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Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries partner to invest $1 million to advance understanding of fishing community interactions with offshore wind development

The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, announces a research funding opportunity to improve understanding of fishing community interactions with offshore wind development in the Northeast U.S.

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January 11, 2024
Climate

Champions of Climate Adaptation

Leaders who are helping their coastal communities adapt to sea level rise, increases in heavy precipitation and flooding need additional technical, human and financial assistance to do so, according to a report by a 2014 New Hampshire Sea Grant Doyle Fellow.

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May 1, 2015
The Watershed Game
Extension

The Watershed Game

The Watershed Game is an interactive tool that helps community leaders understand the connections between land use, clean water and their community.  Participants learn how a variety of land uses impact water and natural resources and learn how their choices can prevent adverse impacts.  

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January 7, 2015
Community Adaptation Outcome Matrix
Climate and Hazard Adaptation

Community Adaptation Outcome Matrix

New Hampshire Sea Grant helped identify community adaptation strategies for the partner members of the Coastal Adaptation Workgroup (CAW), including a matrix of over 40 actions that communities can take to improve their climate adaptation capacity and implementation.

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October 28, 2014

WeTables

These are participatory mapping tools that a number of Sea Grant programs are using for community-based work addressing both climate and stormwater issues.

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October 28, 2014
StormSmart Coasts website
Climate and Hazard Adaptation

StormSmart Coasts Website

The StormSmart Coast website serves as a “resource for coastal decision makers looking for the latest and best information on how to protect their communities from weather and climate hazards” (http://stormsmartcoasts.org/)

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October 28, 2014
The Crow's Nest Blog
Climate and Hazard Adaptation

The Crow’s Nest Blog

Since 2011, New Hampshire Sea Grant has helped to develop and contribute to “The Crow's Nest” blog about climate adaptation in New Hampshire, which is available on StormSmart Coasts, as a tool to communicate timely information about events and resources available to communities related to adaptation

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October 28, 2014
The Watershed Game
Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

The Watershed Game

The Watershed Game is an interactive tool that was developed by Minnesota Sea Grant as part of the Northland Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) program to help participants understand the connection between land use and water quality, as well as the degree to which implementing best management practices across land uses and sectors within a watershed is critical for reaching a water quality goal.

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October 28, 2014
Lawn Campaign Mind Map
Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

Lawn Campaign Mind Map

This tool was used to illustrate how social science findings could be used in a watershed wide non-point source pollution reduction campaign.

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October 28, 2014
Lawn care information sheet and brochure
Education

Lawn care information sheet and brochure

These tools are the result of a multi-state, integrated Sea Grant /Cooperative Extension coordinated project that supported both turf and social science research to reduce nitrogen losses from turf care and maintenance by do-it-yourself'ers.

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October 28, 2014
UNH Cooperative Extension Agent Charlie French
Extension

Marketing locally caught seafood in New Hampshire

New Hampshire Sea Grant is heavily involved in research and extension efforts to address the best way to market seafood and keep fishermen financially afloat, including providing resources for direct market seafood sales and research into retailer and consumer preferences on seafood.

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September 15, 2014
Coastal Research Volunteer members measure American eels. Credit: New Hampshire Sea Grant
Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

New Hampshire Sea Grant’s Coastal Research Volunteers Help Researchers See the Big Picture

Steve Jones Associated Director of New Hampshire Sea Grant founded the Coastal Research Volunteers with the goal to provide volunteers with opportunities to engage in meaningful science and to benefit scientific research in the region. The program has been going strong for three years and is an overwhelming success, with volunteers helping researchers collect data they would otherwise be unable to collect. 

 

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January 30, 2014
NHSG-funded research at the University of New Hampshire is revealing more information about pathogenic Vibrios in oysters to prevent human illness. Credit: Rebecca Zeiber
Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

Vibrio research in Great Bay: a complex problem

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are studying two illness-causing species of bacteria found in oysters to obtain a more detailed understanding of microbial life on the half-shell.  The ultimate goal is to minimize risks to human health without having to close shellfish beds for long periods of time.

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January 17, 2014
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