Resilience of cold water aquaculture: a review of likely scenarios as climate changes in the Gulf of Maine

IR Bricknell, SD Birkel, SH Brawley… - Reviews in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing development and continuation of
sustainable aquaculture in temperate regions. We primarily consider the ecological and …

Changes in the Gulf Stream preceded rapid warming of the Northwest Atlantic Shelf

A Gonçalves Neto, JA Langan, JB Palter - Communications Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Northwest Atlantic Shelf provides ecological and economic benefits along the
heavily populated North American coastline and beyond. In 2009-2010, abrupt warming …

Slow adaptation in the face of rapid warming leads to collapse of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery

AJ Pershing, MA Alexander, CM Hernandez, LA Kerr… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Several studies have documented fish populations changing in response to long-term
warming. Over the past decade, sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Maine increased …

Widespread methane leakage from the sea floor on the northern US Atlantic margin

A Skarke, C Ruppel, M Kodis, D Brothers… - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
Methane emissions from the sea floor affect methane inputs into the atmosphere, ocean
acidification and de-oxygenation,, the distribution of chemosynthetic communities and …

Observational needs supporting marine ecosystems modeling and forecasting: from the global ocean to regional and coastal systems

A Capotondi, M Jacox, C Bowler… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Many coastal areas host rich marine ecosystems and are also centers of economic activities,
including fishing, shipping and recreation. Due to the socioeconomic and ecological …

Recent warming and decadal variability of Gulf of Maine and Slope Water

D Seidov, A Mishonov… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of Maine, Scotian Shelf, Slope Sea, and
surroundings are determined by interplay of two major circulation systems—the Gulf Stream …

Warming and lateral shift of the Gulf Stream from in situ observations since 2001

RE Todd, AS Ren - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
As the poleward-flowing western boundary current of the North Atlantic ocean, the Gulf
Stream plays a key role in the climate system. Here we show that from 2001 to 2023, the Gulf …

Drivers of marine heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic: The role of air–sea interaction during onset and decline

RW Schlegel, ECJ Oliver, K Chen - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are increasing in duration and intensity at a global scale and are
projected to continue to increase due to the anthropogenic warming of the climate. Because …

Diagnosing the warming of the Northeastern US Coastal Ocean in 2012: A linkage between the atmospheric jet stream variability and ocean response

K Chen, GG Gawarkiewicz, SJ Lentz… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The temperature in the coastal ocean off the northeastern US during the first half of 2012
was anomalously warm, and this resulted in major impacts on the marine ecosystem and …

Seasonal trends and phenology shifts in sea surface temperature on the North American northeastern continental shelf

AC Thomas, AJ Pershing, KD Friedland, JA Nye… - Elem Sci …, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
The northeastern North American continental shelf from Cape Hatteras to the Scotian Shelf
is a region of globally extreme positive trends in sea surface temperature (SST). Here, a 33 …