Science in the Seashore Symposium

 

The 2025 Science in the Seashore Symposium hosted by the Cape Cod National Seashore’s Atlantic Research Learning Center and sponsored by the Friends of Cape Cod National Seashore will take place on September 25, 2025 from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham, MA. The event is free and open to the public and will be available to an in-person audience as well as to remote attendees through Microsoft Teams.

The Science in the Seashore Symposium is a great opportunity to learn about the scientific research at Cape Cod National Seashore from the experts working in the park. There will be seven engaging presentations with opportunities to ask questions. Topics include the biodiversity of the Nauset estuary, research on marsh restoration, monitoring coastal change, butterfly diversity, and study of ceramics as a tool to learn about history.

Register for the virtual event here: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

 

 

Schedule of Presenters

9:30 - Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:40 - Owen Nichols - Seasonal distribution and relative abundance of fishes and invertebrates in Nauset Harbor

10:00 - Meagan Eagle - Consequences of historic wetland impoundment and implications seawater flooding after a century of tidal restriction

10:20 - Mikayla Roderick - What’s that Sherd?: Identifying Diagnostic Historic Ceramics

10:40 - Liana DiNunzio - Migration ecology of Cape Cod's juvenile whimbrel

11:00 - BREAK

11:15 - Brad Lopes - Two-Eyed Seeing and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge

11:35 - Scott Rasmussen - Tracking the shifting shoreline: How coastal parks are changing over time

11:55 - Mark Faherty - “Fourth of July” Butterfly Surveys: Diversity and Abundance Trends for the Outer Cape and National Seashore

12:15 - Q&A and Discussion

12:45 - Closing Remarks