2024 State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference

9:00 am-12:30 pm

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
2357 State Highway Route 6

Join us at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater for the 2024 State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference! Stay up to date on what's going on in the harbor and hear the results from studies and surveys taking place. 

Presentations

• Impacts of Crabs Eating Cape Cod Salt Marshes & Vegetation-Restoration Techniques by Stephen Smith, Plant Ecologist, Cape Cod National Seashore
• Herring River Restoration Project Update by Christa Drew, Friends of Herring River
• From Belding to Black Custard and Blister Worms: A Century of Scientific Research in Wellfleet Harbor by Own Nichols, Center for Coastal Studies
• Hole-y Shell! Investigation of Boring Sponge in Wellfleet Oysters by Tommy Tucker, Center for Coastal Studies
• High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza: The View from Global to Local by Wendy Puryear, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine
• Opening Up the Salt Marsh Restoration Toolbox at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary by Sara Grady, Senior Coastal Ecologist, Mass Audubon
• Status of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Wellfleet by Agnes Mittermayr, Center for Coastal Studies

Posters

• International Fund for Animal Welfare, Dolphin Rescue Center in Orleans
• An Update on Seasonal Monitoring of Mud-blister Worm Infection in Oysters from the Herring River by Drew Davinack, Wheaton College
• Horseshoe Crabs in Massachusetts by Mark Faherty, Mass Audubon
• Coastal Oceanography After School Team: A Survey of Duck Harbor by Nauset High School Students, advised by Katie Castagna, Center for Coastal Studies
• Summary of Nekton Populations in Duck Harbor Post Tidal Inundation by Matthew Bauer, Scientists in Parks Intern, Cape Cod National Seashore

After the Conference

Field Trip to International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Facility in Orleans
Anyone interested can sign up at the conference check-in table. Space is limited to 20 people.