Maine Boats and Harbors publishes essay by Maine Sea Grant’s Schmitt

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors published the essay “Why We Love the Ocean” by Catherine Schmitt, communications director of the Maine Sea Grant. The essay describes the psychology behind human attraction to water and draws from a large and growing body of literature on the history, science and philosophy of human connections with the natural environment. Schmidt published a selected bibliography of this background literature on the Maine Sea Grant blog.