Derrick Z. Jackson: Despite Climate Change
The title of supervisory wildlife biologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service does little justice to Linda Welch. In practice, she is the housing and unusual development secretary for seabirds on Maine’s Petit Manan Island.
August 24, 2022 · 4 Comments
Derrick Z. Jackson: A Big Climate Warning from One of the Gulf of Maine’s Smallest Marine Creatures
Often likened to a grain of rice, this “copepod”—or microscopic crustacean—is the keystone of the sub-polar food web that makes the Gulf of Maine one of Earth’s richest marine ecosystems.
February 18, 2022 · 4 Comments
Derrick Z. Jackson: We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work.
Seabirds are climate change prisoners. Our inaction makes us the executioners.
January 14, 2022 · 2 Comments