Sneak Peek Of The Off-Season

The Great Pond Foundation team works tirelessly year-round to fulfill our mission: To cultivate the resilience of our coastal pond ecosystems through science, collaboration, and education.

The work doesn’t slow down in the off-season for the science team. In 2024 we collected data from 19 ponds and we will continue our visits to 7 of the ponds in the off-season.

David Bouck installing elevation logger in the off-season.

Another task that continues during our off-season are our monthly trips to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole for example, this week Owen and Carly filtered nutrient samples at the MBL for our last run of 2024.

Filtering nutrient samples at MBL.

We are proud of our science team for their work both individually and collectively to complete our greatly anticipated annual science reports. These reports are made possible because of David, Owen and Carly who work hard at analyzing the collected data, finding trends, making graphs and communicating our findings in a comprehensive way.

Owen making graphs for pond reports.

Ready to dig into the science of pond health through our Ecosystem Monitoring Reports?  Explore the data from 2023 for Edgartown Great Pond, Tisbury Great Pond, Chilmark Pond and/or Watcha Pond! 

Find our EMR’s and Annual Reports together…