A novel web aquarium showing declining fish populations over the past 100 years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/may/21/ocean-before-and-after-overfishing?guni=Network+front%3Anetwork-front+main-4+Pixies%3APixies%3APosition7 Print
Tide-borne pebbles on the seabed can drown out other ocean noises. http://www.livescience.com/34560-sounds-of-the-sea-stones-clanging.html Source for the story: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrc.20169/abstract Print
To help restore Great Bay and improve its water quality, the Nature Conservancy coordinates the Oyster Conservationist Program, a partnership of several groups. The University of New Hampshire grows the baby oysters, or spat, at the University of New Hampshire Jackson Lab, and The Nature Conservancy trains volunteers and helps them grow oysters. In...
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Planners are busy all around the Gulf of Maine region working out adaptation and mitigation strategies to protect public infrastructure, private homes and the environment in advance of sea level rise and predicted storm surges. But the planners are the first to admit that their plans won’t amount to much without the participation and...
‘Economic, demographic imbalance’ described by study By Tom Groening (From The Working Waterfront) Penobscot Bay is a distinctive estuary, easily recognized even in a photo taken from space. According to a recent study, it is “the largest, most ecologically diverse, island-filled bay in the Gulf of Maine.” Yet the people who live in the...
