NOTE: This blog was written by Thew Suskiewicz, a graduate student at Université Laval in Quebec working on a Sea Grant funded project with Dr. Robert Steneck  These are dynamic times for the Gulf of Maine. Over the past decade, water temperatures here have risen faster than almost anywhere on the planet, and already fishermen and researchers are noticing drastic read more Kelps in Hot Water: How are seaweeds responding to a rapidly warming Gulf of Maine?