Johnson participates in sea level rise panel, Ellsworth American reports
The Ellsworth American reported that Tora Johnson, an associate professor of GIS and chair of the Division of Environmental and Biological Sciences at the University of Maine at Machias, participated in a virtual panel about sea level rise, hosted by Green Ellsworth. Johnson discussed the 100-year storm events that caused flooding in Machias in recent years, how rising sea levels threaten to submerge the downtown area in the next three decades, and community planning efforts she and other UMaine Machias officials are assisting in to bolster resilience.