By Dan WalmsleyWalmsley Environmental Consultants Climate change will have many impacts on human populations. The Gulf of Maine has already experienced changes that will impact on human populations. Weather patterns in the Gulf of Maine have undergone changes. There has been an increase in average summer and winter land temperatures. Increased precipitation, more extreme...
By Peter WellsInternational Ocean Institute and Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University Emerging issues are defined by Munn et al. (1999) as “an issue positive or negative, which is not yet generally recognized but which may have significant impact on human and/or ecosystem health in the 21st century… an emerging issue is associated with one...
By Kent Gustavson Raidho Resource Consulting Ltd. Coastal habitats found in the Gulf of Maine include: salt marshes, mudflats, seagrass beds, kelp beds, shellfish beds, rocky and cobble shore, and sandy shore. The structure and function of coastal ecosystems are threatened by several pressures that can have important impacts. Increasing population, economic growth and...
By Janet NyeNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The atmosphere and the oceans are warming. These changes are altering the physical oceanography and the ocean chemistry of the Gulf of Maine. Changes in sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity have been observed. The rate of increase of coastal SST in the Gulf of Maine is...
Creating consistent terminology, sharing existing science and generally cooperating to find ways to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change are among the goals of the newly-formed North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NALCC). “At its foundation is the partnership of state and federal agencies and NGOs that have agreed to work together...
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...
