About 100 miles from the nation’s capital, near Taylor’s Island and Fishing Creek on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, hundreds of acres of dead trees stand upright, like toothpicks piercing the sky. They are among the mid-Atlantic’s largest “ghost forests,” woodlands rapidly converted to marsh because of sea-level rise. To learn more, click link here. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314607120
Check out our recent video about the Coastal CZN research project. Click link here.
In summer 2022, the Coastal CZ hosted the CZN All Hands Meeting in Delaware. Check out the amazing Vlog created by Dr. Alexandra Moore, CZN Coordinating Hub, The Pennsylvania State University that showcases the Coastal CZ students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty in the field – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVigS0DfEqM.
The Kirwan group at VIMS has developed a study to systematically evaluate the dynamic association between four decades of sea-level driven coastal landscape organization and ecosystem carbon pools along the rapidly warming and receding coast of the U.S. mid-Atlantic region. By integrating observations across traditional ecosystem boundaries, the results pointed to a fundamental decoupling between negative…
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Ghost forests are cropping up along parts of America’s coastline, particularly along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Trees are giving way to marshes and changing the very nature of the coastline, potentially making some areas more susceptible to erosion and storm surge. To learn more, click link here.
BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE IN MARYLAND—Coastal scientist Matt Kirwan has a sense of what it’s like to flee from rising seas. More than 100 years ago, Kirwan’s great-great-grandfather owned a farm close to this sprawling wetland refuge near the Chesapeake Bay, a key annual migration stop for hundreds of thousands of geese, ducks, and other waterbirds.…
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