Salt marshes exist in a narrow plane between low and high tides. For decades, coastal ecologists have worried that marshes may not be able to “keep up” as a warming climate causes sea level to rise faster. A new study has found that East Coast marshes, including those at the mouth of the Kennebec River, are in fact keeping up…for now.
Nat Weston, lead author of the study, was a research assistant at the Marine Biological Laboratory when I was a student there in 1998. The marshes of Plum Island Sound, where we worked together monitoring salt marsh growth, are now a Long-Term Ecological Research site.
Read the story in The Working Waterfront.
Catherine Schmitt 