Kelp Declines in the Gulf of Maine

This summer, I was lucky enough to be part of a paper with colleagues at Bigelow, Maine DMR, and UMaine put out a paper using causal inference techniques to show that warming is causing kelp loss throughout the Gulf of Maine, this despite the potential to rebound after urchins declined in the system. Today, I was delighted to see the work featured on the the front page of the Boston Globe! It’s a great article by David Abel talking to many of the authors and our colleagues about the piece, and I think I get some fun quotes in there!