April 27, 2019
\n10 a.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m.
\nCambridge Public Library
\n449 Broadway
\nCambridge, MA<\/p>\n
10:00-10:10 Welcome and overview<\/p>\n
10:10-11:15 11:15-11:30 Break<\/p>\n 11:30-12:30 12:30-1:15 Networking Lunch<\/p>\n 1:15 Adjourn<\/p>\n
\nLong Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Sentinels of Change
\nTatiana Rynearson<\/a>, University of Rhode Island; Hugh Ducklow<\/a>, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Anne Giblin<\/a>, Marine Biological Laboratory
\nThe best way to understand environmental change is through long-term monitoring. LTER sites and their research objectives are tailored to the most pressing and promising questions for each location. Speakers from LTER sites on the New England Coast, Alaska, and the waters around Antarctica will describe their driving research questions and how their research is clarifying our understanding of climate change impacts in coastal and marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n
\nShifting Fisheries: Implications for Economies and Ocean Health
\nColeen Suckling<\/a>, University of Rhode Island; Andrew Pershing<\/a>, Gulf of Maine Research Institute; Robert Boenish<\/a>, EDF
\nWarming ocean waters affect commercially important finfish and shellfish species in many ways, from changes in reproduction to increased susceptibility to disease. Speakers will discuss field- and lab-based investigations into these changes, and what the results could mean for ocean health, communities, and the seafood industry.<\/p>\n