State of the Bay
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2015 State of the Bay Conference Agenda
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
Our Changing Bay: Casco Bay 2015
Tuesday, October 15, 2015
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel | Ballroom Entrance | South Portland, Maine
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2015 State of the Bay Report
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
The Casco Bay Estuary Partnership helps track and report on changing conditions within the Bay and its watershed. Every five years, in its State of the Bay report, the Partnership portrays how Casco Bay is faring—what trends are evident, what progress is visible, and what new challenges are emerging. By tracking indicators at regular intervals over decades, the Partnership helps identify the collective work needed to sustain the region.
State of the Bay 2015, summarized here and detailed online at www.cascobayestuary.org/state-of-the-bay-2015, reveals a complex array of factors shaping the ecology and economy of the Casco Bay region. There’s a mix of encouraging news, interspersed with unsettling trends. The warming climate represents a vast and unpredictable driver of regional change—with hotter ocean and air temperatures, more frequent and extreme precipitation, and rising seas (already evident in flooding at extreme high tides).
Indicators used in the past (and included in the 2015 report) do not fully account for the dynamic interplay of forces currently at work on Casco Bay. Future reports will include new indicators to help gauge the pace and impacts of far reaching change.
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2015 State of the Bay Summary Flyer
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
The Casco Bay Estuary Partnership helps track and report on changing conditions within the Bay and its watershed. Every five years, in its State of the Bay report, the Partnership portrays how Casco Bay is faring—what trends are evident, what progress is visible, and what new challenges are emerging. By tracking indicators at regular intervals over decades, the Partnership helps identify the collective work needed to sustain the region.
State of the Bay 2015, summarized here and detailed online at www.cascobayestuary.org/state-of-the-bay-2015, reveals a complex array of factors shaping the ecology and economy of the Casco Bay region. There’s a mix of encouraging news, interspersed with unsettling trends. The warming climate represents a vast and unpredictable driver of regional change—with hotter ocean and air temperatures, more frequent and extreme precipitation, and rising seas (already evident in flooding at extreme high tides).
Indicators used in the past (and included in the 2015 report) do not fully account for the dynamic interplay of forces currently at work on Casco Bay. Future reports will include new indicators to help gauge the pace and impacts of far reaching change.
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Multiple acid pathways in Casco Bay: Implications for the next 25 years (2015 State of the Bay Presentation)
Joe Salisbury, D. Vandemark, C. Hunt, and S. Shellito
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2010 State of The Bay (Fact Sheet)
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
The State of the Bay report presents an assessment of the overall health of Casco Bay and its watershed. Produced every five years by the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, the report aims to assemble available information on the condition of Casco Bay and make it readily available to the watershed’s community at large. The report is also intended to provide insight to guide future efforts to benefit Casco Bay, its watershed, and the region’s human and natural communities.
