Friendship, Maine Back River at year's end

Downeast Winter - Friendship, Maine

 

High Tide - Back River

 

Full Moon - Friendship, Maine

 99% ! Rise 4:16 PM

 

Have harp seals blocked cod stock recovery?

https://theconversation.com/are-harp-seals-responsible-for-the-stalled-recovery-of-atlantic-cod-269337?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

Upstream pathways of the Faroe Overflow

If you want to understand climate change you need to follow the waters .. especially the currents of the far north where Greenland. Iceland. and the Faroe Islands are big players 

Dallas Murphy has been there.  This year on a Woods Hole research vessel.

Pickart Lab

Upstream Pathways of the Faroe Overflow (UFO)

2025 Journal Entries from the Field

By Dallas Murphy  

CONTENTS

1. A BEGINNING

2. SOMEWHERE OUT THERE

3. SHIPS IN PURSUIT OF WATER

4. THE PIONEERS. PART ONE.

5. WEATHER

6. THE PIONEERS.  PART TWO.

7. LIFE ABOARD

8. A GAMBLE, ALWAYS A GAMBLE

9. IN HARM'S WAY

10. DISCOVERING WATER

11. WHY

The overflow of dense water across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and its subsequent entrainment, is a fundamental component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which helps maintain Earth’s climate. It is critically important to determine the mechanisms, forcing, and variability of the AMOC. The project entitled “Upstream Pathways of the Faroe Overflow” (UFO) is multi-institutional, interdisciplinary effort to study the origin and pathways of the dense water that feeds the Faroe Bank Channel overflow. This overflow is the densest component of the AMOC and accounts for a significant portion of the composite overflow across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. The UFO program includes a mooring array, gliders, hydrographic surveys, and modeling. Together, this will help determine where the densest water is formed in the Nordic Seas, how this water progresses to the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and how it is modified along the way including the role of atmospheric forcing. This in turn will provide a better understanding of the means by which the warming climate may impact the AMOC.

Oh No- The Big 80!

at Michael's of Brooklyn

The Manhatttan II

Michael's of Brooklyn

Nostrand Ave and R Street

Just a block from Coyle Street where

we lived when I was born in November 1945

 

Rutgers Marine Station faces rising tides

 https://coastalhub.org/2025/08/22/marine-field-station-the-retreat/

Marine Field Station: The Retreat

 August 22,  2025

MACH is proud to announce the completion of our first documentary, Marine Field Station: The Retreat, directed and produced by Thomas Lennon—Academy Award-winning filmmaker, MACH senior personnel member, and head of the Documentary Film Lab at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Marine Field Station: The Retreat is a MACH-supported film that serves the purpose of capturing perspectives on climate change and sharing climate information with a broader audience while simultaneously providing training to the next generation. The film’s production crew was predominantly made up of Rutgers film students who, guided by Lennon, had the opportunity to hone their skills in science-based documentary storytelling while capturing regionally-critical climate adaptation interactions between researchers, stakeholders, and community members.

The documentary features the Rutgers Marine Field Station (RUMFS), a preeminent research facility of  Rutgers  New Jersey Agricultural Research & Education Station (NJAES). RUMFS functions as a central hub for marine and coastal research and also houses the MACH administrative team. 

Click the video link below to watch the film and discover a powerful story of Rutgers’ own resilience and adaptation.

Please follow this link to share your thoughts about the documentary film. This survey should only take a couple of minutes unless you choose to also provide a written review of the film. Thank you.

Two women row 6,900 miles across the Pacific!

 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775109/2025/11/06/british-rowers-pacific-ocean-jess-rowe-miriam-payne/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne

Looking pretty damn good after 165 days at sea.

Six fundamental exercises

 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/well/move/range-of-motion-exercises.html?smid=url-share

exercise alzheimer risk

Topol

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In older adults (mean age 72) with elevated Aβ amyloid, 5,000-7,500 steps/day (&lt;-a plateau) were associated with less Tau accumulation, improved cognition

@naturemedicine.bsky.social 

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GOAT - Ohtani Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats

 In the 150 years that baseball has been played NO ONE hss done what Shohei Ohtani of the LA Dodgers just did.

Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats.

https://x.com/i/status/1979523615436460231

 

RING park ready for Halloween

NR2 hauled ahead of Nor'easter

 NOAA predicts a strong Nor'easter will form, with fifty mph winds and huge seas offshore.  So despite a spare sailing season for me [crocodile tears ...we were in Maine for five weeks] my sister Nancy and I sailed North River 2 around to the east side of City Island where it was ahauled at Barron's boat yard.  The last all sail yard in the Bronx - where America;s Cup contenders once reigned and wer built - like commodore Vanderbilt's Vim, and Ted Turner's Courageous.

 

Vim built by 

Henry B. Nevins, City Island, NY

Courageous - the last City Island, NY built 12 metre

Captain - Ted Turner