Climate Change in the Northwest Atlantic

Welcome to the conference blog for Climate Change in the Northwest Atlantic, April 26-27, 2007. This blog will follow the forum over its two days of multidisciplinary discussion. Our blogger, Scheherazade Fowler, will deliver as much of the presentations, questions, and discussion as she can capture. Participants can add comments, questions, or additional notes during or after the conference.

This meeting is intended to connect people who research the science and economics of climate change, people who write about science, and people who create policies that govern how humans interact with the ocean. Our goals are to explore how humans can adapt to changes in the ocean. Because our group is professionally diverse and this conversation is a new one, we hope to uncover provocative questions and thereby improve our own research and outreach efforts. This meeting is also the first collaborative project between the University of Maine School of Law, the Aquatic Systems group at the University of Southern Maine, and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. We hope this meeting sparks future collaborative research and public education projects.

The meeting is divided into four substantive discussions: Science, Economics, Policy, and Journalism. A wrap-up will conclude the meeting and help us decide what this group should do next. We invite you to participate by following this blog, organized by discussion theme, and by adding your thoughts and comments along the way. Welcome!