10 Ways to Get Ready for Earth Day
April 17, 2024Earth Day is on Monday, April 22, 2024. Here at Friends of Casco Bay, while every day is an opportunity to advocate for and protect clean waters and healthy communities, Earth Day is our reminder that collectively we can take positive actions to help nature and inspire hope. “To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the… Read more
Got Flares? Expired Marine Flare Disposal Day on Saturday, April 13
April 10, 2024If you’re a boater with expired or used marine flares lying around, please don’t toss them in the trash or ocean. Dispose of marine flares properly with the help of the Maine Fire Marshal and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Expired Marine Flare Disposal Day Saturday, April 13 9 a.m.… Read more
Join us for Coffee with the Casco Baykeeper: Eelgrass
April 1, 2024Join us on Thursday, April 25 for our last Coffee with the Casco Baykeeper event of the season. This time we’ll be talking about our eelgrass pilot project. Like coral reefs, eelgrass meadows provide a variety of critical services for our oceans and planet: • Nursery habitat for fish, lobster, horseshoe crabs, and other shellfish •… Read more
10 Things We’ve Learned About PFAS in Casco Bay
March 29, 2024Concerns about PFAS have surfaced as more of Maine’s lands and waters are tested. Before 2023, no one had gathered samples from the marine waters of Casco Bay yet. Last year, Friends of Casco Bay and Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences partnered up to test for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)… Read more
Coffee with the Casco Baykeeper: PFAS video
March 20, 2024In this video from our Coffee with the Casco Baykeeper series, Ivy Frignoca and Community Organizer Sara Freshley have a casual early morning conversation about our partnership with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences to sample for PFAS in Casco Bay. Ivy shares insights from what we learned during our first year of PFAS monitoring in Casco Bay. Sara… Read more
PFAS Sampling Results in Casco Bay
March 15, 2024From the deck of our Casco Baykeeper boat R/V Joseph E. Payne, science staff from our organization and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences collected more than 100 PFAS samples at 18 sites across Casco Bay in 2023. This is the most complete dataset yet of the concentrations of PFAS pollutants, so-called… Read more