Oysters feeling the heat: Interview with News Center Maine

Media coverage of our ongoing extreme event work
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October 22, 2024

News Center Maine recently spoke with myself and my PI Easton White about our ongoing work building modeling tools to understand the impacts of extreme thermal events (heatwaves, coldwaves) on oyster populations in New Hampshire. The video attracted my first climate change denialist troll in the comments, which I feel may be a right of passage.

Despite what some youtube comments would let you believe, the world’s oceans like the Gulf of Maine are rapidly warming due to the exponential release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from human activity.