Autonomous loggers capture the fluctuation of data within the day, based on factors such as sunlight, wind, and tidal activity.
On the Bay Articles
Projects will benefit the Agawam River and Little Buttermilk Bay in Plymouth, Wareham, and Bourne.
Engineering design is expected to be completed this summer and dredging the fall of the following year.
Deidre Tao gifted her painting Little Sippewissett Marsh to the Coalition as a thank you for our land protection and conservation work. It is being displayed in the learning center at the New Bedford headquarters.
Join Lilia Bartolotta, our Bay Science research assistant, as she collects water samples and records data for our monitoring efforts.
The Coalition's Hans Brenninkmeyer Fellow for Coastal Research will study seagrass-sediment interactions and eelgrass habitat restoration.
Runnels were used successfully at two Buzzards Bay sites—Ocean View and Little Bay—to restore important salt marsh habitat by restoring tidal flow while not “dramatically affecting sediment characteristics or rates of carbon decomposition.”
Restoration efforts at Marsh Island, which began nearly three years ago, have brought five acres of salt marsh on this peninsula back to life.