Dec 31
The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership will soon have an environmental health index (EHI) for the area stretching between the U.S. border and the Musquash Estuary. The aim of the BoFEP project is to establish a baseline from which to monitor environmental shifts and provide researchers and policy makers with a practical measure of ecosystem …
Oct 24
Good Day! The BoFEP Annual General Meeting will be held 1-4 pm on Friday, 20 November in the Jennings Dining Hall Banquet Room, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB. (#25 on the map at http://www.mta.ca/mtamap/). The guest speakers will be Scott Kidd who will speak about the OHI (Ocean health Index) project that BoFEP is currently …
Aug 24
A long term goal of BoFEP has been to produce an environmental health index (EHI) for the Bay of Fundy. A 2012-2013 BoFEP project, including a workshop held in St. Andrews in April 2013, determined that the Ocean Health Index (OHI) (www.oceanhealthindex.org) offered a good model for an EHI for the Bay of Fundy. Now …
Jun 14
One hundred years of monitoring in the St. Croix Estuary provides insight into the decade to decade changes in sea surface temperature and surface salinity, helping researchers to better understand the timing of these seasonal cycles and how this might affect the dozens of plankton species inhabiting the area. A research project to review the …
May 08
Summary of a Talking Circle, April 27, St. Andrews, NB On April 27, fourteen people gathered in St. Andrews, NB to discuss what the 100-year plankton sampling program at a monitoring site in the St. Croix Estuary shows us about the health of the estuary. This was part of a BoFEP project entitled “St. Croix …
Apr 24
100 years of plankton in the St. Croix Estuary—that has been the topic of a project BoFEP has undertaken in cooperation with SAABS. These samples are an important record of this critical food source for Alewives, Herring, and other plankton feeders including a variety of whales. On Monday, April 27, we will be discussing what …
Mar 30
BoFEP Advocacy Policy (As adopted at the 24 May 2013 Steering Committee Meeting) The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BoFEP) recognizes that advocacy can be an important tool used in support of the conservation of the Bay of Fundy ecosystem. Through our collective expertise, experience and perspectives, BoFEP has valuable insights to contribute to dialogue …
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