How climate change in the previous ice age helps to build the Gulf of Funny Tids

A new Bronze Giosines educator says climate change seems like a contemporary issue, but the Gulf of Funi Tide has roots in changes at the end of the previous ice age about 12,000 years ago.

“Climate change is something that happens again and again,” Katrina Russell said, for the coordinator of education Stonhaimmer Geopark,

“Climate was always changing based on the orientation of the plate tectonics, our continents. So at the end of the last snow, a large amount of water enters the sea with that melting ice, increases sea levels and produces our tides.”

Russell is a researcher and teacher for the 2,500-class-cilomer Geopark in the St. John region of Southern New Brearswick.

He recently made a tour called Rockin Uptown Tour with Jack Quirian, a biologist and coordinator of climate change projects. Acap St. John,

They both try to keep geological and climate science in their historical and contemporary contexts, so that people understand the effects on their lives.

Russell said that the region is still feeling the effects of the end of the age of the final ice, resulting in the growing temperature, both are both man -made climate change and natural changes in the environment.

“What is happening now that we are still at the end of this last snow era, so the temperature is still increasing due to this,” he said. “But what’s happening here we have a lot of rate.”

Russell said that the geology of the region informed the decisions made by earlier generations that now continue to shape the lives of the people living here.

“Everything we do is everything, it shapes our experience,” he said. “They first descend here on this site, they are probably not staying here if it is not for geology for tides.”

For decades, people settled in St. John themselves changed the scenario, inflicted on the waterfront to expand the footprint for the residents and the industry.

“Given how much the landscape has changed in the last 200 years, and thinking about the history of hundreds of millions of years, which has shaped it, it is really interesting,” he said.

The Quirian is particularly interested in the rising levels of the sea and how they will affect those created by natural coastles and infil projects.

St. John is still growing new and there are many current affected by erosion and rising levels.

“I have heard some voices in the respective community, where we are trying hard to develop the waterfront,” the Quirian said.

“We have to be careful that we are not creating things that can eventually end under water.”

ACAP is currently coming up with mitigation strategies to share information in climate change effects within the Stonamemer region, collecting information and sharing with the community.

“We must be looking at preventing erosion or slowing the rate of erosion,” he said. “We are probably looking at some ways that we can address this growing flood which we have to deal with.”

Find natural solutions for erosion and floods

He said that they want people to take action that is good for the residents of the environment and region.

“Many times people would like to put a large rock wall on the beach to prevent erosion and floods,” the Quirian said.

“But it is not necessarily the best idea. If you put a rock wall, it only displaces the effect of that wave for the property of the next door. What we are finding is that there are better solutions using plants, both manufactured infrastructure and nature-based solutions are a combination.”