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NCF Annual Meeting Featuring Northern long-eared bat Research – Thursday August 5th at 5pm

By Danielle O'Dell | July 29, 2021

The Nantucket Conservation Foundation will be hosting its 57th Annual Meeting of Membership on Thursday, August 5th at 5 pm at the Nantucket Hotel on Easton Street. We are pleased...

The Science of Pond Management

By Karen C. Beattie | July 19, 2021

It’s mid-July on Nantucket, and a number of harmful algae blooms (or HABs) have already been documented within the island’s freshwater ponds. In past years, this phenomenon has occurred later...

Piping Plover Chicks Eel Point 2017 By ECB

A Safe & Fun 4th of July on Coatue

By Neil Foley | July 1, 2021

Here's your friendly annual reminder before the 4th of July this weekend. The weather doesn't look superb, but our threatened shorebirds on Coatue are still in need of protection, space,...

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Join us this Thursday at 5pm for our Annual Meeting at the Nantucket Hotel. Hear what the Foundation has been up to this past year and learn about Nantuckets regional importance for rare bat protection from our keynote speaker!

Finding seasonal housing on Nantucket can be a chore, but sometimes you get lucky!

While surveying for Saltmarsh Sparrows for @sharp_birds , @_neilfoley came across a Virginia Rail nest. These cryptic marsh birds weave a canopy out of living marsh grass to help shade and camouflage their eggs.

Check out the #tidalmarshbirds research and @sharp_birds program at tidalmarshbirds.org

New Blog Post! Our Annual Meeting is next week, Thursday 8/5 at 5pm at the Nantucket Hotel on Easton St. Our keynote speaker this year is Sam Hoff, a PhD researcher studying Northern Long-eared Bats, the diseases affecting them, and the importance of coastal refuges like Nantucket in maintaining healthy populations.

This event is free and open to the public! Join us next Thursday for an insightful talk and an update on the Foundations activity this year.

Follow the link in our bio to read more!

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Fragrant Water-lily (Nymphaea odorata) are blooming beautifully in kettle ponds around the moors. Nantucket is home to many of these lily-sporting ponds that serve as reminders of our glacial formation. Go see these beautiful sights tucked in shrubby thickets and between rolling drumlins.

Yellow (CCH) is the last banded American Oystercatcher chick for the 2021 season. Every year we help out the American Oystercatcher Working Group by banding and re-sighting our Oystercatchers on Nantucket. We were able to band a total of 26 chicks! If you are ever on the beach and see one of these birds with bands please report your sighting to the amoywg.org. Reported sightings are crucial for this study, as we are still learning how far they migrate and their population status just from resights alone. Some of our Nantucket birds have traveled as far as Nicaragua and Ecuador!

Your weekly Harmful Algal Bloom update for 7/22. There is a current HAB occuring in the at Gibbs Pond, and Clark’s Cove has an algae beginning to bloom all along the pond. Keep all people and dogs out of this pond to prevent poisoning from algae-produced toxins.
Watch out for small shallow ponds in the Middle Moors as blooms are seen occasionally in ponds people can’t reach but dogs can.
Photo #3 is an example of a small pond in the Middle Moors – be sure to look out for these when letting dogs roam free. Because they are shallow and isolated, they can suddenly have blooms, so be alert.
For more information and ways to report a bloom, visit the Town of Nantuckets Harmful Algal Bloom webpage, our science blog, as well as our partners in algae monitoring @nantucketlandcouncil & @nantucketlandbank

Out now! Part one of the @americaadapts podcast episodes about the Coskata-Coatue wildlife refuge and the threats it faces from climate change.

This episode features great interviews with NCFs own Cormac Collier and Neil Foley along with other experts, locals, and historians (@natphilbrick and members of @thetrustees )to tell the story of this amazing piece of Nantucket.

Find it through the link in our bio or search for America Adapts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen!

📸: @abovesummit

New Science Blog! Karen Beattie covers some specifics about treating ponds to combat Harmful Algal Blooms. She runs down the pros and cons of several options to chemically or physically prevent HABs as well as the work currently in store for some of Nantuckets problem ponds.

Read more through the link in our bio!

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Preserving the Island for Everyone

What's Happening

NCF Annual Meeting Featuring Northern long-eared bat Research – Thursday August 5th at 5pm

The Science of Pond Management

A Safe & Fun 4th of July on Coatue

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Scientific Research & Education

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