Buzzards Bay Coalition

🌿 This Week at Ocean View Farm! 🌿

Our team has been hard at work surveying the vibrant vegetation and animal life to help monitor and measure the health of our beautiful marsh ecosystem. Stay tuned for more updates! 🌱

We are days away from the ASICS Falmouth Road Race, and Team Buzzards Bay is gearing up to make every mile count for our Bay.

Tony Williams, our Director of Monitoring Programs, will be running in support of clean water. With the race just around the corner, now is the perfect time to help Team Buzzards Bay cross the finish line.

You can donate to Tony's race, the team by clicking the link below, or show your support by cheering them on this Sunday! 👟💪

Meet Tony Williams: Running for a Cleaner Buzzards Bay Discover why Tony Williams, Director of Monitoring Programs, runs for clean water and how you can support Team Buzzards Bay in the 52nd running of the ASICS Falmouth Road Race.

Great food for a great cause: dine-in or take-out from Joe's Original in Dartmouth on Tuesdays in August, and 15% of your purchase will be donated to the Coalition. Tremendous thanks to Joes Original Kitchen + Bar for their partnership!

This past weekend, we had the honor of welcoming the historic Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey back to the Onset Pier for the first time in 20 years! It was a spectacular addition to the Cape Verde Festival, and we were thrilled to host the incredible crew at the Onset Bay Center.

🌊 A week full of Bay Adventures! 🌊

First up was our Surfcasting Bay Adventure on Gooseberry Island, where 9 anglers of all ages joined us for some fishing fun. 🎣

Later in the week, families gathered at the Hawes Family Learning Center at the Sawmill for an enriching story-time presented by Gloria from PACE Child Care Works. 📚 She read The Cloud Book, captivating the kids' imaginations with its engaging illustrations. ☁️✨

After story-time, we hit the trails and discovered sweet pepperbush, an American toad, an American dagger moth, russula mushrooms, and more! 🌿🐸🍄

If you want to join us on one of these Bay Adventures visit the link in our bio or savebuzzardsbay.org/activities/bay-adventures/

Caught some incredible sights during monitoring last week—the Acushnet River was teeming with large jellyfish! 🌊

We are now seeing debris from the mid-July windmill blade failure off the coast of Nantucket wash ashore on our Cuttyhunk Island Reserves. We've also spotted floating pieces all the way into Buzzards Bay near the Cape Cod Canal while aboard the R/V Buzzards Baykeeper.

This is absolutely unacceptable and Vineyard Wind - the company responsible - must clean it up. The company has established a hotline for people to report debris for their crews to come clean up. Help us make sure Vineyard Wind picks up their mess by calling in all observed debris.

The Vineyard Wind Debris Reporting Hotline: 833-609-5768

We are strong supporters of offshore wind. Climate change is already destroying our Bay's vital salt marshes and warming water is making pollution cleanup more difficult. The development of large-scale, clean, renewable energy is critical if we are going to Save Buzzards Bay, and nothing is more capable of doing that in our region that offshore wind. But that doesn't mean Vineyard Wind (or any wind company) can litter our Bay and shores. They must do better to prevent this from happening again, and the first step is to clean up this mess right now!

Sunset (or Sunrise) Sunday this week from Quissett Harbor! 🛥️🌊

Keep sharing your favorite sunset or sunrise moments from the week with us! DM us your stunning shots or drop them in the comments below, and be sure to share the location where you took the photo. 📸👇

Photo Credit: Freddie Estremera. thank you for sharing this beautiful photo! 🌅📷

August's FREE Bay Adventures are here! Tag a friend to join you for some unforgettable end of summer fun! 🌤🌻

Sign up for one of these free activities at savebuzzardsbay.org/activities/bay-adventures/

In the mood for lobster salad and mudslides? So are we! The Coalition will be at the iconic Chart Room at Kingman Yacht Center in Cataumet this evening. Stop by to join or renew your membership, learn about the difference you can make for the health of the Bay, and pick up one of these new stickers, too!

🌞🐾 Outhounds Adventure: Summer Beach Day at Gooseberry Island! 🌊

Thank you to all who joined us for a pawsome day filled with sun, sand, and sea 🐶✨

Stay tuned for out next Out Hounds Adventure at savebuzzardsbay.org/activities/bay-adventures/

🌅 Exciting News! 🌅 Sunset Sundays (or Sunrise Mondays) are back! 📸

Share your favorite sunrise or sunset photos with us throughout the week for a chance to be featured in our weekly post!

Don’t forget to tell us where in the beautiful Buzzards Bay Watershed you captured your stunning photo. Let’s celebrate the natural beauty of our watershed together! 🌊

Last Saturday, we had an incredible time at The Sawmill's Glow Trek Adventure! 🌟 We lit up the trails with glow sticks, marveled at the fireflies, and enjoyed the chorus of northern green frogs and American bullfrogs.

It was a night filled with fun, wonder, and great conversations about nature and wildlife.

If you’re looking for more exciting experiences like this, check out the upcoming Bay Adventures here: savebuzzardsbay.org/activities/bay-adventures/.

Hope to see you at the next adventure!

It was a beautiful morning for some Water Quality Monitoring! 🌅🌊

🌿 Exciting News! 🌿

Our very own Restoration Ecologist, Sara Quintal, was featured on Channel 5 discussing the impacts of climate change. 🌍

She highlighted the incredible work being done at the Mattapoisett Bogs to help mitigate these effects.

Check out the full story and learn more about our efforts by clicking the link below! ⬇️

Boston research shows the growing cost of climate change in Mass. A recent report is raising more concerns about taxpayer costs as the temperatures rise

Our 18th Annual Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride registration is open!
Use code SAVE20 now until July 31st for $20 off registration.

If you register now through July 31st, you will be entered to win an official 2024 RIDE Jersey.

Increase your chances and refer a friend. Just be sure they list your name on question 5 as the person who referred them! The winner will be notified on Thursday, August 1st.

Click the link to sign up today!
savebuzzardsbay.org/ride

The Buzzards Bay Coalition’s Horseneck Point Life-Saving station will soon welcome a new replica lifeboat from Newport’s IYRS School of Technology & Trades.

Click the link below to read more!

New Lifeboat Coming to Horseneck Point Life-Saving Station The Buzzards Bay Coalition’s Horseneck Point Life-Saving station will soon welcome a new replica lifeboat from Newport’s IYRS School of Technology & Trades. The new replica is based on the Race Point Surfboat, the closest design to the original lifeboats that once patrolled the waters off Horsen...

Here's the updated flyer for our July Bay Adventures. Check out the new details and join us for more outdoor fun! 🌞🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️

ICYMI - Award-winning actor Sam Waterston partnered with the Coalition on a video reminding residents that nitrogen pollution from septic systems continues to put serious stress on the Bay’s ecosystem. Watch and share with your friends and neighbors!

Septic Systems, Nitrogen Pollution Stress Buzzards Bay Ecosystem Nitrogen naturally occurs in Buzzards Bay and other waterways, but when overly abundant, it fuels the growth of algae – algae that robs fish, shellfish, eelg...

Mattapoisett Bogs Wetland Restoration Update: Shaping of the restored bog cells and seeding of the upland areas wrapped up less than 2 months ago and the site is vegetating nicely!

A big thank you to our project partners, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and the MA Department of Fish and Game, Division of Ecological Restoration (MA DER) for technical expertise and funding!

Between 2006-2022, there were 639 reported oil spills in New Bedford Harbor, the vast majority of which originated from the discharge of oil contaminated bilge water.

Last month, the Coalition secured funding to advance plans to establish a permanent bilge collection site to service the commercial fishing fleet.

Click the article below to learn more

Tackling a Sticky Issue in New Bedford Harbor The Coalition continues to focus on water quality across Buzzards Bay’s numerous harbors and coves, including New Bedford Harbor – the busy commercial port that hosts more than 400 fishing vessels and a burgeoning offshore wind energy industry. It’s also the only Bay harbor plagued with a chro...

This past Tuesday was the first of 4 nutrient water sampling days collected by the Buzzards Bay Coalition's “Baywatchers” volunteers for its 33rd consecutive monitoring season.

These community volunteers collected, filtered, and delivered a record breaking 232 water samples in one day to the Marine Biological Ecosystems Laboratory in Woods Hole!

These water samples provide nutrient analysis results from our local harbors from RI to Martha’s Vineyard and throughout Buzzards Bay.

The Buzzards Bay Coalition uses this data in its efforts to protect clean water and reduce the impacts caused by excessive Nitrogen Pollution.

Looking for a fun activity to enjoy the beautiful weather tomorrow? Look no further!

Join us for sailing trips on our beginner and family-friendly course. Sail aboard our 12-person Drascombe Gig and discover Onset Bay like never before! 🌞⛵️

To sign up use the link below:
https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/buzzardsbaycoalition/items/450424/?full-items=yes&flow=926392

BBC partners at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) designed an easy to build, low-cost robot intended for coastal water quality monitoring. It is called TideRider because, by controlling whether it is on the surface or the seafloor, TideRider opportunistically harness natural currents to move in a controlled way (e.g., toward a specific area of a harbor).

This summer, WHOI engineers will be testing TideRiders equipped with dissolved oxygen, temperature, and salinity sensors to measure water quality around Onset Bay.

The data will be compared with six sensors that BBC and the Woodwell Climate Research Center are putting out at docks around Onset Bay and to data collected by Baywatcher volunteers.

We have until midnight tonight to unlock a $100K matching gift from an anonymous donor. Will you help? All dollars raised will directly support Buzzards Bay Coalition's Onset Bay Center's on the water programming through the purchase and operations of the Bufflehead, a 26' Oldport launch critical to getting more young people out on the water. https://www.savebuzzardsbay.org/take-action/donate/donate-now/

Although the SWIM didn't go as planned there is so much to celebrate! Our SWIM Community raised over $202,000 and brought much needed awareness to the complexities of our Bay Health and the need for continued action to protect it. THANK YOU to our sponsors, swimmers, kayakers, volunteers, donors and staff for the important work that you do through this SWIM.