To improve water quality in Apponagansett Bay, the Buzzards Bay Coalition is offering significant subsidies to qualified homeowners to hook into existing sewer lines.
On the Bay Articles
Because the scientists found that sand is deposited mostly during storm events from offshore, they predict that these Dartmouth areas will be affected even more with the progression of climate change and its greater storm frequency and intensity.
Autonomous loggers capture the fluctuation of data within the day, based on factors such as sunlight, wind, and tidal activity.
Projects will benefit the Agawam River and Little Buttermilk Bay in Plymouth, Wareham, and Bourne.
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.
Engineering design is expected to be completed this summer and dredging the fall of the following year.
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.
Once a year, the New Bedford Harbor shipping channel closes so that hundreds of swimmers can cross the harbor in this one-of-a-kind scenic point-to-point open water swim. Registration has opened for the 33rd annual Buzzards Bay Swim, which will take place on Saturday, June 20, beginning at Cisco Brewers Kitchen and Bar in New Bedford, go across New Bedford Harbor, and finish at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven.