Department of Environmental Conservation

 
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As part of a documentary on the background behind Peter Weir’s maritime masterpiece, “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.”, Alexander Schreyer (Lecturer and Assistant Program Director in BCT) conducted several tests on Live Oak, a wood species that gave the USS Constitution the nickname “Old Ironsides”.
In these tests, which were filmed by the production company Blink Films UK, [...]

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Learn about Environmental Considerations for Offshore Wind Farms in the Caribbean: A Puerto Rican Case Study.
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Many communities in Massachusetts own land, but the citizens aren’t always sure what types of natural resources are on it or what their conservation options are.  This spring semester, the “Natural Resources Inventory of Local Lands” class developed natural resource inventories for the 53-acre Bill Rivers Conservation Area in the town of Leverett and a [...]

UMass Fisheries Biology alumnus John O’Leary, 1974 AS, 1977 BS, 1984 MS has been appointed by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel to a newly created federal advisory committee on climate change adaptation science. John is a staff member of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) See below full federal press release:
 
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