Chasing Ancient Hurricanes in Oyster Pond and Beyond
Dr. Jeff Donnelly, the featured speaker at the OPET 2017 Annual Meeting. His talk titled “Chasing Ancient Hurricanes in Oyster Pond and Beyond" revealed how he uses sediment cores [...]
2017 Newsletter
2017 Newsletter Chasing Ancient Hurricanes in Oyster Pond and Beyond Presented by Dr. Jeffery Donnelly, Senior Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution- OPET Annual Meeting Thursday July 27th Doing all [...]
2017 OPET Annual Meeting
Is a Changing Climate Impacting the Intensity and Frequency of Hurricanes? Find out at the Oyster Pond Environmental Trust (OPET) Annual Meeting on Thursday, July 27th at 7pm. Dr. [...]
750 Cubic Yards Dredged from the Lagoon!
Many thanks go out again to Chuck Martinsen, Deputy Director of the Town of Falmouth Marine and Environmental Services!! He coordinated the huge effort to have the Lagoon dredged [...]
Oyster Pond’s Algal Bloom contained Toxin Producing Algae
OPET’s worries about the health risks of last summer’s algal bloom were confirmed by a student’s research project. Kristy Sullivan, an undergraduate at Kristy Sullivan's Powerpoint presentation [...]
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT!
The water quality of the pond is improving! The nearly 2 inches of rain in mid-September and the opening up of Trunk River helped flush out much of the [...]
CAUTION ENTERING THE WATER
The massive blue-green algal bloom impacting Oyster Pond is not going away despite our initial efforts working with the Town to increase the outflow of Trunk River. The bloom [...]
2016 OPET Annual Meeting
“From A to Zika, Mosquito Control on Cape Cod - What you need to Know” is the title of the featured talk at the Oyster Pond Environmental Trust’s (OPET) [...]
2016 Newsletter
2016 OPET Newsletter The Headwaters of Oyster Pond - An Exciting Update by Wendi Buesseler Flushing Oyster Pond to Improve Water Quality by Bill Kerfoot Fixing Trunk River and [...]
2015 OPET Annual Meeting
Fairy shrimp, wood frogs and spotted salamanders seem like mythical creatures, but these are some of the real animals that depend on vernal pools. Come learn about these ephemeral [...]