Preparing Nantucket for Climate Change.
by Dr. Jennifer Karberg, Research Program Supervisor. Nantucket Conservation Foundation
The impacts of climate change: increased sea level rise, increased occurrence of strong storm events, increased and more variable temperature and rainfall, temporal ecological disjuncts (ie plants flowering before their pollinators are around), and changes to natural communities (to name just a few impacts) all feel very immediate and important when you live on an island in the Atlantic Ocean.