The Coastal and Marine Working Group will evaluate and recommend short- and long-term mitigation strategies to reduce gross and net annual greenhouse gas emissions from coastal and marine sectors, as well as evaluate and recommend short- and long-term strategies and actions for adaptation and resiliency to climate change. For meeting details, agendas, minutes, and handouts, please visit our meeting calendar and search for this working group.
Working Group Members
Co-chairs
- Curt Brown, Ready Seafood
- Carl Wilson, Maine Department of Marine Resources
Members
- Susie Arnold, Island Institute
- Bob Baines, Maine Lobstermen's Association
- Josh Beal, independent lobsterman
- Christine Beitl, University of Maine
- Chuck Bennett, independent lobsterman
- Kathleen Billings, Town of Stonington
- Curtis Bohlen, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
- Damian Brady, University of Maine
- Lydia Crafts, Maine State Legislature
- Amy deVries, Cape Elizabeth High School
- Ivy Frignoca, Friends of Casco Bay
- Jeremy Gabrielson, Maine Coast Heritage Trust
- Wendy Garland, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
- Carla Guenther, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries
- Ben Gutzler, Wells National Estuarine Research Preserve
- Dawn Hallowell, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
- Heather Hamlin, University of Maine
- Robert Holmberg, Roger Williams University
- Beverly Johnson, Bates College
- Natalie Johnson, Maine Maritime Academy
- Jessica Joyce, Tidal Bay Consulting / DMR Shellfish Advisory Council
- Marissa McMahan, Manomet
- Gabe McPhail, Resilient Communities, L3C
- Kathy Mills, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
- Marianne Moore, Maine State Legislature
- Bill Needelman, City of Portland
- Anne Langston Noll, Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center
- Rebecca Peters, Maine Department of Marine Resources
- Cameron Reny, Maine State Legislature
- Jocelyn Runnebaum, The Nature Conservancy
- Michelle Staudinger, University of Maine
- Thew Suskiewicz, Atlantic Sea Farms
- Josh Stoll, University of Maine
- Tiffany Strout, Maine State Legislature
- Edge Venuti, Sunrise County Climate Coalition/Maine Youth for Climate Justice
- Jesica Waller, Maine Department of Marine Resources
- Meredith White, Maine Department of Marine Resources
- Lisa White, Maine Department of Marine Resources
- Amy Winston, Coastal Enterprises, Inc
- Gayle Zydlewski, Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine
- Nick Battista, Island Institute
- Ben Martens, Maine Coast Fishermen's Association