This may be why Somes Sound looks green right now

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 27, 2024

The recently greenish waters of Somes Sound have inspired many questions and an occasional joke amongst visitors and residents on Mount Desert Island. Kevin Lachapelle, a Maine Department of Marine Resources specialist, says microbiologist Brianna King has “taken a look under the microscope for phytoplankton and she thinks we may have seen evidence of a bloom of coccolithophores along with unsurprising amounts of some of our usual suspects (pseudonitzschia, scripsiella, dinophysis).”