#gulf of maine

[colegove]

while it is possible for a negative leap second to be needed, this has not happened yet.

Because the Earth’s rotational speed varies in response to climatic and geological events, UTC leap seconds are irregularly spaced and unpredictable. Insertion of each UTC leap second is usually decided about six months in advance by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service

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7/7 - 14/2024

[shipwreckguy]

Three Girls

FV Three Girls burnt & sunk in Gulf of Maine; 6 rescued by USCG

Photo: United States Coast Guard On the night of August 12, the 81 foot long fishing vessel Three Girls (MMSI: 368140980) caught fire in the Gulf of Maine off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The groundfish trawler had departed from Boston and was positioned some 100 miles east of Portsmouth when the fire broke onboard the vessel. The United States Coast Guard received a distress call from the Three…

[stephscreativechaos]

I Am Not a Lizard

My youngest daughter is a lizard. That’s what her sister calls her because, like her father, she loves the heat. She thrives in it. She basks in. She goes jogging in it for Pete’s sake. Like her sister, however, I am not a lizard. If you put me in heat over 85F I tend to wilt. Like my oldest daughter, I am inclined to stay inside with the AC on and the fans going full tilt rather than subject…

[harveyspictures]

Crossing the Gulf of Maine Sept 19, 2022. All night run, crazy currents. But saw some puffins.

[mostlythemarsh]

Underway

[colegove]

Everything, every-thing, or every thing, is all that exists; it is an antithesis of nothing, or its complement. It is the totality of things

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6/12 - 17/2024

[rjzimmerman]

Hunters had extirpated Atlantic puffins in the Gulf of Maine by the late 1800s. Determined efforts since the 1970s have established a colony of 180 breeding pairs here on Eastern Egg Rock, in Muscongus Bay. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN SKERRY.

Excerpt from this story from the National Geographic:

Just as puffins and their companion species seemed to have made a remarkable comeback—three species of terns now number a thousand breeding pairs on Eastern Egg Rock—a new threat looms.

In a typical year, two-thirds of puffin chicks survive, but in 2021 on Eastern Egg Rock and the other islands, only a quarter to a third have made it. Lyons said breeding results from this summer’s observations of puffins are “strikingly poor.” Two years ago was “pretty good,” but “2020 was marginal, and this year was relatively catastrophic.” He attributes this to lack of good food, a direct result of warming waters caused by climate change, as well as overfishing of puffins’ preferred food fish.

Warmer conditions mean that baitfish puffins depend on may be going elsewhere. “We see less of their standard species, like Atlantic herring, sand lance, hake, and start to see more baitfish that are otherwise rare in the Gulf of Maine,” Lyons said. These include subtropical species such as butterfish and rough scad. That puffins are turning to these is “a sign that it’s tough going” for the birds.

Butterfish pose a problem when puffin parents bring them to their chicks, Lyons explained, because they’re deep-bodied, and the chicks have a hard time swallowing them. Nesting burrows can be littered with uneaten fish and chicks can sometimes starve, even though their parents have brought them plenty to eat. Other available fish, such as rough scad, “don’t have that issue of shape,” Lyons said, “but they are not particularly nutritious—their caloric density is not very high.”

[footloose-travel]

West Quoddy Head Lighthouse on the Gulf of Maine. This is the most easterly point in the US. Near Lubec, Maine

[floridaeastcoastsurffishing]

Eastman's Fishing Fleet - January 2020 - HADDOCK MASSACRE!!!

[mostlythemarsh]

Inshore

[geosophy]

grim.   everyone should have their local example of climate change for when that pesky topic comes up.  here in the gulf of maine the ocean ecosystem is churning faster than ivanka trump changes shoes.   

[colegove]

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

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April 28th- May 2nd 2024

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from NPR:

Each summer for the last two decades, Jim Parker has readied his small whale watch boat, and made a business out of ferrying tourists out into the cool blue waters of the Gulf of Maine.

For years, it was steady work. The basin brimmed with species that whales commonly feed on, making it a natural foraging ground for the aquatic giants. Whales would cluster at certain spots in the gulf, providing a reliable display for enchanted visitors to the coastal community of Milbridge, Maine.

But lately, the whales have been harder and harder to find. Waters in the gulf have been warming, sending the whales' food supply searching for cooler temperatures. The whales have gone with them. Some days this summer, Parker says he didn't spot a single one. Business fell 20%, forcing him to cut his season short.

At a time of accelerating changes in the environment brought on by climate change, Parker's struggles are a reflection of how coastal communities, their ecosystems and the businesses that rely on them, are being forced to adapt. It's a challenge that is only growing more urgent, according to a dire report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last month. The report found that over the last 25 years or so, oceanic warming has nearly doubled.

The changes have been especially pronounced in the Gulf of Maine, where data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch shows that waters are warming faster than 99% of the global ocean.

Temperatures in the gulf — which stretches from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia — are climbing for two principal reasons, researchers say. First, rising air temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations are causing oceanic warming worldwide. The U.N. says this warming has given way to a new phenomenon in the oceans: marine heat waves. Second, ice melt in Greenland is pumping fresh water out of the arctic, which has disturbed normal ocean currents in the region.

[universeinsideyourheart-blog]

A very playful humpback whale calf on a whale watch adventure.

[xaralite-blog]

Climate Change in Gulf of Maine causing depletion of Right whales

New study published in Oceanography has drawn attention to an imposing threat to Right whales from Gulf of Maine due to changing temperatures of deep waters and paucity of food.

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