Our Initiatives

Take a peek at a this video of Tara Riley of the Town of Nantucket / Natural Resources Department, detailing some of our ongoing efforts to promote and preserve Nantucket Harbor and its marine Ecosystem.

We are proud to have supported the following initiatives:

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Ocean Acidification Buoy - Harbor Monitoring Project

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Microplastic Mitigation

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Nantucket Stormwater Sampling Program

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A Second Phytoplankton Photobioreactor for Brant Point Shellfish Hatchery

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Nantucket Public School’s STEM Curriculum

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Community Outreach

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Nantucket Harborshed and Groundwater Mapping

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Harbor Breach Study

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Pocomo Point Runoff Control

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Shellfish and Eelgrass Management Plan

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Sediment Transport and Dredge Plan

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Phytoplankton Photobioreactor

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FlowCam Cytometer

The flowcam allows the Town of Nantucket DNR to quickly enumerate and categorize the phytoplankton and algae communities of Nantucket.

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Shellfish Baseline Study

Re-establishing a long-term benthic ecological monitoring survey for bay scallops, channeled whelk, knobbed whelk, and eelgrass in Nantucket Harbor

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Our Initiatives

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