The Maine Ocean Climate Collaborative Provides a Model to Move Maine Forward
May 11, 2023Studying changing coastal ecosystems comes with unique challenges – Friends of Casco Bay and our partners are taking them on. Friends of Casco Bay is facilitating the newly formed Maine Ocean Climate Collaborative, a coalition of scientists and marine organizations from the University of New Hampshire to the border of… Read more
Nab Data Suggest Land-Based Sources Contribute to Nitrogen Pollution
April 27, 2023166 volunteers collected water samples from Portland Harbor to help measure and address nitrogen pollution. Here is what we found. It was a sweltering summer morning on August 7, 2022 when 166 volunteers descended on Portland Harbor to collect water samples for nitrogen analysis. After sending the 178 samples collected… Read more
Mike’s Field Notes: Warm Winter Waters in Casco Bay
April 7, 2023In this 4 minute video, Staff Scientist Mike Doan breaks down the data from our Continuous Monitoring Station in Yarmouth that show this past winter was unusually warm for Casco Bay. In addition to watching Mike’s video, you can read about these data and the many impacts of warming waters (such… Read more
“Staggering” loss of eelgrass habitat in Casco Bay
March 24, 2023More than half of the critical and federally protected seagrass meadows in Casco Bay disappeared between 2018-2022. Eelgrass meadows in Casco Bay have declined in size by 54 percent over the past four years, a loss described as “staggering” in a new report from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). This… Read more
Continuous Monitoring Station Data Show Warm Winter
March 2, 2023If you were to swim in Casco Bay on a winter day, you would probably be thinking one thing: cold! But for marine life, it’s a different story. Especially this winter. Data from our Yarmouth Continuous Monitoring Station show Casco Bay is about 4°F warmer than the past seven winters,… Read more
Water Reporters document historic flooding
January 12, 2023On Friday, December 23, Water Reporter Brian Beckman looked out the window from his home in Phippsburg to see the West Point Wharf flooded at high tide. That day, the combination of an astronomically high tide and strong, southeasterly winds had the potential to cause much damage to the wharf.… Read more