Weather Station at Fair Acres Country Day School — Making Science Fun
For any project, gathering data is vital – how else can we understand the results of our efforts? For the Shubael Pond Innovative and Alternative Septic System Project, it is important for us to be able to measure how much wastewater and rainwater is flowing into the ground. It is also critical to understand and […]
Note from the Helm
We’ve all heard the saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” At the core of this proverb is the idea of partnership. Stellar results in business and in life usually have partnerships at their foundation, which has proven to be the case for BCWC’s work […]
Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) Atlantic population: Threatened (Massachusetts status and Federal status) They are a protected species under the Endangered Species Act as of January 10, 1986 and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 Northern Great Plains: Threatened Great Lakes Population: Endangered Summer on Great Plains and along Great Lakes Winter along Gulf […]
Dead Neck Sampson’s Island Dredging
Dead Neck Sampson’s Island (DNSI) is a barrier island south of Grand Island in Osterville that is co-owned and managed by BCWC and Mass Audubon. Years of erosion and longshore drift has resulted in sand from the eastern tip (Dead Neck) moving and collecting down at the western end (Sampson’s) of DNSI. Consequently, the Cotuit […]
Coalition Quarterly – Issue 14 (Winter 2021)
Coalition Quarterly – Winter 2021 Newsletter Click on image to read more >>
Volunteer Spotlight
Volunteer Spotlight: Chuck Gifford What is left to do when you already spend your time fishing, cycling, hiking, acting, traveling, sailing, and volunteering for the Rotary Club? For Chuck Gifford, the answer was volunteering with BCWC – and we are the luckier for it. One day, Chuck saw our posters advertising for herring count volunteers […]
Why We Support BCWC
Why We Support BCWC: David Abelman & Marilyn Weil-Abelman After spending many years visting the ponds on Cape Cod with their then young children, David Abelman and his wife Marilyn decided to make Long Pond in Marstons Mills their Cape escape. “Here on Long Pond, you would never know you were in the hustle and […]
Environmentalists Buy Surplus Oysters to Boost Shellfish Industry and Restore Imperiled Waterways
Environmentalists Buy Surplus Oysters to Boost Shellfish Industry and Restore Imperiled Waterways CapeandIslands.org CAI | By Eve Zuckoff Published December 29, 2020 at 11:17 AM EST Local oyster growers are getting a boost after months of restaurant closures have “torpedoed” the industry, according to one grower. The Nature Conservancy, a Boston-based environmental group, and its […]
Summer Staff on the Move
For three summers now, BCWC has grown oysters in an upweller demonstration project on Hyannis Harbor in partnership with the Massachusetts Oyster Project and the town of Barnstable. The tiny oyster spat are only 1-2mm (the size of a grain of sand) when first placed in buckets in the upweller. They filter phytoplankton (algae), nutrients […]
Marstons Mills Cranberry Bog Restoration
In December 2019, BCWC, the EPA and TNC co-hosted the Marstons Mills Cranberry Bog Restoration Workshop. This workshop, attended by 47 scientists and regulators from the local, state, and national level, focused on identifying nature-based strategies to reduce the amount of nitrogen travelling through the cranberry bogs at the headwaters of the Marstons Mills River. […]