• Atlantic Ocean beach at Cape Cod National Seashore

    Cape Cod

    National Seashore Massachusetts

Monitoring and Research

experimental enclosure in East Harbor

List of ongoing monitoring and research projects in East Harbor:

 

Monitoring

  • water quality - Krista Lee (NPS)
  • hydrology (tides) - Kelly Chapman (NPS)
  • phytoplankton, midges, bacteria, biogeochemistry - John Portnoy (NPS)
  • vegetation - Stephen Smith (NPS)
  • fish & decopod crustaceans - Holly Bayley (NPS)
  • benthic invertebrates - Jodie Wennemer (Antioch University)

 

Research

  • the potential for two missing herbivores (Littorina littorea and Ilyanassa obsoleta) to limit macroalgae growth in East Harbor (Stephen Smith, NPS)
  • the effect of Mya arenaria (soft-shelled clam) on sediment chemistry and the growth of macroalage in East Harbor (Victoria Rubino, Antioch University)

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Did You Know?

Old Harbor Life-Saving Station, Provincetown, MA

The Old Harbor Life-Saving Station in Provincetown, MA is one of the few surviving, unaltered life-saving stations left in the country. The station was built in 1898 and is open in the summer months with a display of rescue equipment, and NPS staff re-enact the historic Breeches Buoy rescue drill.