Sea Level Rise and Climate Committee News
2023
Vinalhaven SLR Committee members along with Downtown Master Plan author George Kendrick talk with Maine Public's Kevin Miller about sea level rise on Vinalhaven as part of Maine Public's Climate Driven series.
Vinalhaven high school environmental science students and teacher Dan Ganoza, along with members of the Vinalhaven Sea Level Rise Committee, join North Haven high school students, teacher Kim Rosenbaum, and members of the North Haven Climate Working Group for a sea level rise planning workshop with Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI).
2022
The TideTrackers project is featured in the Maine Monitor's Unstoppable Ocean climate change series.
2021
A Portland Press Herald and Boston Globe series of articles about the impact of climate change on the Vinalhaven lobster fishery.
News Center Maine's Don Carrigan visits Vinalhaven to learn about how Sea Level Rise is affecting the island and how we are planning to address impacts.
The fifth film in the Island Institute's ongoing climate-related documentary series, A Climate of Change: Sea Level Rise follows our community, over a two-year period as we have conversations around planning for and responding to sea level rise on the island. It highlights some of the challenges we face, but more importantly, shows us how a small, yet engaged community can lead the way to planning for change.