Hurricane Planning Workshop
MIT Sea Grant and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency will be hosting a hurricane planning workshop on November 9 & 10, 2015 at the NOAA Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office in Gloucester, MA. This two-day performance-level…
Citizen Science effort Summer on the Marsh showcases regional data
Last weekend kids from up and down the coast of New England attended a virtual summit to share data they collected this summer. The citizen science program, Summer on the Marsh, run by the New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative,…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Preliminary Closure on the harvest of oysters
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Preliminary Closure on the harvest of oysters in Duxbury Bay, Bluefish River, and Back River in the Town of Duxbury; Plymouth Harbor, in the Town of Plymouth; and Kingston Bay in the Town…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries AnnouncesPreliminary Closure on commercial harvest of oysters
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has preliminarily closed Katama Bay in Edgartown, MA to the commercial harvest of oysters.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has confirmed three additional cases of Vibrio parahaeomlyticus…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas
The Division of Marine Fisheries has determined that bivalve shellfish from Salt Pond in the Town of Eastham no longer contains biotoxins from phytoplankton in excess of established standards. Therefore, they have rescinded the DSP closure for…
2016 Northeast Region Ocean Acidification RFP
Northeast Sea Grant College Consortium Call for Preliminary Regional Research Proposals on theImpacts of Ocean Acidification on Key Coastal Marine Resource Species in the NortheastThe Northeast Sea Grant Consortium (consisting of the Sea Grant…
MIT Sea Grant led team advances to next phase of the Wave Energy Prize Contest
Team IOwec, led by MIT Sea Grant's Assistant Director of Research Dr. Stefano Brizzolara, will advance to the next level in the highly competitive Wave Energy Prize Contest put on by the U. S. Department of Energy.The team designed an Inertial…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas
As of sunrise on Wednesday July 15, 2015, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is closing Salt Pond in the town of Eastham, MA to all shellfishing due to a phytoplankton bloom of Dinophsis sp. which is known to produce okadiaic acid the…
Eastern Region Spring Quarterly now available
NOAA's Eastern Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook is available now.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas
Per the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, as of sunrise on Thursday June 11, 2015 they are lifting the PSP closure in the Nauset system, specifically growing areas OC:2 through OC:6,for all shellfish species except moon snails. If…
