Are there any route mappers that are able to chain bike and bus trips? I was trying to route a trip using bike trails and buses with bike racks along Cape Cod and it wasn’t an easy task. (It also overestimates the time to ride along trails, making bike trips look a lot longer than they really are.) #BikeTooter#bicycle#Provincetown#CapeCod#bus#bikeRack#transit#planning#mapping#BikeNitePQ
"The latest research finds the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global ocean over the past two decades, and has shifted toward the #AtlanticCoast.
"Scientists say the ocean current, which carries tropical water up the #EasternSeaboard, has warmed two degrees Fahrenheit since 2001 and could be pushing warmer water into the #GulfOfMaine.
"Robert Todd, an associate scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said years of data collection confirm what climate models predicted.
"'Long-term ocean observing really is important,' said Todd, 'and we need to keep making those observations so we can understand what’s actually happening in the climate system.'
"Todd said #OceanTemperatures are steadily rising as a result of human activities. He said the findings could determine how changes in the Gulf Stream will impact Maine’s coastal industries.
"The Woods Hole study relied on more than 25,000 ocean temperature and salinity observations collected through the Argo Program — an array of some 4,000 floating robots throughout the global ocean.
"In addition, underwater gliders have slowly navigated the Gulf Stream — revealing warm rings of water, which Todd says could enter the Gulf of Maine and alter marine #environments and species.
"'You can imagine if you have an organism that likes cold water, and suddenly the water is a whole lot warmer because this ring was there,' said Todd, 'those organisms might not be there anymore or might suffer — and then, the fisheries associated with that would suffer.'
"The Gulf of Maine — which stretches from #CapeCod in #Massachusetts to #NovaScotia, #Canada — is already considered one of the fastest-warming ocean regions on the planet.
"Todd said the data collected is shared in real time with scientists around the world."
Excited to announce that my "Wild Parrot" art will be featured in the guest rooms of the new Margaritaville Resort in Cape Cod! A touch of Florida in Hyannis!
UPDATE: We and our partner shelters are extending our fee-waived #GuineaPig adoptathon for an entire week, now through January 14! The decision follows the discovery of 17 little guinea pigs in a box outside our #CapeCod Adoption Center over the weekend 1/
NEW: We’re partnering with several animal welfare orgs to host a fee-waived adoptathon for guinea pigs this weekend–January 5 through 7! The event follows a recent surrender of 55 guinea pigs from a single home to the Animal Rescue League of Boston. We took in 20 of the pets, whose owners purchased guinea pigs from pet stores where they were incorrectly sexed, resulting in many litters 1/