Bea Van Dam, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Maine’s School of Earth and Climate Sciences, has created a tool to monitor bacteria and how they can impact shellfish off the coast of Maine.
The interactive “Estuary Builder” GIS mapping tool provides insight into how land-sea connections affect waters and provides data on flows in tidal estuaries.
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