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Here’s a link to our Oct 24, 2025 Newsletter.

It’s been a while since we updated this page… we have a slew of newsletter links to add between Oct 2025 and last year at this same time. We apologize for the posting gap. (Readers interested in ensuring that our website is always fresh should reach out to jbuckley@ccscr.org to let us know how you can help; thanks. 🙂

We took a moment this past Thanksgiving to share our gratitude for our growing engagement with area students, school partners, the town of Cohasset, neighboring watershed associations, colleges & universities, education leaders & foundations, and research institutions. Read our November 2024 newsletter here.

Cohasset’s story often begins in 1614 with Capt John Smith’s entry into our harbor. Read October’s Indigenous Peoples Day newsletter for a fresh look at this chapter.

Did you know there’s a Great Garbage Patch circulating around Boston Harbor Islands, one that’s bigger than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Read our September 22, 2024 newsletter here.

Our September 13, 2024 newsletter is all about the great work with Marine Invasives accomplished by our partners and teacher friends in neighboring Hull. Read our September 13, 2024 newsletter here.

Read about what was Meaningful to our students as they Experienced a variety of Watershed Education research projects. Read our Student Reflections here, from September 6, 2024.

See our amazing chemist, Dr Ann Thomae, teaching students how to extract chlorophyll-a. Check out this August 2024 newsletter and watch the video.

Check out this July 27 newsletter about monitoring pH, ocean acidification in MA and a lot more.

Is it safe to swim in our waters? Meet some of our dynamic interns answering this question, among others. Click here to read our July 15 Summer update.

Our July 3 newsletter featured our collaboration with MIT Sea Grant and ocean drifters that track surface currents.

On June 7, we celebrated World Oceans Day and featured our work with Osgood’s 2nd graders. Read all about it here on our June 7, 2024 newsletter.

Our May 31, 2024 newsletter introduced our Cohasset Wharf Interns, and we featured collaboration with Boston Public School students, charter school students from Rhode Island, and the marine debris grant that binds us together.

The prestigious Penner Conference at Thayer Academy! Read all about the conference and our student team presentation at the conference. Our May 10, 2024 newsletter is here.

We kicked off the month of May featuring “intertidal experiential education” with Codman Academy students and staff.

With summer soon approaching, we shared with readers “so many reasons to join a Varsity Research team” at CSCR; check out the depth and breadth of the research our students do.

Earth Day, 2024. “There is no away” when you throw trash away. Read our April 2024 newsletter here.

In early April and throughout March, we featured our State of the Harbor annual forum, the news of a Thoreau Scholarship winner, and the recognition received by our eel grass research team at the state science fair.

It was a very wet winter. Read more about our rainfall analysis, Feb 2024.

Our January 2024 newsletter is here. We kicked off the year “educating for a purposeful life.”

Find December’s “So Many Reasons to Support CSCR” newsletter here.

In November 2023, our newsletter featured CSCR’s leadership and collaboration with area schools and organizations to Build Regional Capacity; click here.

Read our earlier November newsletters highlighting student voices, here and here.

Click here to access our STREAM to Sanctuary newsletter, Oct 27, 2023 and Click here to access a related STREAM to Sanctuary newsletter, Oct 20, 2023.

Click here to access the October 13, 2023 Newsletter about our ongoing collaboration with Cohasset High School

Click here to access the Oct 6, 2023 Newsletter about Cohasset’s connection to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and a recent Navajo Nation water rights case in which the Supreme Court failed to uphold its treaty obligation.

Click here to read about our collaboration with Codman Academy; posted in our Sept 29, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the September 22, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the September 15, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the September 9, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the August 1, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the June 30, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the June 16, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the June 9, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the June 2, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the May 26, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the May 19, 2023 Newsletter

Click here to access the May 12, 2023 Newsletter