by Max Holmes | Apr 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Falmouth Enterprise – Committee Recommends $30,000 Coonamessett River Monitoring Project The Coonamessett River will be one of three sites selected for a study of how river restoration can reduce nitrogen loading into Massachusett’s estuaries. Lead by researchers from...
by Max Holmes | Mar 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
In November of 2017, CCRO had to temporarily discontinue sampling between Lower and Middle bogs on the Coonamessett River due to a large scale cranberry bog restoration. Over the course of the last 5 months, crews have been hard at work building a new channel,...
by Max Holmes | Mar 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Over the weekend the Cape Rivers team presented a poster at Mass Audubon’s 23rd Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference. This one day event hosts talks and presentations from a diverse group of professional and citizen scientists, with topics ranging from river...
by Max Holmes | Feb 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
A recent article in TROUT, the magazine of Trout Unlimited, featured a story on sea run brook trout “salters” in New England streams. Several Cape Cod Rivers Observatory (CCRO) streams still maintain wild and native populations of these magnificent fish, and we’ll be...
by Max Holmes | Jan 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Cape Cod Rivers Observatory was featured on the front page of the January 20 issue of the Cape Cod Times. The article “Cape Cod Rivers Observatory Offers a Stream of Information” does an excellent job of capturing the motivation behind the project. We’re...
by Max Holmes | Jan 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
To continue our 2018 expansion, the Cape Cod Rivers Observatory began sampling the Pocasset River in Bourne on January 10, 2018. Like the Weweantic River, this site comes as part of our new partnership with the Buzzards Bay Coalition. The Pocasset River is a small...
