"New Hampshire estuary research receives $4.5 million in federal funding"

"New Hampshire has lost 80 percent of its oysters in the past 30 years, and nearly as much eelgrass has disappeared. Kalle Matso is working to bring them back.

In May, Matso became the director of the Piscataqua River Estuaries Partnership, a collection of scientists, university researchers, municipalities, and other stakeholders on a mission to better understand the estuary in order to protect and restore it. In July, Matso learned the organization’s budget would more than double, with $4.5 million in additional federal funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law." READ MORE