Update: Ocean and Coastal Acidification in Maine project

Master’s student Parker Gassett provides an update on a Mitchell Center-funded project titled “Ocean and Coastal Acidification in Maine: Expanding Community Resilience Through Citizen Science, Outreach, and Education.” The project is led by Aaron Strong, assistant professor, School of Marine Sciences and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow. Gassett, a dual Marine Policy/Marine Biology major, is a team member on the project.

Reports Gassett, “In the past few weeks we have presented with the Mid Atlantic Coastal Acidification Network through their webinar series—Series # 2 Webinar #1 MACAN Citizen Science Webinar, Minute 8—and, on December 13, I joined a call and presented our work with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 through the Regional Tribal Organizations conference call led by the EPA.” Gassett’s topic was Community Monitoring and Citizen Science.​

“There has been much enthusiasm regarding this project,” Gassett notes. “Importantly, materializing for Spring, 2018, are tractable improvements for Ocean Acidification education & outreach and citizen science participation in Coastal Acidification monitoring.”