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Shifting research effort away from the famous flagship, the Bigelow

Apr 25, 2023 | Over the Bar, News

The Bigelow, launched in 2005, is named after a remarkable man, Henry B. Bigelow, who helped create Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. As a scientist he spent a lot of his life on the water trying to understand fish. As a teacher he spent a lot of his life trying to impart that understanding at Harvard University and in books like “Fishes of the Gulf of Maine.”

So it’s fitting that a vessel built with noble intent, to create a platform for the best science to understand species and stocks, climate change, and all kinds of oceanographic realities, would be named for him

New policy maven is a familiar face

Mar 29, 2023 | Fish Tales, News

Although it was more than a decade ago, Aubrey Ellertson Church has clear memories of standing at the Chatham Fish Pier with other fisheries observers waiting to be picked up by boats they were assigned to that day.

Church lived outside of Boston at the time, working out of ports from Maine to New Jersey gathering data about fishing trips used to help monitor the health of fisheries.

“I remember Chatham being a cool port to go into,” she said.

Annual meeting focuses on science and economics

Mar 29, 2023 | Plumbing the Depths

Years ago, researchers were looking for butterfish off Cape Hatteras because that is where they were supposed to be at that time of year. Fishermen told them the fish were in the Gulf of Maine.

“None of the academic oceanographers had heard of that,” said Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution senior scientist Glen Gawarkiewicz.

Oceanographers also thought melting ice in Greenland, caused by climate change, would bring cold fresh water from the north to the continental shelf. Fishermen said the opposite was happening. The fishermen were right.

WaterWORKS showcases wealth of blue opportunities

Mar 29, 2023 | Aids to Navigation

Take a piece of paper, grab a pencil, and draw a scientist — or draw one in your mind’s eye. Is “he” holding a test tube, wearing a white coat, standing in a lab and looking like crazy-haired Doc Brown from “Back to the Future”?

That image is far too limiting and not at all what Sarah Oktay, executive director of the Center for Coastal Studies, wants people to conjure.

Walter Baron’s boatbuilding is ‘a niche within a niche’

Mar 29, 2023 | Charting the Past

Forty years ago — that Old Testament number meant to connote a long time (raining 40 days and nights, wandering in the desert 40 years) — Walter Baron built his workshop on a side road in Wellfleet. He knew what he wanted to do, he did it, and he still does:

Build boats.

PHOTO GALLERY: Learning about aquaculture in Hawai’i #2

Mar 29, 2023 | A Day in Photos

Hawai’i has invested in aquaculture to promote the islands’ food security and diversify the economy, to find out more we visited two key facilities supported by the state. Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center (PACRC) is a unique coastal facility that supports aquaculture and marine science programs at the University of Hawai’i Hilo. PACRC research and education activities focus on growing native ornamentals, foodfish, and oysters, as well as aquaculture technician workforce training for 20 to 30 students annually and restoration of native species

Shifting research effort away from the famous flagship, the Bigelow

New policy maven is a familiar face

Annual meeting focuses on science and economics

WaterWORKS showcases wealth of blue opportunities

Walter Baron’s boatbuilding is ‘a niche within a niche’

PHOTO GALLERY: Learning about aquaculture in Hawai’i #2

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