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| (Photo by the University of Maine) |
ORONO – A satellite image recorded Monday at the University of Maine after the remnants of Hurricane Irene passed over northern New England the day before shows unusually high amounts of river discharge and suspended sediment in the Gulf of Maine, but UMaine Professor of Oceanography Andrew Thomas says there should be no cause for worry.
The image, which comes from the MODIS instrument aboard a NASA satellite, was recorded midday Monday and processed at the Satellite Oceanography Laboratory in UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences. Thomas, who runs the lab, monitors daily satellite images via a dish on top of Aubert Hall on the UMaine campus.
The image shows the green vegetation on land and much of the darker Gulf of Maine ocean water, which extends south to north from Cape Cod in Massachusetts to southeastern Nova Scotia in Canada, with lighter colored spots along the coast in places where Thomas and his research team normally note clear ocean water.
