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SUMMARY:Researcher who found massive decline in blue mussels to speak at the Darling Marine Center
DESCRIPTION:Cascade Sorte\, a biologist who documented a massive decline in wild blue mussels in the Gulf of Maine\, will be at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole\, on Thursday\, October 6\, to present a “brown-bag” seminar. Her talk\, “Global change consequences and coping mechanisms in coastal marine systems\,” starts at noon. \nRecently\, Sorte’s research has received national media attention because of her findings that blue mussels have decreased by more than 60 percent over the last 40 years. Once covering two-thirds of the intertidal zone\, mussels now cover less than 15 percent. \n“It would be like losing a forest\,” Sorte\, an assistant professor at the University of California\, Irvine (UCI)\, told the Associated Press in September. \nBut the significance of her research goes beyond those alarming numbers. Climate change has already led to widespread changes in coastal marine systems\, according to Sorte. \nRecording how marine species have responded so far is a step toward understanding how they will—or won’t—survive in the future\, when changes in the coastal environment are predicted to accelerate. \n“There are several theories why the mussel decline happened—personally I think it is the result of green crabs—but before we can go very far into that line of research we need to know there is a widespread and distinct pattern\,” said Bob Steneck\, a University of Maine professor in the School of Marine Sciences\, who is based at the DMC. “Cascade Sorte’s work did just that. It will be the foundation for most future research in that area.” \nThe study\, which Sorte conducted with colleagues from UCI\, was recently published in the Global Change Biology journal. The presentation will be a return to Maine for Sorte\, who has been coming to the DMC as a visiting researcher since 2007. \nThe DMC is located at 193 Clarks Cove Road in Walpole\, and the talk will take place in Brooke Hall on the lower waterfront campus. Please bring your own brown bag lunch. \nThe University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center is the state’s hub for applied research for coastal fisheries\, aquaculture\, and environmental monitoring. For directions or more information about the DMC please visit our website dmc.umaine.edu.
URL:https://elh.umaine.edu/event/researcher-found-massive-decline-blue-mussels-speak-darling-marine-center/
LOCATION:Darling Marine Center\, 193 Clarks Cove Road\, walpole\, ME\, 04573\, United States
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