The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative (MRECo) assisted with installing a groundbreaking microplastics (MPs) and harmful algal bloom (HAB) sensor called HABStats to track MPs and HABs through the Cape Cod Canal and onward into Buzzards Bay that may have originated in the region around the Deer Island Treatment Plant in Boston. As part of a NOAA Phase II SBIR contract, Dr. Scott
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As part of the research project, “Assessment of the Tidal Energy at a Demonstration Site: Cape Cod Canal, MA,” University of Rhode Island ocean engineering doctoral student Soroush Kouhi and three other students went out to the Bourne Tidal Test Site (BTTS) to retrieve an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) that was deployed for one month to take water column
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The first of its kind in the US, the Bourne Tidal Test Structure is being moved by barge today to Cape Cod Canal for installation. The barge, owned by AGM Marine, Inc. departed from New Bedford at day break. The installation company, AGM Marine (Mashpee and New Beford), will drive three piles in the first three days and assemble the structure
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