Excess Nutrients Lead To Dramatic Ecosystem Changes In Cape Cod’s Waquoit Bay, A Harbinger For Estuaries Worldwide

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with associated travel restrictions, Matthew Long thought his students could shift their overseas research projects to instead study the seagrass meadow ecosystem in Waquoit Bay. It’s a shallow, micro-tidal estuary on the south side of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, near the Woods Hole...