Position: Ecological Restoration Specialist (Environmental Analyst II) Date of posting: 12/15/15 Closing: The position will remain open until filled. However, first consideration will be given to those candidates that apply within the first 14 days. The Ecological Restoration Specialist (Environmental…
Students from the Environmental Technology department of Essex Tech High School gave Plum Island a closer look this fall when they completed a field study project on the beach. Seeking to answer the research question: “Are engineered structures improving the…
New maps produced by the environmental consulting firm Woods Hole Group will provide the Great Marsh Resiliency Planning project with cutting edge, fine-scaled flooding and sea level rise scenarios in Essex County. The model, which uses data from Mass Department…
What makes a successful partnership? How can we utilize partnerships to accomplish common goals? These important questions were the focus of the first Parker-Ipswich-Essex Rivers (PIE-Rivers) Restoration Partnership annual meeting. On the morning of December 1, 2015, 17 partners including…
At the Great Marsh Symposium held in Essex in November, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management staff unveiled MyCoast: Massachusetts, a portal to collect and analyze pictures and data relating to coastal storms. By accessing the website or downloading the MyCoast…
Download the Flyer Join us on Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 (8:30 AM - noon) for the PIE-Rivers Annual Meeting. The environmental issues affecting our watersheds beg for solutions that span political and organizational boundaries. Across the country, regional partnerships are restoring…
The king tide is the highest predicted high tide of the year at a coastal location. This year, the main Atlantic/Gulf Coast king tide date is associated with the full moon on October 27. Sea level rise will make today’s…
Task force members from the Great Marsh Community Resiliency Planning Project met last week in Salisbury and Ipswich to review documents identifying each community’s vulnerability to climate-driven threats. Concluding the first phase of the two-year planning effort, this meeting was…
As part of the Great Marsh Resiliency Planning project, the National Wildlife Federation and Ipswich River Watershed Association convened a group of land conservation professionals and local Conservation Commissioners to take a look at places where salt marshes might be…
Thanks to the efforts of several Pie-Rivers partners, approximately 1400 acres of land in the Great Marsh will be conserved in the upcoming months. A $720,000 North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant was recently awarded to the Massachusetts Division…