If everything ultimately is connected, as we often hear, certainly all the stories in this issue of the Times would seem to prove that statement.
Naturally, anything to do with the Gulf of Maine inevitably concerns the ocean, but many issues and technologies that affect or explain important things about the ocean seem increasingly and importantly interrelated.
We have stories on sea floor mapping, which is a new and important tool that will inform practices such as adaptation and advance planning for climate change, offshore energy siting and the Gulf of Maine Council’s own Action Plan–three of our other stories.
All these activities eventually will affect the education of students about environmental issues in the future—effective education as seen in the picture essay by John Terry about the Gulf of Maine Institute’s summer program.
In our book review of Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, we learn the author includes the history of ‘new’ technologies that are now old and reviews how long we used the Atlantic as a dumping ground.
If the planet has suffered from the misuse or overuse of environmentally unfriendly technologies, it should benefit from the increased development and use of non-invasive, data-rich technologies. And we will continue to tell you about them.
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