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Too Much of a Good Thing
Summer Student Fellow Claudia Mazur, of Mount Holyoke College (foreground), together with WHOI guest student Alec Cobban sampled sediments under oyster aquaculture sites in West Falmouth Harbor this summer. Both were working in WHOI…
Read MoreVolunteer for Science
High school student Alec Cobban works inside a sterile environment in WHOI scientist Virginia Edgcomb‘s lab, setting up a method to amplify and examine genes involved in nitrogen metabolism. This…
Read MoreLong Row to Hoe
From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a research team led by WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield looked into clam farming and the biology of softshell clams in a large harbor in Barnstable,…
Read MoreClass Field Trip
Students from a course entitled “Fundamentals of Shellfish Farming” offered by Woods Hole Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension hiked out to the tidal flats to tour a shellfish aquaculture operation…
Read MoreHow the Clam Garden Grows
In October 2013, Woods Hole Sea Grant–Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma (left) and a shellfish grower examined the growth of “blood arks” (Anadara ovalis), on Cape Cod, Mass.…
Read MorePass the Oysters
Woods Hole Sea Grant/Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Agents Joshua Reitsma and Abigail Archer help distribute bags of shell that contain oyster seed, also known as spat, to towns for municipal…
Read MoreFloating Snack Bar
Trailed by gulls hoping for a quick snack, the fishing boat Decisive heads for harbor at Chatham, Mass. Scientists at WHOI’s Marine Policy Center and Woods Hole Sea Grant are…
Read MoreFleet at Rest
Fishing boats tied up at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in June 2009 await their next trip to sea. A recent Morss Colloquium titled “Does it matter where we get our seafood?”…
Read MoreSeafood Supply Discussed
In May, Hauke Kite-Powell of the WHOI Marine Policy Center convened a range of experts in a colloquium to discuss economic and policy aspects of U.S. seafood supply, trends in…
Read MoreSpotlight on Seafood
A fishing boat passes by Nosbka Point on its way into Woods Hole. The subject of seafood supply is the topic this week of the Morss Colloquium at Woods Hole…
Read MoreFrom one village to another
Hauke Kite-Powell (at left in baseball cap), a Marine Policy Center research specialist, hosted a group of visitors this summer from the island of Zanzibar off Tanzania, where he is…
Read MoreRaising shellfish
Women from Unguja Ukuu-Tindini on the island of Zanzibar off Tanzania examine a shellfish farm that they are learning to set up and tend. Hauke Kite-Powell, a Marine Policy Center…
Read MoreBlue mussels
Diane Poehls Adams, a guest investigator in the Biology Department, cultures blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) from larvae to mature adults in an effort to learn which are most successful in…
Read MoreReef Watch
A clownfish swims amid the corals of the Red Sea, where WHOI researchers are planning to team with colleagues from Saudi Arabia to examine a reef system that has mostly…
Read MoreFarming in the Ocean
Will Ostrom (blue hard hat), a senior engineering assistant in the WHOI Department of Physical Oceanography, and Joe Alvernes, a crewmember of the fishing vessel Nobska, scrape mussels from a…
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