MAINE MONITOR • March 19, 2023
What can you do that will matter the most?” The simple answer: You can help scientists observe and track the effects of climate change, providing data that shows this change is here and happening, informs better predictions, and helps us to adapt our food system, infrastructure and more. “[Researchers] could just never approach anything close to the volume that you can get if people from communities all over the state are out there in their backyards and in public parks and other places observing these changes,” said Beth Bisson, who helps lead Maine Sea Grant and the University of Maine’s phenology program, Signs of the Seasons.