Urine Diversion Toilets: What’s It All About?
A Workshop for Curious Community Members May 30, 2024 Nitrogen entering our coastal and fresh waters is the main reason the water quality of the coastal water bodies on the [...]
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Wrangling Rainwater on the Homestead and other Landscape Choices for a Changing Climate
When it rains, it pours! This seems to be a common occurrence these days. Rainwater is a valuable resource and there are practical ways of managing stormwater on your own [...]
What’s Trending in Waquoit Bay?
Reserve’s monitoring data on seaweed and eelgrass as well as nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorous) and weather data and interesting trends and relationships in the Waquoit Bay estuary. How are climate changes [...]
What’s Up with the Water in Waquoit Bay?
One of Dr. Tyrrell’s first orders of business when she joined the Reserve this past fall, was to analyze the wealth of over 20 years of water quality monitoring data [...]
After Twenty Years, What Can the Waters in Waquoit Bay Tell Us?
The Waquoit BayWatchers volunteer citizen science program has over twenty years of temperature, salinity, depth, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll data for Waquoit Bay. The Reserve’s Research Associate Jordan Mora has [...]
Nitrogen Removal A Shell (or Shellfish) Game: Insights into Nitrogen Loading in Coastal Waters & Potential Remediation Strategies
Nitrogen pollution of our coastal waters is a threat to the health of our ecosystems, public health and economy. For the residents of Cape Cod, nitrogen remediation is a multibillion [...]
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria at the Beach
Antibiotics have revolutionized the way we treat bacterial infections. However, bacteria have increased their resistance to antibiotics partially due to the prevalent use of these chemicals by humans. Why are [...]
What’s Happening with Contaminants of Emerging Concern in our Coastal Waters?
The Center for Coastal Studies, in collaboration with several other organizations, including Waquoit Bay Reserve, has documented the presence of contaminants of emerging concern (from sources including pharmaceuticals and personal [...]
The Subterranean Estuary: An Unseen and Overlooked Boundary Between the Land and the Sea
This presentation will explore the Waquoit Bay subterranean estuary. This unique mixing zone between fresh and salty groundwater has been used over the past 25 years as a natural laboratory [...]
