Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester Harper, New York, NY. $27.99, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 978-0-06-170258-7 (2010). Reviewed by Lee Bumsted In Atlantic, Simon Winchester sets out to write a biography of the...
Bruce Carlisle, acting director of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) since November of 2010, was appointed director in July. Carlisle has worked for the agency in several capacities since 1993 when he began as an intern. Following his graduate program at Tufts University, his internship ended and he moved on to...
The Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment will publish a new Gulf of Maine Action Plan in December that will be a web-based document. Since its inception in 1989, the GOMC has had a new plan every five years that outlines its goals and mission. This one will guide the council from...
Once again, the international Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment has recognized individuals, organizations and communities in the five jurisdictions around the Gulf for outstanding service through its Gulf of Maine Visionary Awards. Kathleen Leyden, director of the Maine Coastal Program at the Maine State Planning Office and 2010 Secretary of the...
“Imagine that you are the manager of a corporation. Now imagine that you know fewer than half the people who work for you and you have no idea what the other half does. In this situation, you can’t manage very well.” With this analogy, Lewis Incze, a biological oceanographer at the University of Maine...
Thinking sustainably, selling locally At a winter farmers’ market one recent Saturday in Brunswick, Maine, Gretchen Bates leaned over her griddle, flipping samples of her homemade fish, crab and salmon cakes. Curious shoppers, perusing the market’s offerings of eggs, potatoes, hot house-raised greens, baked goods and other fare available during the non-growing season, snapped...
