Citizen Science

Since 2016, Frank Distefano aka “Moth Man” has documented moths with photography, contributing the images to a global database of […]

Our science continues, despite many challenges brought on by a global pandemic. Because so many campus events had to be […]

The field season has begun! The Schoodic Institute Science & Education team welcomed two ecology technicians who started work on […]

The foundational work on the Dragonfly Mercury Project was published today in the journal, Environmental Science & Technology, “A national-scale […]

Comparing 2020 warbler arrivals with historic spring arrival dates on the Schoodic Peninsula gleaned from eBird checklists by Seth Benz, […]

by Sarah Hooper and Bill Zoellick During the 2019-20 school year, students from the Pathways Program at Sumner Memorial High […]

by Catherine Schmitt; photo by David Manski Natural stories are for everyone, and we need everyone to help create them. […]

On Friday, March 20, the first day of spring, we launched a six-week challenge to Hancock County residents: contribute observations […]

Photo essay by Paola Vazquez-Gomez, July 2019 As our first Earthwatch team of the season laid out transects for cross-system […]

Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation, which will be released in May, is the first practical and comprehensive […]