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Report Nantucket Bat Sightings!

June 23, 2015

GOT BATS? We want to hear of your sightings! Zara Dowling, a graduate student at UMass-Amherst, received a research grant from the Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative this spring to study and…

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Welcome Back, Old Friends!

March 21, 2014

Spring is a special time on Nantucket for those of us who live here year round. The days are getting longer, and there is a bit of light at the…

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Exploring Squam Forest with UMass Boston "Nantucket Semester" students

March 3, 2014

This winter, Nantucket Conservation Foundation’s Science & Stewardship Research Technician/Field Supervisor Kelly Omand has been working with two students from the UMass Boston “Nantucket Semester” program that links in with our…

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What are those towers on Coatue and Eel Point all about?

June 27, 2013

The automated radio telemetry station in First Bend on Coatue (the flags on the guy wires are to prevent birds from flying into them). During the past few weeks, we…

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