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Traditional Relationships

A group from WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group, including Katie Castagno (grey shirt) and Michelle O’Donnell (far right), led a field lesson this summer for Mashpee Wampanoag students as part of an ongoing summer camp entitled “Native Use in Science.” The camp is designed to to connect tribal youth with the ecology and geology of their traditional homelands on Cape Cod. The team from WHOI demonstrated their work examining sediments in local ponds and marshes to reconstruct a history of storms in the Northeast U.S. stretching back 1,000 years.(Photo by Stephanie Madsen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)