Over 90 percent of the world’s salt marshes will be underwater by 2100, according to a 50-year study of Great Sippewissett Marsh by scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory and
Brian L. Howes, a biologist who had a long and distinguished career in coastal and estuarine ecology, becoming a Chancellor Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine
Nutrient pollution in Waquoit and Popponesset Bays has reached a grim new milestone: Both bays now show impaired water quality throughout, with no high-quality areas remaining.
That is the latest assessment by Brian L. Howes, a scientist with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who has for years worked with the Town of Mashpee and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to analyze the impact of nitrogen pollution on local waterways.
âFor the first time in 20 years, I have nothing good to say,â Dr. Howes said during a presentation to the Mashpee Board of Selectmen in the Waquoit Meeting Room at Town Hall on Monday, July 26.