This event is free and open to the public. Attend in person or register virtually with Abbot Library Speaker: Jennifer Polinski, Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Senior Research Associate Presentation: Sequencing the Sea: How environmental DNA can reveal an ecosystem's hidden biodiversity Talk Description: Oceans cover over 70% of our planet, representing 99% of its “living” space, and… Read More »Underwater In Salem Sound Lecture Series

Collins Cove and Bridge Street residents – we want to hear from you!   The City of Salem has been awarded a grant from the Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) to continue designing flood alternatives for the Bridge Street/Collins Cove Park communities. This neighborhood was identified and prioritized for the development of resilience strategies to… Read More »Resilient Together: Collins Cove Park Neighborhood Public Meeting 

Join Salem Sound Coastwatch to talk about flooding at Collins Cove Park and the neighborhood. Go to https://arcg.is/bemmD to take a survey to report past flooding events in the neighborhood. Thanks for your participation. We will meet at the Gazebo next to the Pickleball Courts.

Join SSCW's Community Engagement Manager, Susan Marsh, for a two-part workshop to use words, pictures, and numbers to record your nature observations, questions, connections, and explanations in a journal that you make. You do not have to have an art background to join us! Feel free to join one or both workshops at our office. All materials… Read More »Morning Nature Journaling (Part 1)

This event is free and open to the public. Attend in person or register virtually with Abbot Library.  Speaker: Barbara Warren, Salem Sound Coastwatch Presentation Title: Saving our Shoreline Talk Description: Since 2018, Barbara Warren, Salem Sound Coastwatch’s Executive Director, has been providing a yearly update on local climate adaptation efforts and the state of the… Read More »Underwater In Salem Sound Lecture Series

Join SSCW’s Community Engagement Manager, Susan Marsh, for a two-part workshop to use words, pictures, and numbers to record your nature observations, questions, connections, and explanations in a journal that you make. You do not have to have an art background to join us! Feel free to join one or both workshops at our office. All materials… Read More »Morning Nature Journaling (Part 2)

Join Salem Sound Coastwatch at Stramski Beach in Marblehead for a clean up! Gloves, pickers, and trash bags will be provided. Please RSVP to info@salemsound.org

The horseshoe crabs are coming! Starting in late April, horseshoe crabs return to Salem Sound to spawn along our shores. This virtual training session will prepare you to become a horseshoe crab community scientist! You’ll learn about the horseshoe crab’s unique features and how to use our online survey to report horseshoe crab sightings. We… Read More »Horseshoe Crab Community Scientist Training – Zoom