Acid Rain and the Effect on Fishing Communities

Using data collected through the EPA long-term monitoring network, Kristin Strock, assistant professor of environmental studies at Dickinson College, discusses research that suggests lakes are recovering rapidly from acid rain effects. In addition to Strock, the research team included Sarah Nelson, assistant research professor with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center and cooperating assistant research professor in Watershed Biogeochemistry in the UMaine School of Forest Resources; Jasmine Saros, associate director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine and professor in UMaine's School of Biology & Ecology; Jeffrey S. Kahl, then-director of environmental and energy strategies at James Sewall Company; and William H. McDowell of the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire.