletter Summer 2026 Table of Contents SUBSCRIBE » Newsletter subscribe form ISSUE ARCHIVE » Read past issues of Coastal Impacts CURRENT ISSUE » "Coastal Impacts" home Register Now for the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Conference The Martha's Vineyard Coastal Conference will be held on Oct.…

Shucking an oyster can be intimidating. But with the right tools and a bit of instruction, you can master it! Let WHOI Sea Grant's marine team shows you how.

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...

Interest in aquaculture as a business opportunity brings a steady influx of inquiries to WHOI Sea Grant for technical and permitting assistance. The Fundamentals of Shellfish Farming class highlights ways someone could get involved with shellfish farming including creating a new farm, working on a farm, and ...

WHOI biologist Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser studies the colonies that settle around shipwrecks, looking at changes to the colonies over time as well as changes to the ship, including the impacts of large fishing nets and other gear that become entangled in the wreck. This “marine debris” can destroy whole sections of…

O-STEAM-Powered Drifters We're tracking currents in Cape Cod Bay over the next year using drifters! Starting this fall, we will release drifters once each season to collect real-world observations of the Cape Cod Bay circulation. How does the circulation pattern change during different seasons? How...

A graduate of UMass Amherst, Jori Barley is a 2024 Knauss Fellow in the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). One of NOAA Sea Grant's most high-profile fellowship, the John A. Knauss Fellowship provides a one-year, paid experience for highly-qualified early career professionals to work on issues related…

WHOI Sea Grant recently caught up with 2025 Knauss Fellow Lina Taenzer for a short interview.  Dive into the Q&A to hear about her life in D.C. and her experiences at NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observation office. 

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…

WHOI Sea Grant engages with MA coastal communities through marine research, education and outreach.

WHOI Sea Grant engages with MA coastal communities through marine research, education and outreach.

The National Sea Grant Office has selected 49 finalists from 26 Sea Grant programs across 26 states for the 2026 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program. WHOI Sea Grant has three finalists among this year's cohort: Shari Rohret, Nicole Vandale, and Nadège Aoki. Sea Grant's Knauss Fellowship places early-career…

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