environmental literacy
Blog Posts in Category: environmental literacy
Great Bay Cruise offers perspectives on the water
Tue, 08/09/2016 - 10:48am
This summer has been dry in New Hampshire -- so dry, in fact, that many Seacoast towns have enacted restrictions or bans on certain types of water usage. We're blessed with bays and the ocean nearby, and so it may seem easy to forget about the drought if you live near these waterways. Water samples taken on a recent science-based cruise into N.H.'s Great Bay told the real story, though.
Julia Peterson, water resources specialist with N.H. Sea Grant and UNH Cooperative Extension, led the...
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Plankton 101: The basics on Gulf of Maine plankton and why you should thank them
Tue, 06/07/2016 - 9:04am
Many of us know that plankton form the basis of the aquatic food chain, but aside from that, these miniature creatures are probably a bit of a mystery, right? Well, if you breathe air, then you should really take a closer look at these tiny aquatic powerhouses that create much of the oxygen we take into our lungs.
So what exactly are plankton? Plankton are microscopic organisms that are found in marine and freshwater, drifting with the currents because they are unable to swim against the force...
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