by wpadmin | May 6, 2018 | EcoSystem Indicator Partnership |
On 9 June 2010, the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment released the State of the Gulf of Maine Report. The Council has recognised the need to tell people living and working in the region, as well as visitors to our shores, more about the current state of...
by wpadmin | May 6, 2018 | EcoSystem Indicator Partnership |
The State of the Bay 2010 report presents a comprehensive picture of the health of Casco Bay and its watershed. The report is available at http://www.cascobay.usm.maine.edu/sotb10.html The State of the Bay 2010 report, released in October, presents an assessment of...
by wpadmin | May 6, 2018 | EcoSystem Indicator Partnership |
David Keeley and Diane Gould While many people, organizations and events contributed to the development of ecosystem health indicators in the Gulf of Maine one can point to at least four key events. The first was the Atlantic Northeast Coastal Monitoring Summit that...
by wpadmin | May 6, 2018 | EcoSystem Indicator Partnership |
Justin Huston A key challenge that coastal decision-makers face is the disconnect between environmental information and socio-economic information. Most socio-economic info is collected and presented by political boundary (e.g. municipality, county, etc.) versus...
by wpadmin | May 6, 2018 | EcoSystem Indicator Partnership |
William Balch, David Drapeau and Bruce Bowler Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences East Boothbay, Maine Thomas Huntington U.S. Geological Survey Augusta, Maine Investigators at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (East Boothbay, Maine) and the U.S. Geological...
by wpadmin | May 6, 2018 | EcoSystem Indicator Partnership |
Lesley Carter and Kelly Cowper, Environment Canada Do you remember how coal miners used canaries to alert themselves of changes in the air quality when they were deep within the mines? How about using water canaries to do the same thing for our rivers? We all know...