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Author Archives: Jen Karberg
Using Wetlands to Improve Nantucket’s Coastal Resiliency
As an island in the Atlantic Ocean, Nantucket intimately understands the impacts of increased flooding frequency and storm events. For our community, adopting ways to increase our Coastal Resiliency is essential to maintaining quality of life, community function and ecological … Continue reading
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Nantucket Leaf Peeping…We DO have Fall color
Seeing the social media posts of family and friends off island in the autumn, it’s easy to think that Nantucket has drawn the short end of the stick when it comes to Fall Color. There was an instagram post earlier … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, Fall color, huckleberry, Medouie Creek, Nantucket
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Salt Marshes Buried Under Sand – Head of Hither Creek
**Update February 2019: Project Report on Hither Creek Hither Creek Washover and Salt Marsh Monitoring Report 2018 ** The photos and videos on social media October 30th, 2017 were dramatic. Ocean waves in Madaket washing over the dune separating Hither Creek … Continue reading
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The Winter Life of the Salt Marsh
*Please note, this blog post was originally published in The Inquirer and Mirror on January 19, 2017 in the article series called Island Ecology. The Foundation’s Science staff will be regularly contributing to our local newspaper and reprinting articles here … Continue reading
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Tagged detritus, fiddler crab, peat, salt marsh, salt marsh cordgrass, spartina, strom surge, winter storm
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Rare Wetlands in the Midst of an Old Trash Dump
*Please note, this blog post was originally published in The Inquirer and Mirror on August 11th, 2016 in the article series called Island Ecology. The Foundation’s Science staff will be regularly contributing to our local newspaper and reprinting articles here … Continue reading
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Tagged carnivorous plants, Nantucket, Sconset Dump, Sconset scrape, wetlands
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Nantucket Coastal Plain Pond Hydrology and Globally Rare Plants
*Please note, this blog post was originally published in The Inquirer and Mirror July 14th 2016 pg 4B in the article series Island Ecology. The Foundation’s Science staff will be regularly contributing to our local newspaper and reprinting articles here … Continue reading
World Wetlands Day 2016
February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, celebrated internationally every year since 1997 to commemorate the signing of the Convention on Wetlands in Ramsar, Iran. The Ramsar Convention represents a multi-national treaty which has facilitated work to survey, study, prioritize and conserve valuable … Continue reading
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Tagged #worldwetlandsday, cranberries, nantucket bay scallop, Ramsar, salt marsh, scallops, World wetlands day 2016
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Salt Marsh Dieback and the Purple Marsh Crab on Nantucket
Unexplained die off of salt marsh plants, particularly along creek edges and the low tide line, has become an increasing issue along the New England coast since the 1990s. Along marsh creek banks and harbor edges, salt marsh plants (particularly … Continue reading
What’s New In Nature: Flowering Goldenrods
Once the yellow of the goldenrod flowers begins popping up in Nantucket’s grasslands and through the road edges in the Middle Moors fall weather is not fall behind. Goldenrods are in the Asteraceae plant family – the largest plant family including … Continue reading
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